Tremendous deduction Sherlock...
Still...I'm always happy to have a new member. Christie takes the pragmatic approach expected...and that's OK. It simply costs too much to house drug users in prison.
btw, NJ passed a medical marijuana law two years ago...but no patient can buy medical marijuana there yet.
"The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure," Christie said Monday during a speech at The Brookings Institution. "We're warehousing addicted people everyday in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment."...
...Perhaps to blunt conservative criticism of the cost of such a program to the state, Christie argued in favor of the economics of drug treatment over incarceration.
"It costs us $49,000 a year to warehouse a prisoner in New Jersey state prisons last year," Christie said. "A full year of inpatient drug treatment costs 24,000 a year."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/chris-christie-drugs-war-on-drugs_n_1659687.html
Still...I'm always happy to have a new member. Christie takes the pragmatic approach expected...and that's OK. It simply costs too much to house drug users in prison.
btw, NJ passed a medical marijuana law two years ago...but no patient can buy medical marijuana there yet.
"The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure," Christie said Monday during a speech at The Brookings Institution. "We're warehousing addicted people everyday in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment."...
...Perhaps to blunt conservative criticism of the cost of such a program to the state, Christie argued in favor of the economics of drug treatment over incarceration.
"It costs us $49,000 a year to warehouse a prisoner in New Jersey state prisons last year," Christie said. "A full year of inpatient drug treatment costs 24,000 a year."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/chris-christie-drugs-war-on-drugs_n_1659687.html
