DON'T FOLLOW US

Sir:

The American led war on drugs was doomed from the very beginning.
Regardless of the money put into the anti-drug programme, one cannot
nullify the basic supply and demand law of economics. As long as people
want to purchase recreational drugs and are willing to pay a substantial
price to buy them, somebody will produce them and somebody else will
somehow get the drugs to the buyers. This is guaranteed.

The war on drugs has transformed the United States into the most
incarcerated nation in history. With less than five per cent of the
world's population, the US has more than one fourth of the world's
prisoners. In other words, one out of every four prisoners in the
world is locked in an American prison, thanks primarily to America's
counter-productive war on certain (politically selected) drugs. The
United States government is in no position to give any other nation
advice on how to run an anti-drugs campaign. No other nation has
wasted more resources on fighting drugs and no other nation has
imprisoned more citizens for drug law violations than the US, yet no
other nation has been less successful in solving its narcotics problem
than the United States.

My advice to the rest of the world: Carefully observe the US narcotics
policy and do the opposite. Don't follow us, we're lost.

Kirk Muse

USA