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It is difficult to improve in any respect on your post.

Our loss of privacy, the corruption of our courts, the corruption of our law enforcement, the assaults overall on the Constitution, the cynicism, and the utter, hopeless of the war on drugs, the pointlessness of it all begs the question, why?

It is a war we have lost and cannot win because more we succeed the more we fail. The more we interdict the trade in drugs the more we drive up the price and the more attractive we make the gamble. We contrive in spite of ourselves to lose.

The more we strive, the more we raise the stakes, the fewer our precious individual rights, the more we degrade ourselves and sacrifice our dignity, and, as you so eloquently point out, the more we engross government and imperil our precious liberty.

In playing God, in trying to save the addict from the consequences of his folly, we victimize all society, we transfer the pain to the innocent and we make it all unspeakably profitable for the very worst among us.

You’re preaching to the choir.

The most ridiculous aspect is, it would be one thing if any of these efforts have helped, and it looked like we were stopping it, or even slowing it down. But it isn’t even having an effect. We’ve deployed more money than our nation can afford (and we’ll probably collapse at some point because of it), to launch the most sophisticated operations any nation ever could, for decades, and nothing has changed. You can still buy whatever you want, dirt cheap, on almost any street corner in some neighborhoods - and it is clear you always will be able to.

Indeed, things are getting worse. More Heroin, more meth, all cheaper than ever, and we have articles where the LE fighting the war actually say, “We’re all just waiting for it to get really bad now. We think that will begin any day. We’re actually surprised it hasn’t started already. We sit around looking at each other saying, it doesn’t make sense, why isn’t it happening?”

All this money, all the dangers to our liberty, all the intrusiveness, a collapsed state even (though admittedly, that has a lot of over-spending causes) all to “save” people who are screwing us with their own selfishness, and nothing even changes. What is the point again?