The Million Man March on Washington, a largely middle-class gathering, left tormenting questions about the black underclass. If we are prepared to look past shibboleths, one answer should come to mind. That is to end the so-called war on drugs.
Drugs are terrible.
But it is not drugs that have done the real damage to our society. It is the misbegotten effort to use the criminal law against them. We tried Prohibition to end alcohol abuse. It brought so much crime that we quickly gave up the Noble Experiment. Prohibition of drugs began in 1915.