[right-wing agnostic]

My principal objection to the War on Drugs, announced by President Nixon on June 17, 1971, is that it is unconstitutional. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT does not have the authority to impose the War on Drugs without a constitutional amendment--as happened with the 18th Amendment (ratified-1919, took effect-1920; in effect until its repeal by the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933) As Prohibition (of Alcohol) proved, if you try to make something illegal, it will embolden and strengthen bootleggers (and in the case of the War on Drugs, drug cartels.) The 18th Amendment at least gave the states and the federal government concurrent powers to enforce Prohibition; instead of principally expanding federal power. Since I read the book "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition" by Daniel Okrent a few year ago, I have become much more of a libertarian concerning drugs and alcohol. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 45, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." I think states should be free to legalize marijuana, set their on drink ages, etc. without federal interference or harassment. FYI, I voted for legalization of marijuana when the issue was on the ballot in 2012./rwa

[Resolute Conservative]

We fought it like we have every war since WW2 so we were bound to lose.

[ifinnegan]

Pro-druggers are the biggest liars and liberals there are.

[ifinnegan]

Yes you are a liberal.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The War on Some Drugs was just a prelude to the War on Terror, both of which are intended to eventually negate the bill of rights and the very idea of private property. All the government has to do is whisper “drugs” or “terror” and they can do anything they want to you.

[ConservingFreedom]

Interesting!

"the pharmaceutical cost of cocaine and heroin is approximately 2 per cent of the street price of those drugs. Since a cocaine addict can spend as much as $1,000 per week to sustain his habit, he would need to come up with that $1,000. The approximate fencing cost of stolen goods is 80 per cent, so that to come up with $1,000 can require stealing $5,000 worth of jewels, cars, whatever. We can see that at free-market rates, $20 per week would provide the addict with the cocaine which, in this wartime drug situation, requires of him $1,000."

[Responsibility2nd]

The National Review was leftist from way, way, way back.

If Bill Buckley was alive today, he’d be happy as hell (and stoned to the bone) in Colorado.

[Ken H]

Drug Warriors have really been taking it in the shorts lately.

[aimhigh]

So, we’re supposed to give up on the war on drugs since we’ve lost.
We’ve also lost the war on illegal immigrants.
We’ve lost the wars on murder, rape, theft, assault, speeding cars. I supposed we should just legalize everything because we can’t stop evil.

[lavaroise]

Can we stop the war on poverty and green house gases and what not now?

[gdani]

The War On (Some) Drugs was lost a long time ago.

But those who make money perpetuating it & those who fail to see the harm it's caused to the Fourth Amendment, states' rights & the tax money we have flushed down the toilet delight in keeping it going.

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[greene66]

More like America has lost. Becoming a nation of dopeheads, degenerates and government-dependent wastrels. Add open-borders and a depraved, faggotized culture.

America has devolved into an abject sewer. Its pathetic embrace of dope is but one indicator of its decline and impending death.

[GeronL]

Another reason I gave up on National Review

they are NOT in any way conservative

[gop4lyf]

February 20, 1996. I turned 20 that day. I wish I could tell that feller a few things about the way life REALLY is.

[familyop]

That's only a metaphor often used in feminist speech ("war," "battle," etc.). There's been no war on drugs.

How China got rid of opium
http://www.sacu.org/opium.html

[Rusty0604]

How about we just don’t pay disability for addicts? How about we give stiffer sentences to addicts that commit serious crimes? Not for actually holding the drugs...