No sarcasm intended this time around. Maybe addicts will finally start getting treatment, rather than becoming part of the nationally disgraceful figure of nearly 1% of the US population kept in prisons. Kudos to a federal Attorney General for "getting it!"

Eric Holder: "widespread incarceration...is both ineffective and unsustainable" - Hit & Run : Reason.com

"Although incarceration has a role to play in our justice system, widespread incarceration at the federal, state and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable," Mr. Holder's speech says. "It imposes a significant economic burden — totaling $80 billion in 2010 alone — and it comes with human and moral costs that are impossible to calculate."