DEFEATED IN THE DRUG WAR

To paraphrase Barry McCaffrey, "We are not involved in a drug war, and if
we are, we are winning!" I'm sure this is a comfort to American parents,
whose children have purer and cheaper drugs available to them than at any
time in the history of this country. The general would like to portray
anyone who disagrees with his interdiction-incarceration approach to the
nation's drug problem as an evil legalizer who wants to put crack vending
machines in preschools.

The time for demagoguery on this issue has passed. We need a demand-side,
treatment-oriented solution to America's drug problem.

- -- Tony Goins