Prop. 36 is California’s light at the end of a crime-ridden tunnel: Now we need to fund it.

Orange County drug dealer James Lee Studdert’s rap sheet is 97 pages long.

In just the last five years, 54-year-old Studdert has racked up 86 prior drug convictions. Studdert has five prior strikes for residential burglary under California’s Three Strikes Law. He’s been to jail. He’s been to prison. 

But he hasn’t stayed there – and he hasn’t stopped committing crimes.

Two days before Christmas, Studdert was arrested again for drugs. He had a $5 bag of methamphetamine and a meth pipe on him...