<p>With each passing year, evidence mounts that America is sadly losing the war on drugs -- not to drug cartels or drug traffickers over there, but to the dependably relentless appetite for illegal drugs created by our neighbors right here at home. Eighty-six years after Congress passed the 1914 Harrison Act that criminalized drugs, America's drug consumption thrives. According to recent surveys and news reports, illegal drugs are cheaper, purer and more available than ever before, and the results are devastating.</p>