Respect: I am writing out of Germany and really was impressed how you worked off point for point the issues surrounding this immense problem. The War on Drugs should probably be stopped in the U.S. and up until recently if I am informed correctly the prisons were or are still operated by private firms making a good profit. One of the Congress women that was also involved with the Wellsfargo Bank Problem seems to want to take back control of the Prisons. This might be the first step towards Ending the War on Drugs forcing the prison firm operators to change their business plan. One would still need a discussion over which drugs should be legalized and maybe which not. Imagine though if things would change overnight. What kind of chaos would you have with all these people being free all of a sudden. We in Germany are having a hard time integrating 800 000 refugees all of a sudden. The infrastructure behind all of this has to be managed in real-time because no one had an emergency plan set up for this case. On the other hand we didn't have one for the reunification of East and West Germany either and managed to get through it. How many million would the U.S. have to deal with? At least you would not have a Language and cultural problem to deal with. Good Article.