sweet land of liberty

"The United States has 5 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population. We rank first in the world in locking up our fellow citizens," said Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, which supports alternatives in the war on drugs.

We now imprison more people for drug law violations than all of western Europe, with a much larger population, incarcerates for all offenses.