Drugs have infiltrated every level of society, from business leaders and politicians to white and blue collar workers, to the bums on the street.
Drugs are causing tens of thousands of deaths a year in the US alone. I dread to think the global total. The casualties of this war are mounting up rapidly. This is before we even count the criminals and enforcers killed in open combat.
Whole countries are on the verge of civil war or just plain collapse.
Yet in most countries talk of reform is either treated disparagingly or suspiciously, as if all the speaker is interested in is a quick toot, or as if they are a collaborator or traitor.
It's sick, it's weird, and it's deeply disastrous.
Meanwhile in Portugal, where possession is decriminalised, things seem to get better all the time.