The so-called drug war is a great tragedy. It is unwinnable because we can't wage war against inanimate objects and expect to win. War-as-a-metaphor [1] is usually a bait-and-switch campaign: war on poverty, war on cancer, etc. Real wars are always between people. The so-called "drug war" is really a war on ourselves.
Johann Hari wrote a book about the futility of this particular societal auto-immune disease [1]. He points out that Portugal has decriminalized drug possession, and uses the resources that were formerly used to subjugate their struggling people to help them instead.
Switzerland has made heroin legally available to their hopeless addicts. Over the last 20+ years, they haven't had many (any?) overdose deaths of the people in their legal heroin program.
If the donkey party wanted to win in their ideological struggle against the elephant party, they'd make the case that the government should put the cartels out of business by taking care of our own addicts, and that it's a better use of funds to put people in treatment programs than in prison.
Johann Hari wrote a book about the futility of this particular societal auto-immune disease [1]. He points out that Portugal has decriminalized drug possession, and uses the resources that were formerly used to subjugate their struggling people to help them instead.
Switzerland has made heroin legally available to their hopeless addicts. Over the last 20+ years, they haven't had many (any?) overdose deaths of the people in their legal heroin program.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_as_metaphor [1] http://chasingthescream.com/
If the donkey party wanted to win in their ideological struggle against the elephant party, they'd make the case that the government should put the cartels out of business by taking care of our own addicts, and that it's a better use of funds to put people in treatment programs than in prison.