Free our Low-level, Non-violent Prisoners Now

It is high time to free all of our LOW LEVEL - NON VIOLENT PRISIONERS! We are talking about drug and alcohol offenders who would never think of hurting another human being. Alcohol is a legal addictive substance that if you drink to much and drive, you eventually end up in jail. Many people are killed because of drunk drivers and something should be done. Why not help these people who are addicted to alcohol rather than send them to jail? The government makes billions of dollars off of us as tax payers to incarcerate people. It costs us as tax payers $25,000 per year to keep one (1) person incarcerated per year. That breaks down to an astonishing $4,500 per household, per year. They say by the end of this year many thousands more will be incarcerated so that $4,500 per household will become an even greater amount. To touch on the subject of our drug offenders, instead of giving them help for their addiction, they throw them in jail. Let's take our marijuana users for example. Now keep in mind that alcohol is a legal substance that can change a persons personality, kills people by eating their liver away and many people die each year from a drunk driver. While under the influence (and this is putting it a bit harshly) of marijuana, a persons personality changes for the better, people aren't killed in car accidents, and there are no known cases of lung cancer from smoking marijuana like thousands of cases of lung cancer from smoking cigarettes which is also a legal addictive substance. I have many friends who smoke marijuana and swear that they would be on Prozac if it weren't for their pot. I am on Prozac to keep my sanity. Marijuana will never be legalized because the government controls each and every hemp farm. Any products made from hemp such as rope that all branches of the service use, puts much money in the governments pockets. Anything made from hemp is money in the governments pockets. Each and every prison they build incarcerates more and more of our people, which is more and more money in the governments pockets. The US has more prisoners than Russia and Russia's prisoners are of the violent status. 80% of our prisoners are of the non-violent status, and this is supposed to be a free country! The American dream is to own a little piece of land and a home to live. You don't really own it because if the government wants to take your land for anything, such as building a new prison, they simply take it. You must by law obtain a building permit to build a shed on your own property and then you are taxed for it. You must have your ground approved for a septic system and if it doesn't meet the governments standards, your property is considered condemned. The township where I live also must approve a septic system but you are allowed to dig a hole in the ground and sit an out house on top of it and use it as your bathroom. If you don't pay the taxes on the property you own, the government takes it. You can't grow marijuana (which is a natural herb and proven to be a medicinal herb) on your own property, or you go to jail. From the beginning of time the male gender has physically fought for whatever reason. I agree that nothing is solved by physical violence but now you go to jail for it. Every day more and more of our rights are being taken away, and we sit back and allow it to happen. What has happened to the American backbone? We are brainwashed into believing that we live in a free country so therefore we believe it and we sit back and do nothing. If you have any money to invest in the stock market, invest in the prison industry because more and more of us will become incarcerated. I find it a sad country when by the end of this year, our prisons will break the numbers of all nations of incarcerated human beings. I ask you to please sign my petition and take the first step in standing up for your rights and the rights of our low level - non violent citizens that are incarcerated and cannot stand up for themselves.