In the United States today, mandatory sentencing laws are being questioned, due to prison overcrowding and controversy about the ethics of convicting non-violent drug users

moxnews.com March 08, 2010 CNN An often overlooked argument against prohibition is the inevitable increase in potentially dangerous impurities that distribution through criminal networks entails although this is mainly relevant to hashish and, of course, other illegally manufactured drugs and the health hazards and their costs that these impose