[liberty2004]

The WOD can't be won.

Correct. Milton Friedman had a brilliant writing illustrating the futility of the War on Drugs. I believed he penned it shortly after Nixon stated the idiotic War on Drugs. All the bad consequences he wrote about have come true. Stossel hits another one out the park.

[ran15]

Milton Friedman and others who think like him, called exactly how the drug war would turn out. More crime, more prisons, bigger government, less rights for individuals, and drugs as available as ever.

The drug warriors remind of communists. They both imagine a utopian world, if just the state can intervene, with the ends justifying the means.. and oh yes they won't screw up like the last communists did.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Nixon was more successful than any president after him in battling illegal narcotics. In Turkey he created a model program to persuade poppy farmers to grow alternative crops. He developed a massive anti-drug education program aimed at elementary school age children. He founded the DEA. He funded drug and alcohol treatment facilities. The difference between the Nixon era drug war and today's drug war is that the Nixon Administration spent 25 cents of each WOD dollar on enforcement/interdiction and 75 cents on education and treatment. Today 75 cents goes to enforcement/interdiction and 25 cents goes to treatment/education.

[truemiester]

Close the border. Stop most Cocaine and Heroin from coming in. Meth and pot will still be produced locally.

Plus we get great buys at police auctions from druggies who like big houses, bid cars, boats, planes all at rock bottom prices!!!!