It’s time to end the failed war on drugs
• www.telegraph.co.ukOver the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion has been spent fighting this battle, and all we have to show for it is increased drug use, overflowing jails, billions of pounds and dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted, and thriving crime syndicates. It i




The "war on drugs" is really a war on the constitution. The constitution says "insure domestic tranquility" the war on drugs cause an increase in the murder rate (80% in the 1920s) and it corrupts law enforcement. (Remember the untouchables?)
How about the wasted lives of agents and cops who put it on the line and were sold out? (It's likely to be a long time before we see an end to this contrived "cash cow"!)
Seeing as how most of the sick, social engineering fools who "wrote the book" on the supposed drig war have died, after making what they perceived as "careers" out of a non-existent problem have since died, we should move on to the real problems that face our culture.
Not only would most of the so-called problem go away, we'd save untold billions on phony enforcement and other criminal justice expeditures...Prisons!