They discovered that the local economy goes in the crapper when forty percent of the population is in jail, mebbe?
I'm not an advocate of drug use. If I could make all the hard drugs in the world disappear instantaneously, I would. Fact remains, though, our War On Drugs appears to be having an effect opposite its declared intent, while swelling funding for law enforcement agencies and badly eroding constitutional precedents and guidelines handed down to us from the days of Jefferson and Adams.
Drugs are a cancer. The War on Drugs is another kind of cancer.
Well stated. Two monsterous evils at war with one another, both of whom are trampling over our rights and our wallets.
Can we say , Drugs are Cancer and WOD is the laser used to treat it? If we use the laser properly to just get rid of the Cancer cells, it would not be a problem. We are using it to burn a lot of other organs (Read, trample on Rights), and that is when we feel the pain.