I agree with your sarc. It’s just time to stop this nonsense. We watched the first episode of the new Netflix series Narcos last night and it really reminds you of how this whole prohibition thing has been a complete disaster. The violence, the lives lost, the regime corruptions.
The health aspect of this problem will never go away. But we can stop the majority of the violence and reduce the burden of an exploding prison system.
As William F. Buckley said in National Review a few years back...
Just stop it already!
It's right up there with Prohibition as a government success story. That stopped the black market for booze as surely as the war on drugs has stopped...oh, wait a minute.