Claims: The War Of Attrition

The main claim that I am presenting is that the war on drugs is not only unneeded but harmful to our society. The mainstay of this idea is that since the war on drugs started in 1970 no conclusive evidence that this supposed war is actually beneficial. It has also turned into something to use billions of tax dollars to combat an enemy that is both, mostly excepted, and consists of millions, if not billions, of unaffiliated people in this underground economy.
For the purposes of condensation I will mainly focus on marijuana as it is the drug most debated and has a hold on both the legal and medical side of the debate.



However, Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). AKA the Drug Czar gave some numbers at a conference in 2007.

"There are some 25 million problem drug users. But let's keep this in perspective - that's less than 0.6% of the world's population. Even if you take into account the number of people who take drugs at least once a year (approximately 200 million people), this is still below 5% of everyone on the planet.

By comparison, 50% of the world's population uses alcohol, and 30% smoke. Alcohol, we know, kills 2.5 million people a year. More than half of all homicides and road-accidents, and most domestic violence, is alcohol-related. Tobacco kills 5 million people a year, because of cardio-vascular diseases and cancer -- two of the greatest killers of our time."

http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm

With spending like this it appears this will go on until someone runs out of money, and as of right now i would say the government can never match a global economy.