More people are in jail for drugs than for driving drunk...yet more people drive drunk and impose a greater potential threat on the lives of others than simple recreational drug users.
Quote from Mercor:
Back 20 years DUI in most states was not even a felony.
Many times ,I recall , police would just make everybody pour out the beer then they would let you go.
It was Reagon and the republicans who started the movement to be tougher on crime. That has saved 1000's of lives. Of course the liberals always complain about the prisions.