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their experiences as teenagers. As unscientific as my poll is, the results are overwhelming among people 20 to 50 years old. It is easier for kids to get drugs than beer. If that actually is the situation, we might do well to consider treating drugs more like beer.
The National Household Drug Abuse Survey, last time I looked, reported that over ninety-percent of people not using drugs wouldn’t even try them—even if they were legal. Apparently, anyone who wants drugs can already get them— including children. That’s the problem. Our national drug policy is a total failure at what should be its primary mission: keeping drugs out of the hand of children.
Regarding the peace, let’s look at what we’ve achieved with our international drug policy: A million refugees in Columbia; forty-percent of the country held by rebels; 50 years bringing democracy to the Americas, and we give billions—as current events in Peru attest—to nations so corrupt that their leaders hold power through vigilante death squads that vie for the same drug trade we pay them to
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