Phillip J. Watt, Contributor
Waking Times
The war-on-drugs has been one of the biggest policy failures of modern society. It amplifies drug-related problems and doesn’t recognize that altered states of consciousness play a perfectly natural role within the human experience.
It is clear that many governments of the world have failed to truly accept some extremely important facts around dealing with the substances that make their way through our communities. Examples include:
- Laws have criminalized drugs into one of the top five industries in the world, ensuring all its activity is managed within the black market;
- When you send this industry underground it’s going to result with impure, unsafe and unnecessary substances on the market;
- Drug policies result with more socioeconomic issues and increases the amount of crime and unnecessary incarcerations in our societies;
