America seems to have to have a war on everything and everybody for the past 4 decades.

I have taught in the schools since 1981 and run my own music school for the past 25 yrs and I can confirm that the only achievements the war has produced is to fill up the privatized for profit prison system with essentially non-violent slave labor.

Not only that, but this "War" has only made it easier for our kids to get any kind of drugs than it is to get their hands on a 6pack of Coors. All while introducing them to criminals. I guess you could call it a "practical" education.

Canada is in the process of legalizing Pot which can only be a good thing but I feel it does not go far enough. We should follow the example of Portugal where they legalized all drugs and took the money spent on enforcement and put it into education and health care and they have all but eliminated the drug addition issues.

Americans seem to have this crazy idea that we have to legislate morality and it just ends up costing the tax payer billions with absolutely the wrong results.