In the name of the War on Drugs police forces throughout the nation become corrupt, and in the name of the War on Drugs some of the best and the brightest of our inner-city young people get drawn into a criminal subculture that affects their attitudes on not just drugs, but education, the family, civility itself. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on the War on Drugs and yet, drugs are available everywhere. Across the street from the White House. Across the street from the Cato Institute. Even in prisons.
Interdiction is a joke.
Drug use by adults is a problem. It is time to deal with that problem in an open, honest and mature manner. Not by forcing users underground. Not by creating turf wars where innocent children get shot. Not by destroying families by jailing peaceful citizens with lengthy, minimum mandated sentences.