Drug War Explained

Thoreau over at Unqualified Offerings has a couple of excellent posts worth reading, including You can’t spell “defeat” without D, E, and A and…
Drug War Explained:

A friend who doesn‰t pay much attention to law and politics asked me what would happen if he had a marijuana plant in his house. Here‰s the answer I gave him:

• Masked men with guns would break down your door.
• They would confiscate your assets.
• They would drag you away in front of your family.
• They would lock you in a cage with violent criminal gangs.
• They would do these things because if you were allowed to grow and use that plant then something bad might happen.

He didn‰t quite know what to make of that.