Please expand on this. And does this apply to other crimes than drug use?
Drug use tends to start in the teenage years, when feeligs of rebellion against authority coincide with raging hormonal activity. The "War on Drugs" is a political attempt to solve an insoluble problem, drug use. I'll be honest with you. I don't have a solution, but I do know that legalization is not the answer. But I do know that blanket prohibition has done nothing to solve the problem.
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Chris
"While pretending to oppose drug use, the New York Times has supported programs to give addicts needles, referring in a 1998 editorial to "some interesting new ideas" such as "needle exchanges." In the case of cigarettes, however, liberals enthusiastically embrace the otherwise mystifying concept of punishing bad behavior."
Make the war on drugs look like the war on smokers. Make it all legal and then villify the now law abiding users as scum of the earth pariahs, just like they're doing with smokers.