Teddy had a point. Yes, the Constitution can be a pain.
Drug laws are a perfect example.
Since then, the war has escalated notwithstanding dubious results. Prisons are filled with non-violent offenders. Nonetheless, drug dependence soars, and drug-related crime represents an increasingly large percentage of all crime. Bluntly speaking, the war is a bust, whatever one thinks about its original intent. Society s answer to this conundrum has been to resurrect property forfeiture laws, a 19th century relic used to seize property of remote wrongdoers, like pirates and slave-traders.