No, the problems with drug abuse won’t go away if we end the WOD. It is my simple assertion that the WOD does more harm to our freedoms than it does to enhance our security.
Absolutely. There was nowhere near the amount of violent crime in the US prior to prohibition!
Both "Aspirin" and "Heroin" are trademarks of AG Bayer and Co.
Before prohibition and when first launched, Coca-Cola's key ingredients were cocaine and caffeine and cocaine could be purchased in concentrated form from the Sears catalog. There are very definitely beneficiaries of the "War on Drugs" but the beneficiaries are not the peons who get to pay for it all and duck the bullets. I think that the chances that the WOD will end during my lifetime are fairly remote, but that still doesn't mean that the societal costs of the WOD aren't still greater than the societal benefits. [/end rant]
(Just to preemptively answer the knee-jerk response to my rant, the only mind-altering drug I use is coffee.)