The fight against drugs has been lost. Like American generals in Vietnam, they believe they see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Realists know that, rightly or wrongly, the campaign is over.
Imagine a courtroom scene in Oklahoma. The prosecutor is suggesting to the jury the sentence it should recommend for a man who has been found guilty of possession of cannabis. Two hundred years, two thousand years . Put this druggie away and God will bless you all. They did, and Will Foster, a computer software consultant, married with two children, is now serving 93 years for growing marijuana plants for cigarettes to relieve his chronic rheumatoid arthritis.