There has been unimpeded access to all illegal drugs for decades. 40 years and a trillion wasted dollars did not even slow down drug availability.
55% of Coloradans decided the cure (WOD) is worse than the disease. That is why Colorado used the political process to change the law.
Any argument to get that drug. That is how powerful it is.
There is no waste in spending money to prevent a drug damaged culture. The corrupt politicians want people spending their time in a stupor. It was not stopped due to politicians wanting the money. Aerial spraying of the farms, more severe penalties for possession would have further reduced the use. The President of Columbia offered to allow the U.S. to send helicopters to spray the fields it was stopped. The Taliban stopped the poppy production and we went to war against them. The U.S. marines were destroying the poppy fields in Afghanistan and they were ordered to stop. We are now treated to pictures of Marines walking through the poppy fields filled with blooming heroin poppy’s. There has never been a real war on drugs. Don’t give me the phony argument a war on drugs does not work. It could be stopped in six months with a real attack on production of supply and severe penalties for the demand side. There has been a “Media Boom” advocating Marijuana use over the last few years. The problem is political and social and needs addressing.
One can never totally eliminate vice one can only prevent its spread to the healthy portions of society.