Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark is the latest public figure to slam the “war on drugs.” As reported by Huffington Post, Booker described the war on drugs as ineffective it

“represents big overgrown government at its worst.”

“The so called War on Drugs has not succeeded in making significant reductions in drug use, drug arrests or violence,” the Democrat wrote during the Reddit “ask me anything” chat. “We are pouring huge amounts of our public resources into this current effort that are bleeding our public treasury and unnecessarily undermining human potential.”

Booker then called drug arrests a “game.”