You are absolutely correct. I could not agree more that you describe the only way to actually WIN the war on drugs. Not enough people realize that. More people should, then maybe we'd get away from this fictitious war.

Tell the poltiticians that unless they plan to actually fight this like a war, they'd better stop spouting their crap about being absolutely able to win this so-called war, and find a real solution to the problem, even though it's a self-solving problem if it is just ignored:

If you just ignore it, let all the people who want to do drugs have all they want, for free, and look what you get: The drug lords go out of business, there's no more reason to kill to get drugs, and the people who can't handle their drugs will die of overdoses, leaving only those that either (1) don't want any drugs, or (2) can handle their drugs and still maintain a decent lifestyle. Evolution in action, the people who can't handle it are removed from the breeding pool.

Instead of being a nanny state and keeping the drugs away from everyone, do the reverse and give every coke head and speed freak their very own kilogram of their favorite substance and then come back in a week or two to clean up the mess. It doesn't violate the constitution, and it actually promotes ultimate freedom - do whatever you want to do... even if it kills you!

That's just it though, which is a worse evil? Would you rather line up millions off hard working Americans and pop a cap in them just because they have different beliefs and values than you?

Drugs by themselves are not bad, and what's truly ironic is that the very people who say that they are trying to get rid of the drugs are the same people who are responsible for making drugs so outrageously profitable. all their work has horribly backfired and they should be shamed for continuing their down show first making things worse every day.

For reasons I dont understand,  there is something about the very essence of being human that makes some of us enjoy "getting out of there skulls" from time to time. My guess is it's the same human aspect that make others seek out religion. Something that's neither right nor wrong, just human. The only way to avoid it is to become machine-like, inhuman... That would negate everything about us that is good, and take away that little unnamable thing that makes life worth living.

Yeah, I was just thinking about this very thing, while writing some email in WordStar on my C64, and listening to MP3s on my portable wax cylinder player, on my morning zeppelin commute to work.

Or, you could just let them die by using drugs, and eventually, many years, people might realize that drugs will in fact kill you.