Michael Albert Bush is apoplectic. Bush says we must wage war on the drug scourge. He tells us he wants to lead the charge. Bush has one thing right. Many people are being destroyed by addictive drugs that cause spiritual, mental, and material debilitation.
Addictions do wreak havoc on friends, relatives, and workmates.
They do induce criminal behavior to pay the piper. However, determining just which drugs to wage war on presents more of a problem than Bush allows. They don't reduce competence or induce violence like alcohol, but if you add up all the smoke-induced cancers and cardiac arrests, they do plenty of harm. In a serious discussion of addictions, certainly we ought to assess whether Peter Jennings or Alf belong in the drug category. Between you and me, Bush is no dummy.