The Drug War has not only been hurting the individuals of the United States, but the economy as well, forcing taxpayer money to be used in unfavorable ways. As mentioned above, the US has spent over 1 trillion dollars on fighting the drug war, but we have only confiscated 12 billion dollars of drugs (COHA). New York spends an average of 60,000 dollars per inmate, but only around 18,000 on students. New Jersey spends over 50,000 dollars per inmate and around 15,000 on each student. California spends around 47,000 dollars on each inmate and less than 10,000 dollars on students. Many other states have similar situations, where the money spent on maintaining inmates only, not even the prison facilities or ways of detainment, is over 3 times the
