re: California took a big step in rolling back the War on Drugs, Prison Overcrowding

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So now the pendulum swings the other way. Crime is at its max when sentencing is lax and inconsistent leading to three strikes. Crime declines consistently since its passage and now people are crying about unfair incarceration leading to a loosening of sentencing. Crime will go up, rinse repeat.

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The point of the proposition went over your head.

It's like you don't get why or are ignoring why prohibition in the 20s was an utter failure of epic proportions and not applying the historical lessons to today's times with the War on Drugs.

The WOD has harmed everybody; taxpayers paying for an ever increasing prison state that rivals only a select few countries for the biggest in the world, it's harmed the black community and taken away male guidance away from impressionable youths over simple drug indiscretions, reduced and eroded civil liberties and expanded and increased the police state into a reality where SWAT is literally being used for anything at all.

I hope California's proposition is a model to follow for the rest of the country going forward.