How’s that working out for them?
Not very well. Their addiction rates are skyrocketing and they’re responsible for 30% of the world’s amphetamine black market.
All I said was that in order to win a “war”, one must be willing to actually fight to win...
And as Marie showed, even that doesn't always work. Any war on drugs is really a war on human nature: the as-old-as-humanity urge to alter one's mental state, and the profit motive.
As far as solutions go...maybe legalization is the answer, but out of that will come bigger government
How so? Regulation is by any sensible definition smaller government than prohibition.
Really?
Let's look at dope like we do Tylenol or something similar...
The amount of federal bureaucracy involved in getting that bottle of caplets to your medicine chest is enormous.
Now we inject drugs that are instantly addictive in nature to the flow...I won't go into the current federal laws that are creating opportunities for thieves to rob the "stores" as result of banking regulations [see Colorado and laws of unintended consequences].
The front end is already accounted for, then there's the backend...dealing with the addicts.
Who regulates? Who institutes the "treatment" centers? Who runs the "treatment" centers? Who regulates the treatment centers?, most importantly, WHO PAYS?etc., etc. ad nauseum.
For anyone to naively or intentionally disregard the fact that the government will NOT get engaged in this at some point is absurd
There is just too much money and most importantly, power involved in this. Legalization of drugs like heroin is idiotic...marijuana is one thing, but heroin is an animal of an entirely different stripe.
And like I said before, we're not actually fighting a war, we're skirmishing, thus the results are what one should expect, ineffective. If we were to actually fight to win, the fields would be destroyed, the whole distribution network and anyone associated with it, destroyed, etc. Not this piecemeal BS we've been engaged in the past few decades.
IOW, no one has the balls to actually fight to win or they never intended to win [which I think is more to the point.]
And you both either ignored or missed my point about the "war"...and what these ex-cops who are now proponents of legalization stand to gain from their change of position.