Both ends of the political continuum seem to support throwing in the towel on at least some of the fronts on the war against drugs.

Of the various election returns that mystified me from the most recent November plebiscite, the most confounding was the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington. It's not that I don't have some libertarian leanings - I do - but the legalization of drugs isn't one of them. To me, a simple historical example, the Opium Wars, settled the issue of decriminalizing drugs for all time given the relatively unchanging disposition of human nature.

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