Drug Legalization

The Big Picture: Let us look at the three decades of the drug war in retrospection. Towards the end of 1960’s, Nixon starts a drug war to hide his illegal espionage activities. He gets kicked out of office but the war still wages on. New proponents jump in and declare drugs to be the root of every evil in our society. Drug use becomes the prime suspect in every crime committed anywhere on globe, with …

…wasting our resources, and that it is encouraging civil, judicial, and penal procedures associated with police states. We all agree on movement toward legalization." - National Review, 12th Feb 1996. Availability: One of the aims of the drug war was to create a scarcity of drugs. Despite that, controlled drugs are readily available today. 88.9% of twelfth graders said drugs like marijuana were "very easy" or "fairly easy" to obtain in 1999. 47.6% of them found cocaine easily available3.