The War on Drugs (n.) is a disgrace in that it makes young people into criminals, denies people medicine, is responsible for thousands of deaths, and billions of dollars in lost taxable revenue.
The War on Drugs (n.) puts government in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail.
The War on Drugs (n.) has turned the u.S. Into an armed camp with jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
The War on Drugs (n.) is morally wrongheaded in that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.
The War on Drugs (n.) is responsible for the invention of crack, the creation of addicts, and narco-terrorism in south America.
The War on Drugs (n.) is such that criminalization converts the personal tragedy into a disaster for society.
The War on Drugs (n.) is such that if even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.
The War on Drugs (n.) is such that, from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel.
The War on Drugs (n.) is to be opposed on because it hasn't worked, but on moral reasons: The state has any more right to tell me what to put into my mouth than it has to tell me what can come out of my mouth.
The War on Drugs (n.) is wrongheaded in that many of its victims are the indirect result of its being prohibited, from purse snatching, to corruption, to taxation for more prisons, to a diversion of law enforcement officials from other work.