[Mark was here]

All they need to say is we need bigger boat to catch the drug dealers and Bingo, Billions more of taxpayer dollars go down the rathole, to pay payrolls, all for the War ON Drugs.

Canceling the war on Drugs would save the Coast Guard Billions, not to mention the reduction of law enforcement payrolls all across the board.

Drug use is stupid, but it is the choice stupid people make. Let Darwin deal with them.

[spikeytx86]

We could redirect a portion of the money to port security and other counter terror operations the CG undertakes.

[tjd1454]

"Drug use is stupid, but it is the choice stupid people make. Let Darwin deal with them."

That logic is a death knell for civilized society. Unfortunately the rest of society will pay a costly price in increased crime, the deterioration of inner city neighborhoods, the costs of medical treatment and rehabilitation for drug addicts, destroyed families - wayward sons and daughters, which cause more of the previously mentioned problems...

[Nevermore]

Billions more of taxpayer dollars go down the rathole, to pay payrolls, all for the War ON Drugs.

Imagining that our drug woes will go away if we simply ignore drug abuse is a foolish as believing that terrorism won't hurt us if we simply leave them alone.

Just as with the War on Terrorism, that's not to say that there aren't ways to improve the effort; but "surrender is not a strategy [unless your a pompous windbag named James Baker]" is just as apt regarding the WOD.