The war on drugs revisited

One has to draw the line. Is drug abuse an American problem or a world problem?

Depending on your answer, is it a nation state threatening problem, or a more treatable American problem; that is in 2007 do rehab medical centers make more sense than jail? Maybe it is some combination of the two? The aforementioned point is so naïve. Of course smart leaders through out the world use all tricks in our bag of tricks to preserve the basics like Family security, propagation of our young, and support of basic nation state ideas like life, liberty , and the pursuit of happiness. Even those who vote for the medical treatment approach have a point. Those of us who have done a drug shakedown of our kids also have a point.

Here in America the idea of abandoning Baghdad is suddenly more apropos to New Orleans, and drugs have much to do with this. So maybe this problem is bigger than America?

Afghanistan is reverting to being a narco-state. It is hard to repress humanity. Those growing poppy need to support their families, and dependents of the resulting drugs need the drug. If it were not a narco-state, then it would still not be a nation-state. The old days of supply and demand expressed through the low-lifes and tribal enterprises still survive. So what is the world coming too? Actually it is being normal, which is bad.

We, the greater humanity, have an interest in controlling drug abuse if we want to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. That’s it, pure and simple. The problem is a world problem, not an American problem.

How the war on drugs is pursued will be local, and hopefully balanced depending on local conditions. But most importantly, we of the world have to decide, as local governments, if we want to go forward as nation-states, or do we have another way more tribal? Just who is in charge? The maybe corrupt politicians, or the local drug lords?

This drug problem is so much bigger than America. How we do our part is always up for debate.

Right now let us do our American part, what ever that is. My vote is to be ruthless about making drug abuse; user, distributor, and further up the food chain, financier, illegal. Leave my child alone. The burden should not be on parents.