Drug abuse is a self-correcting problem. Its natural consequences are sure, swift, severe, and absolutely fair. Prohibition does no good and lots of harm. It ruins lives by imprisoning people who harmed nobody but themselves. It props up organized crime by making a product that the market would normally price at pennies cost hundreds of dollars, all due to the risk of selling an illegal product.

Get rid of the ONDCP. Get rid of the DEA. They serve no useful purpose and cause great harm. Completely deregulate all drugs. Perhaps there is a place for a state-run agency to help addicts to kick the habit, after they ASK for help, but that can probably better be handled by the market.

Cannabis (aka marijuana) is a nearly-harmless and greatly beneficial herb that should be available in the bulk aisle of the health food store for a few dollars an ounce, like oregano, only cheaper. Rick Simpson Oil (distilled cannabis flowers, aka hemp oil) should be available over the counter at the drug store for a few dollars a gram. It very likely cures cancer, among other things.

Non-psychoactive industrial hemp has myriad uses that are now too expensive to be realized due to the need to import hemp. Deregulate it domestically, and these will take off.

Hard drugs are not prevalent enough to worry about. If people want to kill themselves with opiates, let them. Hopefully before they manage to reproduce. Most will learn in time that drug abuse doesn’t serve them. And stop doing it.

Prohibition doesn’t work. End it.