Criminal laws are not an effective way to control marijuana; removing criminal penalties does not lead to increased use; decriminalization creates savings in law enforcement.
Lumping marijuana, homosexuality, Jews and Commies into one grand conspiracy, a paranoid Richard Nixon launched America's "war on pot" 30 years ago. Here are the tapes to prove it.
Taking a page from the Enron Accounting Manual, the drug czar is blatantly underreporting some costs while inflating others to make the drug war seem less expensive and punitive.
Bush's "new" national strategy for fighting drug abuse offers no significant new approaches to treatment or prevention. It looks like the drug war is on autopilot.
