The Drug Quagmire

As part of a national campaign to raise awareness about drug policy in the United States, the nonprofit group Marijuana Policy Project recently released a short YouTube film entitled "The Drug War in 100 Seconds." Comprised of excerpts from eco-author Michael Pollan's book "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World" narrated over a backdrop of images of paraphenilia, propaganda and prisoners, the video speaks to the government's fundamentally imbalanced approach to drug legislation - from its disproportionate emphasis on marijuana over more dangerous drugs to the flooding of prisons with nonviolent "criminals" to the threats posed to the Bill of Rights. Yet another example of the futility of engaging in military operations against abstract nouns.

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