I don’t usually quote heavily from articles as I expect everyone is bright enough to read on their own…but this is information I feel you need to see, as I see the same lies Hillary and Bernie tout all over this site.  

“The statement that the prison population is mostly low-level marijuana offenders is utterly totally bogus; there is not a shred of validity in it,” said Jonathan Caulkins, a public policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mr. Caulkins said that while 20 percent of the U.S. prison population is incarcerated for drug convictions, less than 10 percent of those are for marijuana. The other 90 percent deal with cocaine, methamphetamine or heroin violations.

“And of the marijuana violators, the people in prison for that reason in particular, they basically are never there for simple possession,” Mr. Caulkins said. “You can go to prison if you possess 5 tons of marijuana, but that’s not personal possession. Most of these offenders are there because they broke parole or were also charged with drug trafficking and production.”

And before you ask, if you continue reading, you’ll see this is of FEDERAL AND STATE PRISONS.

So Libertarians, would you like to rework you arguments on the relationship between the war on drugs and prison populations?