The War on Drugs has several problems… we can look at it from a ‘State’s Rights’ perspective, and ask what the hell the federal government thinks its doing. We can examine it from a bureaucratic perspective, and ask why non addictive, non-lethal drugs are equated with highly addictive and deadly drugs. We can look at the international aspects and see yet more waste and failures there.
On top of all of that, we get to see cancer patients handcuffed to beds, for using a pain killer. Sadly, this BS has been equally perpetrated by both the Left and the Right, with the Gipper himself as culpable for a heck of a lot of the mess. In nations where drug use is legal, the numbers aren’t worse than they are here. In some cases, they’re far less.
I don’t think prohibition is the solution. I live in a medium sized town in the Midwest and I could get my hands on pretty much any illicit substance I wanted within a couple hours, for a pretty decent price. That fact alone means that the Drug War is a bust… decades into it and access to drugs is now as easy if not perhaps even more simple than it was in the 80′s. So more Government Waste, more Government Controls and more Personal Restrictions (all for naught)… and most of the support is actually among the Right Wing, rather than the socialist left.
Sometimes, I think I’m taking crazy pills….
