The Never-Ending War on Drugs
Consider the following headlines that appeared in various newspapers, and especially notice the dates of the articles:
“Disgrace and Crime Sold Openly in Opium Market”: New York American, February 22, 1927
“Two Daughters Accuse Guitar Instructor of Giving Marijuana to Their Mother”: San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1940
“Black Men Versus the Drug Problem”: Metropole, November 9, 1969
“Nixon’s War on Drug Addicts”: Guardian, June 17, 1971
“Drug Lab Defendants Sentenced to Prison”: Waco Herald-Tribune, October 15, 1988
“Cocaine Haul: $100 Million”: Greenwood Index-Journal, July 27, 1989
In other words, the much-vaunted war on drugs has been going on for a very long time. It is still going on. It will go on forever. Children today will be living under the drug war when they become adults and probably until the day they die.
Today, DEA agents, federal prosecutors, and federal judges continue to do the same things that federal officials have been doing our entire lives. They arrest people who possess or distribute drugs. They prosecute them. They jail them.
And the process just keeps repeating itself, year after year, decade after decade forever.
Do all these federal officials really believe that their efforts will somehow bring victory in the war on drugs? I can’t believe they do. Nobody can be that obtuse. Every single DEA agent, U.S. Attorney and Assist
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