America and the War on Drugs

ted $70 billion a year from consumers, is responsible for nearly 50 per cent of the million Americans who are today in jail, occupies an estimated 50 per cent of the trial time of our judiciary, and takes the time of 400,000 policemen -- yet a plague for which no cure is at hand, nor in prospect." (William F. Buckley Jr.) The government is wasting useful time and taxpayers' money on an issue that seems to be a paradox. At times trafficking drugs into the country, then targeting the
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