Of course this is another fake US war.  Cocaine by itself brings the international banking community more revenue than crude oil, for some decades now.  Remember when crack became the most addictive drug in history of man.  Now it is crank, or maybe I quit keeping up.  Speed Kills was posted in the sixties all over Berkeley, and the Haight/Ashbury, ho hum.  This is general ongoing ruses from the market men, the protected men. What had freaked these bedeviled enemies of humanity, these politicians, were the drugs which awakened thought, marijuana and the psychedelics, and which were/are not addictive nor do bodily harm.  Interesting how every time some jerk came up with claim of harm of marijuana nobody was studying populations on Earth who have been smoking pot for generations or thousands of years, start with the Kalahari bushmen who can run down antelope, or just start somewhere, the world of man is wide, ancient. Then, the psychedelics, all which exist in plants, LSD etc.,relate to the lesser known history of humans, and these plants are singular, but related ,individual complexity of plant, or compounds which generally go with adrenalin.  One who meditates may use LSD and actually sleep, dream, because, such a one understands he/she is in no flight/fight. Except, perhaps, in the fact one is then illegal.... This is a small example - these approaches wait for a developed humanity, alive without governmental danger.  Today scientists hither thither do know of this potential,potential unlimited as the human is unlimited, but they are generally staying quiet.
We need a better time.  Maybe, could we expose the 9/ll coverup, we could break free....What reverberations then, no telling....

legalize, educate, and regulate. Reference studies on the benign effects of such policy in Amsterdam. (The REAL studies, not the ones funded by people who want to change the laws back.)

People have been taking drugs for millenia.  Whether for solace or pain, people, always resouceful, have found them accidentally in their gardens or grown them in their window boxes. 

Big pharma comes along and you-know-what hits the fan.  Big pharma is in the business of convincing us that we need their drugs - for solace, pain, or to subdue our twitching legs.  Big pharma is the pusher for profit behind the political gimmick, the War on Drugs.

The answer’s easy: Bring back Laudanum. Make it dirt-cheap. If you wanna get high, that’ll be 25 cents, please. Just don’t drink and drive. LOL

As long as Conservatives are being enabled to make tax-free money off illegal drugs, you will become an enabler urselves, of domestic terrorists who are making war on the masses in America. It makes me sick to think of senators who pass laws against the stuff and then make money off protecting it, PLUS the money for prisons and most likely kick-backs from prison owners.  Zena

It’s not a war on ‘drugs’. It has been, and IS a war on Americans. It’s especially become clear since they are still making little effort to get Mexican citizens out of our country…
Zena

The war on drugs has a failed policy similar to the failed policy of the war in Iraq. It’s a failed money pit that will never end. The failed war on drugs started under Ronald Racist I mean Reagan as a means to incarcerated thousands of poor and minorities who don’t have access to decent attorneys or drug treatment. This policy has resulted in the incarceration of over two million Ameericans. We now have the highest prison population in the entire world. Our invasion of Afganistan has allowed it to become the world’s greatest supplier of heroin which supports the terrorists. Great Job Bush!
The real reason America won’t change the policy has nothing to do with morality,which America has very little of these days,but what I call the criminal justice economy,which supplies jobs for Police,Attorneys,Judges,and Correctional Officers.Think about the jobs lost if the prison population was cut in half and if drug addiction was treated as a health problem rather than a criminal justice problem. Also a lot of countries that supplies the worlds illegal drugs are allies of the U.S.Mexico,South America,
Turkey, Afganistan,Jamaica,along with many others.  We loan these countries money and sell them weapons to uphold their regimes based on drug profits. The poor and minorities who are incarcerated do not bring these drugs into this country. The drugs just wind up in their communities. That’s why the war on terror and Homeland Security is a bunch of bullshit. If the terrorist can bring billions of dollars worth of drugs into this country undetected, Don’t you think they could smuggle weapons into this country undetected that could kill us?

Drugs, Drug Wars, and Smuggling are fueled by their black markets, which are infinitely worse.  If people can drink booze and ride motorcycles, why can’t others name their own poisons?  Black markets give rich Republicans and lower middle class thieves something to do.

Carl Sagan. Andy Williams. Cary Grant. The Beatles. Louis Armstrong. Bill Walton. Bill Lee.
Ani DeFranco. Bobby Hackett. Robert Crumb....
Would you rather that these folks had spent their lives sober in prison ?

I don’t know about other countries but the U.S. will never win the “War on Drugs” because there will always be a demand for illegal drugs. No one seems to be addressing the issue of why there continues to be such a demand for illegal drugs. Granted, there is a ton of money to be made selling illegal drugs but why do illegal drug users continue to want them? I think it is going to take more than Anti-Drug laws and NARCs to answer this question.

There is no war on drugs.

A kind of “enemy from within” !