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Harm Reduction Journal BioMedCentral Research Open Access The war on marijuana: The transformation of the war on drugs in the 1990s Ryan S King* and Marc Mauer Address: The Sentencing Project, 514 10th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA. Email: Ryan S King* - rking@; Marc Mauer - mauer@ * Corresponding author Published: 09 February 2006 Received: 20 September 2005 Accepted: 09 February 2006 Harm Reduction Journal2006, 3:6 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-3-6 This article is available from: /content/3/1/6 ? 2006King and Mauer; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background:As the war on drugs enters the latter half of its third decade since being forged into the American lexicon by President Ronald Reagan, the public has grown more skeptical of the current strategy and has proven to be receptive to a broader consideration of alternatives to incarceration. This has been the case most notably with marijuana offenses, where the policy discussion has shifted in some localities to one of decriminalization or de-prioritizing law enforcement resources dedicated to pursuing possession offenses. Despite the increased profile surrounding marijuana policy in recent years, there remains a significant degree of misunderstanding regarding the current strategy, both in terms of how resources are being allocated and to what eventual gain. Methods:Previous studies have analyzed drug offenses as a general category, but there has yet to be a single study that has focused specifically on marijuana offenders at all stages of the system. This report analyzes multiple sources of data for the period 1990–2002 from each of the critical points in the