Our Whack-A-Mole U.S. War on Drugs

We once had a ‘war on alcohol,’ which we called Prohibition.

We Americans are good at war with things, but they seem quite regularly to fail

us.

Prohibition was a constitutional amendment, no less and

its end required another

constitutional amendment. Complicated stuff.

Interesting things happened, 14 years later, after repeal.

Joe Kennedy (who made a family

fortune from bootlegging) became the American Ambassador to Britain and sired a

son, later to become our 35th president.

The Mafia calmed down a bit and got

into quieter activities such as extortion and mob-run businesses that, if you

didn’t sign on, got your windows (or your legs) broken.

But that was then and now is now, although the parallels are

fascinating between drugs and alcohol.

Either of these was supported by an

uncontrollable thirst by their users. Americans who choose to do drugs in

various forms do so by choice.

Admittedly a poor choice, yet we are the major

end-users of every substance war upon which we have chosen to fight. How

can th…