We've spent 30 years and $500 BILLION on our absurd "war on drugs." What do we have to show for it? Absolutely nothing. It's a war that simply cannot be won. Our jails are full and drugs are just as plentiful today as they were in 1970. It's long past time for us to decriminalize drugs and spend the money we waste on prohibition on treatment and education. The government's own think-tank experts (Rand) have told them this is the most effective approach.

While we are fighting the war on drugs we should also stamp out the evils of strong drink.
Well we already tried that and it did not work out.
The government is not the ansewr to most troubles in society.
The goverment will become the problem when it is given to much leash.
Like the previous poster said, drugs should be available to those who are of legal age.
Then let nature take it course.

Private submarines are the big thing among the elite rich.
for a mere 80 million, you can have a 200+ submarine yacht capable of atlantic crossings, much of it underwater. THis is probably chump change to the cartels.

What they need to do is make dealing drugs a death offense (public hanging)with swift trials and swift retribution. As one who was involved in the drug culture years ago, I've seen how drugs, including pot, destroy lives. When all drug dealers, including the young punk, liberal High School and college students, face a rope instead of some comfortable prison, that will curtail availability of drugs.

Of course theres drug runs, they are going on all around us. Yet the government is doing nothing to stop it.

Drugs do not destroy lives. They are only inanimate chemical compounds. In truth, people destroy themselves using these mere chemicals (themselves as inert as so much salt and water). It is their own damn fault for poisoning themselves.

Very well, let the stupid weaklings kill themselves off. Good riddance. It improves the breed. Anti-drug enforcement interferes with natural selection. Any proper Darwinist knows that.

Drug use should therefore be encouraged, to promote evolution!

Yes, you're so right Dave: we need to hang everyone who takes/wants drugs.
Freedom is a curse on us all. We are all sinners at our core and we must be punished.
Life is not about pleasure, it is about paying taxes and tithes to the morally superior and fulfilling whatever purpose/plan they lay out for us.
Just one question, why waste the time and money to hang them when we can just let those who want drugs have them and the can kill themselves (since those of who know the drug culture know that these addicts are rotten to the core)?

What we need to do is:
1. Execute drug dealers caught selling drugs and drug smugglers caught in the act, and those convicted by trial. They are murderers and enemies of our nation.
2. Make seized drugs poisonous by injecting some additive. Then immediately sink drug-smuggling vessels by explosion with the poisoned drugs aboard.
3. Seize and utterly destroy the property of convicted drug dealers.
Availability would probably cease rather quickly!

RMS: Yes you are right they should execute all those murdering doctors, pharmacists and anyone connected to the pharmeceutical companies!

for those who want to legalize drugs.
your right ends where my bumper begins!
Alcohol is legal, and look how many
alcholics we have!

CURE WHAT AILS AMERICA: End the "war on drugs",legalize drugs, empty the prisons to make room for politicians, the real crooks.

The war on poverty and education have been utter failures too, we should also abandon those also. What a waste of hundreds of trillions of dollars.

Is there a war on drugs! or just a war on drug dealers? Its everyone outside of the United States trying to sell illegal drugs while the U.S. legalize its drugs and sell to other countries, the residents of the U.S. demand quality .

Well, "Gene", it appears you're another Republican who obviously doesn't have a clue about....drugs or Democrats; you're just worried that your own supply will be cut off. But, hey, one of your "noisemakers", Rush "the Druggie" Limbaugh, finds it perfectly normal to use Oxycontin.

But as usual, drugs, like everything else, will find it's way to the streets no matter what is being done to prevent them. You can't treat the addict by throwing him "under" the jail, which, after all, is a Republican mentality; unless of course, you have money and are well-connected, just so you can "pretend" to dry out!

I am an x-coasty. I served in the United States Coast Guard. And I will tell you with complete confidence that the majority of illegal narcotics that comes into the United States comes in by vessels with Diplomatic Immunity. While I served in the Coast Guard there were vessels that Coast Guard Intelligence understood drugs were on board but we were not allowed to board it. This was not an isolated case. This situation was very often. There were cases where a person would actually have warrants out for their arrest and yet we could not touch them, I referring to someone who was only 19 years old and was no diplomat. If a journalist wants a good story that would shock people, contact X-coast guard vets that served in the 7th district. That would be florida.

Sounds like a great reason to give alarge defense contractor a 5 billion dollar contract to come up with a way to detect and stop the subs.
But after 9 years and after running 12 billion dollars over cost estimates, then they'll can come and say that it can't be done.
But everyone gets paid while the drugs keep on coming. Didn't they put up some kind of stupid blimps along the border in texas with a similar hair-brained idea?
Know what? Drugs have been part of the American Culture for 100 years..and no matter what you say or do, they will continue to be. At best you'll stop 1% while 99% gets through..and at what cost?
And just look at Rush...nobody smuggled in his drugs of choice..they were made right here in the good ol' US of A at Eli Lilly.

the only thing i'd want everyone that has no self-control and is doing any of that stuff is it funds "organized crime and terrorists"..not exactly legal..not exactly religious and not exactly safe!
if you want our dollar to be a dollar again and relieve the coast guard and other services to do others services, don't buy imported drugs!

self-respect and self-control equal a will of your own !! remember me..every time i try to help you with some positive reinforcement, i get censored or threatened! don't you ruin your lives ever again! and don't fund terrorism or organized crime!! we need to let our government know that if they didn't put so many NO's out there, it might tone down the challenging of all the "vices" we find for ourselves! no one wants to be told what to do with their lives, but if we say we're telling you what needs to be done, would it help? be on the lookout for scams and out and out temptations. they'll stop at your colleges and your schools and your friendly neighborhood pubs..respect yourself enough to say no and say it that way: i respect myself and save your money along with your lives. the people watching our waters put theirs on the line every day and they aren't even in iraq. how many wars can we settle by not doing those stupid things to ourselves that we become slaves of? save your money and save a life- reality or realistic? you count!

Wait a minute! Every year for the last 30 years the American drug czars have been proclaiming that "we're winning the war on drugs!" Since our government never lies, illegal drugs should be as difficult to get today as cheap health insurance. What happened?

GWB himself used cocaine quite extensively and "says" that he 'quit'. . . does it make any of you WONDER WHO could be letting in all the drug runners. As for Rush. . . just LISTEN to him and YOU WILL KNOW that he is a druggie. He is OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. As for GWB. . . have any of you ever noticed that he can't string a few words together to make a simple sentence??????