The 2009 UN World Drug report in pictures

I am sorry but the war on drugs is a sham. The refinement and habitual use of refined drugs did not come until prohibition of weaker forms. Think about it, we got Heroin, Crack, Meth and the rest from the unrelenting pursuit of lesser forms of mind altering substances, Opium being the first. Soon after opium’s prohibition Heroin made its debut.

All this war has done is victimizing individuals who have made poor choices and empowered those who are willing to take the risk to traffic in the substances.

Now I agree that drugs have the ability to ruin peoples lives, but that argument is negated by the acceptance of alcohol which has just as devastating of an impact on an abusers life. One must willfully ignore the fact that alcohol abuse, for all intents and purposes, happens in only a small percentage of the population (we are not talking about college party years here but rather life long abusers). As well as, the fact that given it’s availability stronger forms of the substance (liquor) make up for the smallest portion of consumption.

If weaker forms of these substances where available (opium, coca) then I believe that you would see a similar trend.

Now I am not a government conspiracy nut and I don’t think there is this grand conspiracy to control drugs. I just think that our tradition conservative base of the past had a grand idea of trying to save people from themselves and the basis of their assumptions did not materialize, so it is time to rethink the whole thing.

It has been proven time and time again, that you cannot legislate morality and I believe that it is time that the government stops trying to. It just further victimizes individuals.