[ifinnegan]

“Drug use hasn’t done society any favors, but the collateral damage from the drug war has been far broader and deeper.”

Not sure about that, that the collateral is broader and deeper.

[Still Thinking]

The first civil right ever violated under color of authority on this mission is deeper than whatever damage all the pot-heads ever did.

THEN they've used laws they justified on the basis of the WOD to violate the civil rights of thousands on issues unrelated to drugs and the victims had little to no recourse.

A free Constitutional society with pot-heads causing some grief is an infinitely better place to live than a state where police feel free to do whatever the hell they damn well please because "their cause is just" (but where the drug use is still rampant anyway). You sit there and try to tell me it was worth it???

[MileHi]

Not sure about that, that the collateral is broader and deeper.

There is no question about it.