The federal government’s effort to battle drug abuse has
been a tragic and expensive failure. But of course, admitting that
would make politicians, who regularly endorse it to sound tough, seem foolish and careless with taxpayer
dollars. So the War on Drugs continues, while of necessity it
slowly morphs into new forms of federal waste and unnecessary
intrusion into people’s lives.
Militarized federal law enforcement just can’t cope with
trendiness in recreational drug use. Cocaine use is so yesterday
(the 1980s, to be exact) and is a declining problem. Even at the
height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the mid-1980s, only 5.8
million people in a population of about 240 million were
using the drug; the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health
estimated that only 1.5 million in a population of 313 million use cocaine. In recent years, methamphetamine use has also
declined. Lately, heroin use is up slightly but still affects a
minuscule portion (less than .08%) of the American
population.
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Friday, August 10, 2012
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