Those who care so much about tax dollars, hold on to your seats. I've got some startling news. It's been escalating every year since the early 1970s. It hasn't made a dent. Drug use remains at an all-time high.
Addiction continues to pervade America.
Pushers and dealers operate in and out of the jails. One-fourth of the two million inmates in American prisons are directly convicted of drug violations. While the U.S. boasts 5 percent of the world's population, we incarcerate 25 percent of the world's prison inmates. The land of the free. Add that to the costs of parole and probation, social services and medical expenditures, lost lives and broken families who suffer because their loved ones are in graves or prisons cells.