Withdrawal Symptoms.

I've blogged about the ludicrous money pit that is the War on Drugs previously.

Yesterday, I saw where retired Seattle police chief Norm Stamper agreed:

From HuffPo: 

If it accomplished nothing else, the recent rumpus over a gold-plated athlete's bong hit brings into sharp relief the need for a national, rational gut-check about America's drug policy.

But when?

We are, after all, a little busy at the moment. Struggling to hold onto our jobs, our homes, our automobiles. Our 401ks. Our children's lunch and college money. At the moment, forty-six million Americans without health insurance pray to make it through another day without stepping in front of a bus or being laid low by catastrophic illness. Energy needs and the environment vie unendingly for our attention. Terrorism, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may have been reduced, temporarily, to background noise, the result of primal economic fears, but national security concerns still loom large.

So, what's so urgent about drug policy reform?  

Find out more here and here.