I could use a kind word today....

[Warpy]

77. The kindest words I can think of are "end the drug war."

Given a clean and reliable supply of his drug of choice, he would have been given more control over his addiction, with less control given to black market gangs who tend to be sloppy when it comes to reliable dosages and purity.

We lost the drug war, the drugs won, people who want them still get them. The problem is that black market drugs kill them.

Rehab programs are too often a revolving door for drug addicts, mostly because they don't allow enough inpatient time. I've known more than one addict in recovery who has told me that a year or two was what it took for them to get their heads straight enough to start going to NA and take it seriously and prison was the only thing that gave them that. I don't think we need prison. I think we need an end to the drug war and to put the money we're wasting on it into long rehab programs that might actually work.

Nixon started the drug war and admitted on tape it was to suppress black folks and college kids who were too uppity. Nixon is dead and it's time for this part of his legacy to follow him. End it. Keep people who fall into drug use alive. Fund adequate rehab programs for them when and if they want to get off the drugs. Take the profit out of the black market and end the gangs. Close the pipeline to young kids. Just end it.