With more than 2 million people locked up, the U.S.
prison population is now the largest in the world, much of it the
result of the war on drugs. At over 700 per 100,000 residents, for
example, the U.S. incarceration rate is more than seven times higher
than the rate of incarceration in Germany or France. On top of the
price of inequitable enforcement and the $33 billion that the U.S.
government is spending annually to enforce drug prohibition, Miron
contends that the war on drugs has been more effective in fostering
corruption among public officials than in reducing drug consumption. [more]
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