There is also the prescription drug abuse thing there now, right?
Yes. Addiction is a serious problem here. Prescription and street drugs. I'm hoping that while there is a huge groundswell to change policing that a drug policy change might creep through with it. Identify it as illness rather than crime. I am not holding my breath. What little I have due to smoking :)
I think that the prescription problem is more about social disconnection, ironic as we are the most "connected" we have ever been...