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77 Ohio St. L.J. 1323 (2016)
Drug Truce

handle is hein.journals/ohslj77 and id is 1355 raw text is: Drug Truce ALEX KREIT* After enjoying nearly universal support from elected officials for decades, the war on drugs is under attack. Prominent politicians from across the ideological spectrum have started to call for an end to the war on drugs. New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie pledged to end the failed war on drugs in his second inaugural address. President Barack Obama's first drug czar went so far as to claim that the administration had already certainly ended the drug war. But what does an end to the war on drugs really mean? Although some people might equate it with legalization, both Christie and Obama oppose legalizing even marifuana. Scholars have critiqued specific components of the drug war since it began. There is also a rich literature debating the relative merits of legalization and prohibition. But the question of what separates the drug war from non-war prohibition has been almost completely overlooked This Article aims to help fill this gap by plotting out a drug war exit strategy. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ................................... .....1324 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DRUG WAR .............. ......1328 III. THE LINE BETWEEN DRUG WAR AND DRUG TRUCE..................1335 A. Rhetoric and Ideology...........................1336 B. Arrests ................................ .......1339 C. Incarceration .....................................1340 D. Racial Disparities ...............................1342 IV. TOWARD A DRUG TRUCE ........................... .....1344 A. Current Reform Efforts.............. ..... ........1345 B. Arrests ................................ .......1349 C. Incarceration ..................................1356 D. Racial Disparities .......................... .....1364 E. Principles of a Drug Truce ......................1369 * Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center for Criminal Law and Policy, Thomas Jefferson School of Law. I am grateful to the participants in the Vanderbilt University Law School Drug Law and Policy Roundtable and the Southwest Criminal Law Workshop at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law for their valuable feedback. Thanks are due in particular to Shima Baradaran Baughman, Jason Bates, Doug Berman, Jon Caulkins, Jack Chin, Beth Colgan, Dan Epps, Jeff Fagan, Reid Finlayson, Carl Hart, Angela Hawken, Carissa Hessick, E. Lea Johnston, Sam Kamin, Beau Kilmer, Andrew Chongseh Kim, Ben Levin, Ion Meyn, Rob Mikos, Eric Miller, Michael O'Hear, Rosalie Pacula, Sachin Patel, John Pfaff, and Meghan Ryan.

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