"Clogging our courts and prisons with cases involving..."

"Clogging our courts and prisons with cases involving people found in possession of tiny quantities of prohibited substances, and who have never done any physical harm to anyone, makes it all but impossible to devote the necessary resources to tracking down the violent criminals who really do threaten us.  Over the past two decades more people have been imprisoned on drug offenses than for all violent crimes put together.  And that is not to mention the continued erosion of our civil liberties for which the drug war has been responsible."  -Page 131 of The Revolution, A Manifesto