Another essay from J.H.. More below:
" and so are today's leaders (from the White House to nearly all local governments), who are keeping us mired in the longest, most costly, and most futile war in U.S. history: the drug war. As one adamant opponent of this ongoing madness put it, "I cannot help but wonder how many more lives, and how much more money, will be wasted before another Robert McNamara admits what is plain for all to see: the War on Drugs is a failure. Americans are paying too high a price in lives and liberty for a failing War on Drugs, about which our leaders have lost all sense of proportion."

That was no ex-hippie stoner expressing himself through a haze of herbal smoke. It was America's "Uncle Walter," the journalistic icon Walter Cronkite, calling earlier this year for a new truthfulness and sanity in American drug policy.

There has been a slowly mounting effort to rid our country of alcohol, all sorts of advertising. The shock/horror when the English Asst Chief Surgeon said alcohol and cigs are more damaging than marijuana was amusing to watch. A few reached for their prescribed drugs when they read that.

Great clip mcsmithblack, thanks