You should beware of propaganda as prohibition worked fine. The number of cirrhosis of the liver cases declined. Alcohol sales and distribution makes a lot of money and the Great Depression was around in 1933. The federal government could not trust the state legislators to ratify the appeal so they arranged direct vote. The bottom line was money not liberty or morality or even effectiveness.

Some administrations seem sincere on ending the drug war and actually make an impression in the market while others use it as an excuse to forward their political agenda. I believe both Clinton and Bush the younger have done the later.

The solution to ending the “drug wars” is to offer drug users a choice:

Therapy or all the drugs they can use—free!—in a closely-supervised, otherwise “safe” setting.

Self-regulating. Sure, we’d be letting them kill themselves via their drug use, but it’d be their choice.

No food-clothing-shelter support for ‘em, just all the drugs they could ingest. Away from operating heavy machinery, driving, doing open heart surgery, whatever.

If they really want to poison their systems, let ‘em. As quickly and thoroughly as possible. Give ‘em their out up front, but let ‘em make their own bed and lie in it… alone.

That’s stage one. Next, anyone (yeh, including congresscritters) who uses mind-altering substances and harms someone else while impaired forfeits their worldly goods. All of ‘em. Period. to the person or persons harmed or their families. Next, kill someone while drugged up (including alchohol), no “impaired” defense. Ya chose to be impaired. Forfeit all your worldly goods and die.

And public executions for ‘em.

Preferably blooody ones. “Off with their heads!” (That useless wart on top of their shoulders.)

Pour encourager les autres, as it were.

And all of this because, frankly, prisons are inhumane.

But so is letting peope destroy the lives of others through their choice to operate their lives “under the influence.”