Another Drug Czar

Like pretty much everything the government does, the “War on Drugs” that America has been waging for the past four decades is an incredibly expensive undertaking that has accomplished absolutely nothing.

Take the Clinton and Bush administration’s Plan Colombia, which spent $4.7 billion from 2000-2006 in an utterly failed effort to eradicate Colombian coca production.

Also, even if you assume that the government’s overly-optimistic estimates of intercepting 15% of heroin shipments and 30% of cocaine shipments coming into this country are accurate, drug-runners have such inflated gross profit margins that they make money even if only one of every four shipments gets through.

In other words, we’re not winning this war. In fact, we’re barely even fighting it.

That’s why the news that Seattle Police Chief R. Gil Kerlikowske has been named America’s “Drug Czar” means absolute squat.

American is chasing its tail, and it has been for decades.

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