US drug war

has met none of its goals -

But it has cost us over $1 Trillion Dollars and they aren't interested in stopping and re-assessing the situation. All this money gives the cops great new toys to play with and that's all it does. This trillion dollars didn't build schools or help the sick or balance the budget or help small business or reduce your taxes or...

"In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified."

Maybe, just maybe, we're doing it wrong! But...if we're not doing it wrong then we must build more prisons and lock up more people until we're divided up into a society of those who are in prison and those guarding them.