[mysterio]

but the article does lay out the scope of the failure of the drug war nicely.

It sure does.
I have a solution.

We put the entire failed war on drugs to a consensus vote. Everyone who votes to keep it puts their address up. If we vote to keep it, the people who voted yes get a monthly bill for it.

I don't like paying for a farce. Those who want to keep it should be the ones taxed to continue it. If they don't want to pay for it, we should scrap it and try another strategy.

[glorgau]

I don't like paying for a farce.

It's worse than a farce, it's a tragedy. Getting busted with an ounce of ditch weed will get someone a felony conviction which entails loss of voting rights and loss of 2nd Amendment rights.