“Let’s face it: the U.S. is just a druggie nation”
Not possible without large measure of official corruption.
When the keyboard libertarians argue for drug legalization they are willfully blind to the results of a self indulgent society that will not curb its appetites for its own good and that of the next generation.
The War On Drugs has not demonstrably curbed any appetites - but it has hyperinflated drug profits and channeled those profits into criminal and terrorist hands.