It has been lost. People are going to use drugs. It is a natural tendency. Everybody does it. They have a right to do it.
Nobody can stop it.
But they keep trying to stop it anyway, and the result is that people like my client give in to temptation. They become smugglers in spite of themselves. He had to. The men he murdered were also casualties of the ill-conceived, wasteful and destructive War on Drugs. The U.S. Government might as well have put them up against the wall and pulled the trigger itself.