Del. Morhaim: The war on drugs has failed
Excellent post on the Audacious Ideas blog by Dan Morhaim, emergency medicine physician and state delegate from Baltimore County, on the failed war on drugs. Go read it.
Jammed prisons, AIDS, destroyed families, crime victims, terrorist funding: the toll is immense. Addiction treatment is a critical step but just a beginning. Isn’t it time our society had a full, open, honest, and intense discussion about drugs? Shouldn’t we admit that the War on Drugs has failed and that other policies deserve exploration?
The answer, of course, is hell yes. Carefully controlled legalization of heroin and cocaine would improve society from Baltimore to Mexico to Colombia to Afghanistan. It's a radical move, but it can't be any worse than what we have now. Just do it.






