( The state )has a budget hammer and regulatory power. Are they using it to the best effect?

California has the highest per capita rate of incarceration of any state - or it did until Proposition 36.

Proposition 36 is tremendously successful at saving lives, at saving money, at keeping families together and at turning people into taxpayers instead of tax users. It is not a silver bullet. But nothing better has been proposed by anyone.

We would like to see it picked up in other states, but we don't necessarily have millions on hand to run voter initiatives, and not every state has voter initiatives.

The power of using the menus, is that you can take that relationship from the 1950s to today and extend it back 100 years in time.

I wouldn't call it religion. I call it a conscious contact with my Higher Power. I choose to call him God. I used to call him Glenn, but that used to piss him off!