The war on drugs is not a failure. It’s doing exactly what it was built to do: control people, criminalize dissent, protect profits, and dress all of it up as “public health” and “public safety.” Calling it a failure implies good intentions gone wrong. The record is a lot uglier than that. If you’re an…
The war on drugs is not a policy failure; it’s a policy success for exactly the people it was built to serve: politicians who need a scapegoat, police departments hungry for budgets, private prisons looking for bodies, and corporations that profit off both legal and illegal markets. It is, however, an absolute catastrophe for everyone…
The United States didn’t just “stumble” into the War on Drugs. It was built, step by step, on laws that turned patients into criminals, doctors into suspects, and entire communities into targets. One of the most important—and least understood—of those laws is the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Tax Act. On paper, it was a tax and…