NO ONE WANTS TO WIN CAMPAIGN ON DRUGS

Cody S. Boudreaux asks a very serious question in "Why hasn't our war on
drugs been won?"

The answer is simple, no one really wants to win that war. Users like the
way drugs make them feel, they don't want to win anything, addicts no
longer have a choice, and the political establishment, police departments,
narcotics task forces, prison industrial complex, pharmaceutical companies,
drug testing industry and the various institutions which supply or
otherwise benefit from the expansion of any of the above, don't want to win
the war on (some) political selected drugs.

Has everyone forgotten the CIA's, "guns for drugs" campaign in South
America? Does everyone really believe that our government got out of the
drug business after that? It's a $400 billion dollar a year industry. Our
government is as much involved in the illegal drug trade as it is the legal
drug trade of alcohol and tobacco.

Why hasn't it been won? There's too much at stake, too much money to be
made, too many votes to be gotten, too many people employed, too many
minorities and cultures to oppress, and too many human rights to eliminate,
that's why.

Jim White, Oregon, Ohio