Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
Well, I would think eradication of supply lines and a lowered demand would be one version of "won", neither of which apply to the war on drugs.

If we "won" is defined as incarcerating people for non violent and victimless crimes, and helping to push the us into a militarized police state, then yes, the drug war has been a resounding success
Well, drug-use is not victimless.

Let's stop thinking about this as a "war" and instead think about it as a judicial matter.

Unless you want to consider the War on Burglary.

Quote Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny View Post
Face it, any policy that continues for for half a century and shows no statistically significant results ought to be scrapped. If you had a city council that spent 50 years building a bridge, and the bridge was still not completed, you would be more than a little upset. In any other context voters would yell "Foul!" demand an audit and lynch the posse; for whatever reason this colossal failure gets a "pass".
Take a look at the history of Heroin use int eh UK - it spiked violently when it was legal.