Actually, legalizing drugs will cause social costs to skyrocket, with increases in homelessness, unemployment, lost productivity, medical care costs, accidents, crime, school dropouts, chronic mental illness, and child neglect. Our new president must change attitudes about drugs, starting with White House staff and then across this country. Too many parents are in denial about drug use. Too many politicians consider the problem merely a nuisance rather than a national crisis. We need a national strategy that attacks the problem at its roots, with emphasis on the Colombian and Mexican drug quagmire.
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It does not glamorize drugs and should frighten every American. Maginnis is retired from the U.S. Army and now serves as the Family Research Council s vice president for policy. He is a member of the National Parents Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, which advises the nation s drug czar.