The war on some drugs has failed.
Locking up people for marijuana while oxycontin is legal makes no sense.
Locking up huge numbers of people for private profit at taxpayer expense
while schools are getting defunded makes even less sense.
David Gutierrez wrote in Natural News 10 November 2008,
Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs
A report by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission has concluded that
prescription drugs have outstripped illegal drugs as a cause of death.An analysis of 168,900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that
three times as many people were killed by legal drugs as by cocaine,
heroin and all methamphetamines put together. According to state law
enforcement officials, this is a sign of a burgeoning prescription drug
abuse problem.
Is this just in Florida?