My first question to you is whether drug addiction is higher today because the population is also.
You say that the WOD is doomed just as the WOP was. You are wrong. Poverty still exists, and it will exist for more generations regardless of the now defunct LBJ approach. LBJ's policies increased poverty by encouraging people to have babies, seperate from their fathers, and live off of someone else's money, while many of them went on drugs.
Murder and theft is outlawed but it doesn't mean that it is hopeless to keep the law against it on the books just because someone will commit that crime again in the future. the WOD is the same - even though it is not a panacea. Its hard for small timers to understand how potent these legal restrictions really are.
The addiction rate for opiates and cocaine in 2000 is a little over 3X the rate in 1900, according to USDOJ figures.
You say that the WOD is doomed just as the WOP was.
Since the WOD was made a cabinet level priority, drugs have become purer and cheaper, while demand has increased to some extent. I'd call that a failed big government program.
Here is a link to a collection of SAHMSA data on supply and demand since the early 1980's.
Poverty still exists, and it will exist for more generations regardless of the now defunct LBJ approach. LBJ's policies increased poverty by encouraging people to have babies, seperate from their fathers, and live off of someone else's money, while many of them went on drugs.
I agree. But you are on the same side as LBJ and the Liberals in your view of the general Welfare Clause. You have no principled constitutional argument against the Great Society. You already gave it up.