Getting the easy ones

Rich Lowery has some common sense to offer on the War on Drugs

Marijuana is not harmless, and its use should be discouraged, but in the same way, say, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day should be discouraged. The criminal-justice system should stay out of it. Twelve states have decriminalized marijuana to varying degrees, fining instead of arresting people for possessing small amounts. They recognize that — as the authors of a new study for the conservative American Enterprise Institute argue — "the case for imposing criminal sanctions for possession of small amounts of marijuana is weak."

The WoD is an abject failure but I don’t see it ever coming to an end as too many make too much money off that particular teat to let it dry up. We should have a sound and reasoned drug policy and stop throwing good money after bad with zero results.

Yet another evil pot smoker in need of a manditory sentence.