Put These Guys In Rehab

July, 2002

Put These Guys in RehabThe war on drugs has now gone on Three Times as long as Vietnam war, with no end in sight and no good reason to believe it can ever be won. Richard Nixon declared the war in 1971, and its aim, as stated Later by an act of Congress, was a drug-free society by 1995. If that is still the Objective, Plainly we have lost. In 1980 there were 50,000 people in custody for Drug-Related Crimes. Twenty years later, the number was 400,000. The price of locking up all those people clim...