For years the “War on Drugs” has been one of America’s greatest follies. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to enforce drug laws on Americans with no great change in use. This is the wrong way to handle such a problem.
Let’s compare drugs to roaches. You cannot possibly exterminate all of the roaches in your house by stomping on every roach that you see. Some roaches never come out in the light and some are eggs yet to hatch, these pests will never be caught even with the most watchful eye. You need to get an exterminator to come and spray the house and probably the outside of the house too, to keep them from coming back. To stop heroin and cocaine from being used in America, we must first eliminate its source.
The “War on Drugs” is not a war against Americans, it’s a war against drugs. The problem is that some Americans use drugs. How can we stop this?
There needs to be a multi-national policy instilled to control th
e production of drug crops. If you leave cookies on the counter over night you’re going to develop an infestation, and if you leave opiates to be produced all through Asia and cocaine to be grown in South America . . . Americans will get a hold of it.
Why be at war with drugs when we can learn to live with them in peace? I suggest a new three step policy to be implemented by the UN. The first step is to identify problem areas that are multi-national. Step two is to resolve these problems, perhaps by making the crops government controlled, or have farmers get special permits to grow selected crops. These permits would tell the government how much of which substance would be grown and officials could regulate and inspect production as frequently as found necessary. This way the governments can handle the dispersement and potency of the drugs. The need for a black market will fade quickly once things are more legal. The third step is to prevent renegade crops from be
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