For all my conservative rantings, I agree that the "war on drugs" is totally misguided. It seems we didn't learn a lesson from Prohibition. I don't know what liquor and tobacco taxes bring in a year, but it seems we could do something similar with marijuana. Limit personal production to a set amount (I think home-brewed beer is untaxed to fifty gallons in Texas, anything over that you cross into a commercial product), slap a tax on the rest.

Coke, heroin, and some of the other hard stuff I have mixed feelings about. We've made a mess of our southern-hemispheric neighbors trying to get them to eradicate cocoa production, and Bolivia just elected a president who ran on a platform of allowing cocoa growing. So maybe that's allowed too, but it has some bad long-term effects. Meth - that stuff's just plain evil, but having to sign for a box of Psuedafed in the drug store is pretty silly. I don't know what the right answer for those types of drugs are, but the "war on drugs" is definitely not working; it's time we looked at alternatives.