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Yep, good luck with that for the next 4 years.

I'd wager a guess Trump snorted his share of blow in the 1980s, but congressional republicans and the private prison industry are going to be calling the shots on the drug war for the next 4 years.

Private prisons are being phased out: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37124183

Only at the federal level, which is a much smaller portion of the prisons in the us. From the first thing I found, there are more people simply sitting in a jail waiting for trial than there are in federal prisons [1].

Which is an issue considering the lobbying the businesses do [2] - they are very much invested in keeping their businesses going and keeping folks in jail.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison#Lobbying

A man who literally said the worst thing about the KKK was that they smoke weed.

https://www.facebook.com/int19h/posts/10209935398253997