Conservative Nonsense in the War on Drugs

[NVMojo]

Conservatives never cease to fascinate me, given their professed devotion to “freedom, free enterprise, and limited government” and their ardent support of policies that violate that principle. One of the most prominent examples is the drug war. In fact, if you’re ever wondering whether a person is a conservative or a libertarian, a good litmus-test question is, How do you feel about the war on drugs? The conservative will respond, “Even though I believe in freedom, free enterprise, and limited government, we’ve got to continue waging the war on drugs.” The libertarian will respond, “End it. It is an immoral and destructive violation of the principles of freedom, free enterprise, and limited government.”

The most recent example of conservative drug-war nonsense is an article entitled “Winning the Drug War,” by Jonathan V. Last in the current issue of The Weekly Standard, one of the premier conservative publications in the country. In his article, Last cites statistics showing that drug usage among certain groups of Americans has diminished and that supplies of certain drugs have decreased. He says that all this is evidence that the war on drugs is finally succeeding and that we just need to keep waging it for some indeterminate time into the future, when presumably U.S. officials will finally be able to declare “victory.”

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger75.html

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Statistics

"drug usage among certain groups of Americans" - Down 0.2% among non-white Norwegian immigrants!
"supplies of certain drugs have decreased" - Peyote down 2%, Meth up 25%

OK I made those up, but the qualifiers are hilariously transparent.

[rodeodance]

2. would need to know how many non-white Norwegian immigrants! we have

to start with.

Down 0.2% among non-white Norwegian immigrants!

[rodeodance]

3. jesting also.