The War on Drugs - Unfounded Hypocrisy

The war on drugs is one of the biggest money wasters in American history. It was founded on misinformation, the theory behind it and what it is trying to achieve is completely absurd and has no ground whatsoever. It is time the government stopped flushing your money down the toilet.

Lets start this report by stating what the war on drugs is trying to prevent and how. The 'war' on drugs, and I do not use that term loosely because many lives have been lost because of it thanks to intolerance and plain stupidity, is a prohibition on narcotics that for some reason or another have been labeled as immoral and harmful to that of a society and should be stopped at all costs. Now, that may sound rather good and ethically correct to some or many of you reading but let me ask you this, isn't America a free country? If so, why can't people choose what they want to put into their own bodies? Aren't cigarettes legal? Those things killed 5 million people alone in the year 2000 (quitsmokingsupport.com). So, to say that drugs are illegal for the protection of a society is ridiculous and offensive to the intelligence of the general public. The new prohibition and suppression of freedom was launched in 1971 by Richard Nixon who just two years later in 1973 had a 27% approval rating, that is just plain despicable. This civil war started as a couple-hundred million dollar cost and is now into the billions. I repeat, billions.

The majority of Americans do want drugs to remain illegal, that much is true. But, at the same time the majority of Americans believe the war on drugs is failing. Why? Because, more and more money is being poured into this campaign and no real results are coming out from it. Different drugs become popular with different generations. Supply and demand, production, transportation and cost all have major factors on what drugs are more popular. To go into each drug separately and state that at this point in time this certain drug is less popular than it was in the 1960's does not prove that the war is working. You would have to look at all drug use combined to make a rational conclusion. So let us look at some statistics.