Idiocy rules!
War on Marijuana is defended as necessary to keep drugs out of the hands of young people. Judged by that standard, the War on Pot is a farce and an extraordinary failure. This month, the pro-Drug War National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
(CASA) released a new study that shows that marijuana is more available than
ever before to junior high and high school kids. CASA surveyed 1,002 youths ages 12 to 17, between April and June.
The results: 23 percent of teens find marijuana easier to buy than beer (compared to 15 percent who find beer easiest to buy).
Fully forty-two percent of 12- to 17-year olds say they can buy marijuana in a day or less; 23 percent say they can purchase pot in an hour or less. Half of 16- and 17-year olds say that among their age group smoking marijuana is more common than smoking cigarettes.
Could anything be more damning of the idiotic War on Pot? Marijuana has been illegal since the mid-1930s, when Congress was bamboozled into outlawing it by a lurid, racist propaganda campaign of nonsense and lies. Now, after 70-plus years of brutal, violent marijuana prohibition — costing billions of dollars and gutting fundamental Bill of Rights freedoms — we see the fruits: easier access than ever for kids. Way to go, government.
(Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)
http://www.casacolumbia.org/absolutenm/templates/PressReleases.aspx?articleid=53 3&zoneid=66 )
[Edited for brevity] Never mind the invasion of personal privacy (Live, and let live!), the public cost is outrageous! The way to put the drug lords and dealers out of business is to take away their path to profit. “War” is an exercise in futility.