The Drug Trade

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/07/2012721152715628181.html

Well, the simplest thing to this is that you can't fight the drug trade.  Even other animals seek out mind-altering experiences, sometimes at their own physical and psychological detriment.

Rather, the more effective thing to do, for everyone (including for us here in the United States), would be to legalize and decriminalize the drug trade such that we can more effectively get help to those who are using (drying up the market forces behind the drug trade), eliminate the criminal ends of the operations that inevitably spring up when you have something high in demand like illegal drugs and save billions of dollars in tax payer money that could otherwise be used for more effective social and economic policies for the benefit of the people and the leadership savvy enough to realize this.

It's a question of math and figuring out the empirical causes to the issues that we're experiencing in this world, and then developing effective policy regimens to combat them.  A lot like a doctor coming up with a prescription regimen for a person that has chronic illnesses.

We can't get rid of all the problems in the world.  Human error and random events are always going to plague us and our species living on this planet.  But we can do our best in spite of these difficulties and live relatively comfortable lives as a species, individually and collectively, on this tiny little rock in space that we call home, and beyond.

It's not a question of opinion or bias.

It's a question of doing what actually works best in the world around you.

And it's only in our brains that it really matters otherwise.

Silly brains.

Think about it!