When Prohibition was repealed, machine gun battles between rival bootlegging gangs vanished. Widespread corruption of policemen and judges ended. And millions of otherwise decent Americans were no longer forced to break the law. Alcohol prohibition was a failure.
Drug prohibition is a failure.
I'm astonished the Clinton administration denies this, or refuses to do further studies. Drug-related crime is a national crisis. Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, conservative commentator William F. Buckley, former Secretary of State George Schultz, and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman are a few of the others. This is no longer a radical idea. It's an idea whose time is coming.