WASTING THE WORLD

The world wide war on drugs is laying waste to the world.

In rich countries, way too many people are in prison for drug use, sale and importation.

In poor countries, the profits on illegal drugs is sucking money (capital) away from investments that benefit the country. It is trivially easy to hide drug profits because there will alway be sleazy lawyers and poor islands that provide absolute privacy.

I honestly believe that Afghanistan would become fairly peaceful if they could continue their centuries old practice of providing pain medication.

Worse, drug interdiction is not working. The profit motive is a very strong motive. The search for profit has resulted in more and more drugs being available for less and less monies.

As we know from alcohol, the ONLY WAY to stop an addict is for the ADDICT TO ASK FOR HELP and for the addict to work hard on becoming unaddicted.

Sometimes social experiments do not work. Too often, instead of admitting that the social experiment is a failure, people just try harder to make the experiment work.

IT IS WAY PAST TIME TO ADMIT THAT TRYING TO STOP ADULTS FROM PUTTING ENJOYABLE SUBSTANCES IN THEIR BODIES CAUSES UNACCEPTABLE SOCIAL CHAOS.