A lot of people, including a lot of Conservatives, want a (drug) war, and they’re getting it. That war kills a lot more people than the drugs do, and it kills a lot of freedoms too. The Great American Police State has largely been enabled by the drug war, to say nothing of violence in Mexico and in America.
Good clip from Miami Vice. Ted Nugent as the bad guy. Godley and Creme sing ‘Cry”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkyVjFAHFI8