The “War on Drugs” is failed. I think, like maybe all incarcerations, 60%+ or so are drug related. I was watching a Charlie Rose interview some weeks back, & it was mentioned that the growth of jails, police, judges is 6 times the population growth the past 20 years. It is a run amok bureaucracy.
So, what does that tell the “casual” observer? There is money in peoples' misery.
Drugs are prevalent. The “War” ain't gonna work. Never did. Never will. It is what it is.
Maybe some progressive function in government will form a blue ribbon committee, figure out a way to control this shit. I think some controlled environment, with few doctors & nurses, can care for the drug infirmed. A facility available to anyone & all druggies. They don't have to steal, whore, or act bad to get their fix; also, some sort of reclamation. One way in. A sober exit out. They out & about acting bad, then bust their ass. A medical facility is just one idea. Much better than a f*cking jail. I think life is cheap the way we go about this whole thing. It just gets worst.
I do not feel bad for the self- indulgent. I feel for their families, their neighbors, communities, the victims of their love affair of drugs. I feel especially bad for the crap in Mexico & any country that is on the pipeline to America.
I do not think the long arm of the law, the right wing assholes in Congress with their wacked out ilk, present the correct solution to anything, especially the “War on Drugs”.
