"The War on Drugs" a Bust?

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But I wonder, why?

Stop wondering.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/j...ks-hippie/

Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

I bet they won't be talking about this in your next history class.

I'm inherently an optimist and I usually have little use for gloom and doom pessimism but I won't argue with this. My country SUCKS at dealing with this problem. Sometimes you're stupid enough that logic doesn't work and you have to learn from the school of hard knocks - except we already did this! Prohibition was an absolute disaster. It's the only instance in our history of a constitutional amendment being reversed. So what do we do? We repeat the same idiotic mistake over again! It's said that stupidity is doing the same thing tomorrow that you did today and expecting different results.

Like I said, we really suck at dealing with this problem. We REALLY suck at it.