Drug War Facts makes several points:
- Most drugs "dealers" hold low-wage jobs and sell drugs to supplement their incomes;
- In the past 25 years, the number of drug arrests has risen by a factor of five;
- Most drug arrests are for possession, not sale or manufacture, of drugs;
- Far more crime is committed by people under the influence of alcohol than under the influence of illegal drugs (over a third of all murders are committed by people under the influence of alcohol);
- The War on Drugs may very well have caused the high US homicide rate.
When was the last time that a politician who advocated a law — regardless of whether the law related to poverty, crime, the economy, national defense, education — if the law failed to obtain the desired result, said "I goofed. It doesn't work. Let's try something else?" Almost never. Instead, it's "We need to go further. We need to do more." And they push for more of the same. Albert Einstein defined insanity as "going in the same direction and expecting to reach a different destination."
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