We are not winning the War on Poverty, either. So I guess, then, that there should be no objection to canceling all welfare programs?

 

Hopelessness of cause does not equate to meaning that the fight should not be made.

 

Besides, I see the glass as half full. It all depends on how you look at "winning." If lives are saved as a result of drug busts on the micro-level, even if we don't stop the marijuana trade wholesale, I consider that a victory, at least for the lives that were saved.

 

 

If marijuana were made legal lives would be saved. Drug deals gone bad would decline. The drug problem in the USA isn't fueled by marijuana. I have had friends/associates who have gotten entangled in coke, meth, and heroine over the years and those drugs are problems. Nobody od's off pot. JMO but the war on drugs needs to be focused on more serious life altering/addictive drugs.

I am not aware of your background, but the evidence I see every day in court does not lend credence to this statement. The damaging effects of marijuana on personal lives in Kentucky is astounding. The other drugs may PHYSICALLY be worse, but marijuana abuse is every bit as damaging as alcohol abuse in my experience.

 

 

So criminals who use marijuana have destroyed their lives with pot? I am guessing pot was not the root of the evil. I think there were/are other evils that these people you come in contact with repress with pot.