Not to “both sides” this, but the war on drugs did have some legitimate motivations, they were just buried underneath the other larger and ultimately more important reasons: i.e. hurting communities of color, poor people, disenfranchising the young, etc.
The solution to the issue was never “end the war on drugs”, it was to scale it back and refocus it on the actual entities that create the problems. Don’t make certain drugs illegal, make them regulated and taxed to control their abuse from the distribution end.
Not to “both sides” this, but the war on drugs did have some legitimate motivations, they were just buried underneath the other larger and ultimately more important reasons: i.e. hurting communities of color, poor people, disenfranchising the young, etc.
The solution to the issue was never “end the war on drugs”, it was to scale it back and refocus it on the actual entities that create the problems. Don’t make certain drugs illegal, make them regulated and taxed to control their abuse from the distribution end.