How Should Our Society Deal With People Who Use Drugs? [1]

[2]Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance [3]
Waking Times [4]

The war on drugs is a cruel joke. The U.S. spends more than $50 billion a year on the “war on drugs” with the goal of creating a “drug-free society” – yet there has never been a “drug-free society” in the history of civilization. Virtually all of us take drugs every single day.  Caffeine, sugar, alcohol, marijuana, Prozac, Ritalin, opiates [5] and nicotine are just some of the substances that Americans use on a regular basis.

Drugs are so popular because peo...