[headsonpikes]

RE: 'efficacy of the current drug war'

Extremely efficacious in preserving appropriate profit margins for the well-connected kingpins.

Extremely efficacious as a backdoor method of imposing martial law.

Extremely efficacious as a program to de-legitimize American institutions such as civilian-controlled police forces.

Extremely efficacious as the camel's nose of American Totalitarianism.

OTOH, it provides steady, well-paid employment for thuggish half-wits; it at least organizes their brutish impulses so we don't suffer anarchy.

;^)

[headsonpikes]

Bumping my #10 in support of your position.

We can't let a bunch of hippies interfere with 'our thing'.

[EaglesUpForever]

Well put. Another great plus of the drug war is that it subverts the values of our Founding Fathers. Puts an American stamp on precisely the heavy handed authoritarianism and opportunistic abuse of power that this country was founded to oppose.

However, you do have a point that the idiot thugs that support the status quo could do worse if their candy were taken away...

"try to change the world, you will only make matters worse"
-- John Cage