The no-win 'drug war' keeps driving up the price.
Users commit crimes to cover the cost.
The public is the loser. In her assertion that legalizing drugs would markedly reduce crime, Dr. Joycelyn Elders was clearly correct. In asserting that the matter should not even be thought about, the Administration behaved like religious rulers decrying heresy. That drug prohibition is responsible for much of the crime in this country is beyond dispute. Had we fully repealed drug prohibition in 1933, our crime rates today would be no more than half what they now are.