And where you are seems extremely insane. Literally every adult I know has done an illegal drug at some point.

The United States incarceration rate is 4x higher than of the rest of the world, in part because it hands out much longer sentences than most other countries. You're not wrong, but it's still the US that is the outlier in terms of sentence lengths [1].

[1]: https://counciloncj.org/new-analysis-shows-u-s-imposes-long-...

The US is wholly inefficient with the Death Penalty, so I'm against it from a purely financial point of view. By the time many cases get to a point of being convicted they will have already served years, maybe even a few decades in prison already.

And yes, there is the open secret that the US uses its prison system as a form of soft slave labor. Many people don't want to reduce that supply.

That one's easy. Don't sell drugs in Singapore. Give them away and then the recipients accidentally drop money a block or so away.