Meddling Where We Oughtn't

John Wrisley comments on Fred's most recent column...

Writing from Mexico, commentator Fred Reed wonders about the money U.S. taxpayers spend fighting the drug cartels south of the border.    "One might ask: Why are drugs Mexico’s problem? Americans, huge numbers of them, want drugs. If they didn’t want drugs, the narcos couldn’t sell the stuff. But the American government doesn’t want its citizens to have drugs. Fine. Let the government attack its own citizens. Leave others out of it."

< The U.S. is totally resistant to the idea of taking control of the drug market.           Imagine taking the distribution of drugs out of the back alleys and putting it into drug stores where huge tax revenues could be channeled into anti-drug use advertising, rehab centers, etc.      Prohibition does not work.  The nation proved that to itself in the Roaring Twenties with its foolish experiment banning alcohol.  It was such a flop the Constitutional amendment creating prohibition had to be repealed in 1933.