I am struggling to see how concern about the measurable local, state, and national expense (and tangible personal damage) created by incarcerating tens of thousands of non-violent drug users is "abstract." Feel free to explain. By way of comparison, jaywalking is illegal and dangerous. No argument from anyone about that. However, if we were to treat jaywalking as a serious crime, and fill our jails and prisons with jaywalkers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year feeding, clothing, guarding and medicating this class of criminals, would you find concern about this madness "worship of abstract principles of justice"? When something is clearly, obviously, broken, and somebody points this out, how on earth is it "abstract"?
How long until the police state has images on file of all of us jaywalking, so that they have the casus tyrannus to sequester us away once they think we're out of step with their fascist ideologies!?!?!?

I would leverage it, at least.