Comment: Now that rural white people are the majority of opiate drug addicts,  mass incarceration is not the answer to the problem. Who says race doesn't effect public policy in the 21st century? BTW, marijuana is a reasonable alternative for treatment of pain. No one is dying from weed. But that would take away a tool to control minorities with police violence. That was why weed was made illegal in the 1st place. Enter Jeff Sessions, the white racist Attorney General. He is willing to sacrifice some poor white people to keep a tool to use against minorities.