Every day you hear or see something to do with the drugs debate. It is one of the great issues of our day, and whatever you think about them, drugs are something that will not go away.
Drugs generate their own economy - that is undeniable.
This is an in-built reason for the impossibility of drugs ever going away. At the same time, two former Baltimore detectives published a book called The Corner, which is a microcosmic study of their city's drug scene. Not with crime summits, or task forces, or committees. Despite such real-life observations, the US government alone still spends billions of dollars on a drug war they can never win. In America, the minds of both the Democrats and the Republicans are closed to the idea of an alternative to the drug war.