[Reagan Man]

>>>... the War on Drugs is an abject failure.

The American people overwhelming support interdiction and incarceration as the best remedies to control and reduce the spread of illegal drugs in America today. (Pew Survey, Feb.2001) The efforts by America's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is working well. Could it be better? Yes. But the legalization of illicit substances like marijuana, cocaine and heroin is not the answer. Increased law enforcement efforts are the answer. Education and drug treatment are also part of the equation. We have enough problems with alcohol in our society and shouldn't be opening the flood gates to drug legalization.

[patdor]

We have enough problems with alcohol in our society

And a great many of them are caused not by drugs, but by the war on drugs.

[Pahuanui]

The American people overwhelming support interdiction and incarceration as the best remedies to control and reduce the spread of illegal drugs in America today. (Pew Survey, Feb.2001)

So these are the same folks who pass state ballot measures liberalizing, and in some cases legalizing drugs, who are 'overwhelmingly' supportive of interdiction?

The efforts by America's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is working well. Could it be better? Yes. But the legalization of illicit substances like marijuana, cocaine and heroin is not the answer. Increased law enforcement efforts are the answer. Education and drug treatment are also part of the equation. We have enough problems with alcohol in our society and shouldn't be opening the flood gates to drug legalization.

Yes, decrim and possibly legalization are the answers. I work in law enforcement, and know from daily experience that your answers are not answers at all.

[unixfox]

Increased law enforcement efforts are the answer.

Right, let's give them even MORE power over us, and even MORE control over every aspect of our lives. It's for our own good, and besides the government needs more employees to look over us. (rolling eyes)

[philman_36]

We have enough problems with alcohol in our society and shouldn't be opening the flood gates to drug legalization.
So should we try for repeat performance of the 18th Amendment? If one is banned then what is good for the goose is good for the gander!

Let's do it! Let's write our representatives, fight against the huge financial resources of the alcohol industry with miniscule funds, write petitions, get major organizations to sign on touting our agenda, ask for more laws instead of constitutional amendments...

WHOA...deja vu!

[dcwusmc]

If you don't believe that free people, armed with the truth, can make good decisions for themselves, then our Republic is as good as dead.

[Conservative til I die]

The American people overwhelming support interdiction and incarceration as the best remedies to control and reduce the spread of illegal drugs in America today. (Pew Survey, Feb.2001)

You responded specifically to the man's point that "the War on Drugs is an abject failure" with this statement. I don't see how the popularity of a policy correlates to its success or failure.

You also realize that a majority of the electoral college elected and re-elected someone like Bill Clinton and that 150 years ago, an entire region of the country supported slavery, right?

Sometimes the majority of the people are wrong.

[tdadams]

The efforts by America's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is working well... Increased law enforcement efforts are the answer.

Statements like that make me wonder what you're smoking.

How much more do you suggest we do to combat drugs? Would another $100 billion a year be worth it? How about another four million prison inmates? Would that be sufficient?