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VMI77 wrote: It's not going to end because there is too much money it in for too many people. It's one of our biggest industries with profits all around. And the drug dealers don't want it to end anymore than the rum runners wanted prohibition to end. So, on both sides of the line, everybody wins....it's just the innocent and the consumers that get hurt, and the consumers are easily replaced and the innocent don't matter....there is virtually no cost but bad publicity for killing or injuring innocent people in a drug raid.

There is a bunch of money in it... Especially for states like ours and politicians. But as Colorado has figured out, there is also a lot of money in legalization.
I have no doubt that it will correct... I'm just sad that it's going to take decades.

It's a great example of government making the same mistakes over and over... And throwing good money after bad. If corporations acted like that, they'd be bankrupt. If engineers acted like that, they'd be fired. When politicians act like that they get re-elected.

It's a big sheep issue. We've trained our sheep that the sky is purple. It's hard to un-train.

mayor wrote: I don't advocate drug use, ALCOHOL (and it is a drug) included, but people will use them anyway. The 'war on drugs' is government stupidity in all its glory. Drug use should be treated as a medical problem, not a criminal problem. this kind of government stupidity wouldn't be required.

What do you expect? We taught the population that 1 marijuana cigarette was equivalent to smoking 100 tobacco cigarets.. At least that's what I remember from school.
And we politicized the dangers of such drug use for years. We developed public opinion based on little more than political leanings, rather than any sort of scientific fact.

It's going to take a while for the dinosaurs to die off and get out of public office.

The war on drugs is a huge example of governmental waste that can't be stopped..