Reason Magazine: 'Ending the Global Drug War: Voices from the Front Lines'

Source:Reason Magazine- covering the War on Drugs.

"Ever since the War on Drugs, everything has hit the fan," says Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner of India. Rather than continue the unnecessary and costly drug war, Bhattacharji advises the United States to simply "Relax, take it easy, [and] tolerate."

Last month, at the Cato Institute's "Ending the Global War on Drugs" conference, Bhattacharji's sentiments were echoed by ex-drug czars, cops, politicians, intellectuals, liberal and conservative journalists, and even the former President of Brazil. Reason.tv attended the event and spoke with a number of the featured speakers, including... 

From Reason Magazine

When people on the front line of the War on Drugs (the so-called drug Warriors) say that the War on Drugs is failing or failed, we should listen to these people because they are fighting the War on Drugs for us. They are our  so-called drug warriors who fight this failed war for us that was declared by President Nixon forty years ago. 

All we've gotten out of this so-called war is 1T$ spent and turning drug addicts into criminals and throwing people in prison for what they do to themselves. Even if they haven't hurt anyone else with what they are doing. Thats exactly what Big Government is about whether it comes from the Far-Left or Far- Right in the War on Drugs.

Big Government is about power, the Power of Government to be able to control how its own people live their lives. Some people especially on the Right who tend to be economic Libertarians, but not Libertarian on social issues, say Big Government is about money and it takes a lot of people's money away from them, for the government to control in order to control society and make people dependent on Big Government. But money is just the tool, a big tool but a tool to finance the power of Big Government. The War on Drugs case in point: it's all about power the power for Big Government to control how individuals live their own lives.