How much worse would it be if we legalized all drugs, channeled through doctors for supervision? The number of people who die from cannabis use is really close to zero, and definitely non-zero for alcoholics.
We would not be a nation of lunatics without the DEA. Mexico would be a much safer place, Columbia would be a much safer place, and the same people would be doing drugs.
In my view, it is absolutely clear that the Federal Government has NO business, Constitutionally, in declaring “war” on drugs, and that the DEA and all associated arms of the Federal Government should be disbanded, and all States allowed to dictate their own policies as far as drugs.
Oh, you say, but they we would be surrounded by drugs. Here is the thing: I don’t do any drugs but alcohol, but I suspect that whatever I wanted, I could get, and that the route would be a friend of a friend of a friend. That short, in nearly every city in America. This after 20 years of “war”. The only difference with it being illegal is the price, and the violence that that price engenders.
Both the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, in my increasingly firm opinion, are simply intended as VEHICLES for trampling the Bill of Rights while alleging we are being protected from some amorphous threat.
People die. We all die. It is how we live that we should be free to choose. That is freedom, as should be clear.