UCLA issues new report on Prop. 36 / EurekAlert, 14 October 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/uoc--uin101408.php
"The effectiveness of Proposition 36, a ballot measure approved by California voters in 2000 that offers treatment instead of incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders is being undermined by inadequate funding, participants dropping out of treatment, and increased arrests for drug and property crimes. "