If we decriminalized drugs, New Jersey could save $1B a year | Opinion

Decriminalization savings could also be used to repair the communities ravaged by the racist Drug War

Dr. Michele Naples, a professor of economics at The College of New Jersey, says her new study confirms that decriminalizing drugs in New Jersey would release millions of dollars each year for proactive solutions to address addiction and public health.For more than 20 years, New Jersey has tinkered around the edges of de-escalating the Drug War.

to think of Black and Hispanic men as criminals. While the state made racial profiling an indictable offense in 2003, we still see disproportionate arrests and prosecutions of Black and Hispanic people. Gov. Christie Whitman promoted drug courts as an alternative to incarceration and to cut costs. Her parole commissioner accelerated parole grants, but the extent of incarceration

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