The Feds Can't Catch the Cartels' Cocaine-Filled Submarines: Is the War on Drugs a Waste of Money?

The war on drugs isn't a waste of money but it is a war of futility because on the one hand, we are fighting against ruthless drug cartels willing to do anything to get their drugs into our country and on the other, we restrict the drug enforcement agencies from fighting fire with fire by creating laws limiting what they can do against an enemy who can do anything they want.

Let's examine some reality here as most who oppose the war on drugs are under some illusion that drugs should be legalized and will not do much harm if we did it. Yet in the 1960's where drug laws were liberalized, we saw the exact opposite prove true. Music groups like the Beetles who promoted making drugs legal totally reversed themselves when they visited San Francisco and saw young people there lying about in the streets so addicted to drugs that they were literally selling the clothes off their backs for enough money to get a cheap hit... that's why the Beetles turned to guru's and religious cults turning their backs on illegal drugs.

People forget that it wasn't the political right who reversed victories the counter culture generation gained where drugs were concerned much as they forget it wasn't the political right who led the fight to remove sex education from our schools which the counter culture got put into our schools in the 1960's... it was the counter culture itself in the 1970's which turned against the drug culture and fought to remove sex ed from schools admitting they had been wrong as we saw a huge elevation in teenage pregnancies which they themselves connected to irresponsible sex ed policies.

In any society, you will have a sub culture which wants things that are not good for the greater whole. While people within this subculture may be more responsible or even willing to face the consequences of what are considered illegal or wrongful social behaviors, that does not mean the majority are the same way.

Thus, young adults who support making illegal drugs legal live with the consequences when their younger siblings find it easier to get access to such drugs and become addicted or die as a consequence because they are not mentally mature enough to understand the consequences... and unfortunately, many people who are adults by age are not adults when it comes to mental maturity and responsibility.

We live in a society where millions of young people are so immature and irresponsible that they must live with their parents until they are themselves in their 40's before their parents either die off or these adult children finally learn enough maturity to stand on their own two feet. This was not true of the 60's generation where even if they were viewed as irresponsible, it was almost unthinkable that young people would live with their parents (live off their parents) into their 40's and even hippies considered these people mentally deficient as they left home to find their way often before 20.

So you want to end the war on drugs when we live in a society where so many of us are this immature and incapable of making real life decisions where we stand on our own two feet as adults???

The war on drugs is a failure. I admit this because there's no shame in admitting the truth. But it's not because it's wrong to try stopping illegal drugs from getting into the country, it's that we entrust this war to politicians who have no leadership ability.

Even among those who support government aid, there is an admission among almost all these supporters that we're spending way too much to help people and there's way too much fraud. But one side wants to do away with aid entirely and that leads the other side to fight to protect what we have even when half of what we spend on aid to help the poor and disabled is lost to fraud and they know it. They are so afraid that if they give an inch their opposition will take a mile that they would rather spend this country into financial ruin hurting all of us than to at least fight against the fraud which we cannot afford and is destroying the very ability of this country to provide for those in need long into the future.

In the same way, most who oppose the war on drugs are people who see things like marijuana as harmless when all the facts tell us it affects everyone differently. In fact, the most laughable aspect of those who want to make marijuana legal are those who say it doesn't affect them at all in a negative way who try to make us believe it doesn't affect anyone in a negative way rather than support real life resolutions where people who want access to marijuana can have access... but take responsibility for those who cannot smoke it responsibly such as supervised parties and new laws to punish abusers.

The war on drugs is a failure because our leaders are a failure and those who want currently illegal drugs made legal are equally failing because their views cannot be accepted by most which empowers failed leaders to continue this farce.

The war on drugs can be won and people who want more access to recreational drugs can get what they want as well.

But in order to get what each side wants requires intellect, maturity and a willingness to admit you are wrong when you are wrong which it seems none of these people on either side are willing to do.