[Clump]

This war on drugs has done far more damage to people than the drugs will ever do.
All it has given us is a police state, a thriving government market, and a risky but always thriving black market.
The war on drugs is a complete joke, except that there’s nothing funny about it.
Take away the incentive to meet a continuos demand for drugs and the cartels don’t exist anymore.
It’s not like they are smuggling beer across the border.
They can’t compete with Coors, etc.
I wonder how long it’s going to take for people to get it.
The war is a 100% failure. That is unless the objective was to militarize domestic law enforcement and create a police state.

[Ken H]

I often wish we would militarize the police. That would mean military levels of pay and pensions, abolishing police unions, and discipline via the UCMJ. Doubt any would like to be militarized in those ways.

I think the proper term is that our police have become ghetto-ized,