AP IMPACT: US drug war has met none of its goals

[JBeukema]

After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread. Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn't worked.
"In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified."

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[JW Frogen]

You can not threaten people out of self destruction, self destructive people love threats. Believe me, I know. We play chicken with death all the time. Who gives a fuck about fines or law?

We can only treat this problem, and this problem will never go away.

Treat, treat, treat........forevermore, sayeth the raven.