Losing a War Against an Inanimate Object = Priceless

            Recently new polls have come out that the public sees the “War on Drugs” as a failure.  It's because it was never a war on drugs. This is a war on people who use and are involved with drugs. Maybe if the government helped these people instead of sending them to jail or probation for unreasonable amounts of time, there would be fewer addicts. We have thousands of years of experimenting with Marijuana  to look back on to see it's nowhere close as harmful as the stuff we allow adults to consume in nearly unlimited quantities, like alcohol and tobacco.

Our current approach to drug policy obviously isn't working and instead of realizing we're failing and changing our response, we're nonstop beating our head against the wall. People have used drugs for basically all of human history, they won't be stopping anytime soon just because the government says so.

We inflict so much destruction, hardship, and suffering on good people's lives and can justify it by a single joint. It's disgusting. Nobody would advocate sending you through the courts for having a cigarette or even enough alcohol to kill yourself ten times over. I could go buy two gallons of vodka and drink until I passed out from alcohol poisoning. And that's perfectly legal. But a few grams of weed could have me dragged through the courts for months/years, and possibly even have me sent to jail and cost me thousands of dollars.

The war against drugs, which actually is a war against civil rights, don't ever be fooled again. If they cared about us they'd get rid of the number one drug which is cigarettes; kills more people than crack, coke, and heroin combined, times 100. Legal. I’ll buy into drugs being illegal because they're bad for us when they make cigarettes illegal, and that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.