This book was difficult to read. Repetitive and verging on strident. And sometimes it was hard to tell whether she was stating facts or opinions. One of us did some research and found some rebuttals to the book that claimed that her statistics were off - that nearly everyone in prison was convicted of crimes of violence. None of which detracts from the fact (opinion?) that the war on drugs has been a colossal failure, or excuses the fact that enforcement is focused so strongly on minorities, and largely ignoring drug use by whites.