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I just don't get the "war on drugs." Waging war on the supply of ANYTHING has never worked. Did we learn NOTHING from the US prohibition of the pre WW-2 era? It failed miserably. We had none of that garbage in Canada, and we also avoided all the violence and "war" between police and the people.
Are the users of drugs (I mean hard drugs, the kind that can ruin your life) primarily middle and upper middle class people? Nope. Mostly people that have nothing to lose anyway. Sheesh.
Again, a government focused on symptoms and not on diseases. If you don't want the citizenry on drugs, find out why they take them, and solve THAT problem. Does putting them in jail solve the problem? Do those drug offenders serve their ridiculouly long sentences and then come out of prison to become productive members of the community? Right... What about the idea that we need to keep them out of the community, and the prison term is for the protection of society? Well, not sure about you folks, but I have a suspicion that drinking alcohol is probably causing more carnage in our nations than just about anything else. Hypocrisy at work.
It all boils down to an agenda-driven system where law enforcement justifies bigger budgets for fancier guns, planes, etc. through the war on everything. Goverments use "war on this or that" to deflect examination of their fiscal and social records.
The current legal system in the US (and growing in Canada) leads me to believe that instead of building a nation, we're actually trying to build one big prison.
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