[Doctor Stochastic]

Wars are painful, even The War On Drugs. Some have to sacrifice for a Greater Good. No pain, no gain. It's for The Children.

[neverdem]

I think the war on drugs will be still going on long after the war on terror is over.

[chilepepper]

the purpose of the war on drugs is to provide funding for the DEA, and to increase government power. check the long list of civil liberties set aside to support the "war on drugs".

like a chinese finger puzzle, the harder you crack down on drugs, the more valuable the payoff to those who sell. its the capitalist system. the BIGGEST backers of the war on drugs are the drug lords -- think about it.

the DEA is completely oblivious to the needs or desires of society, and would allow the entire population of the US suffer rather than to allow people in pain to have a minutes respite.

this just to follow a puritan mandate which busy-bodies use to involve themselves in the lives of others...