A Comically Dishonest Defense of the Drug WarScott Morgan Seriously, just take for example this one item from Sabets list of things he likes about the drug war: Intervention: If individuals do start to use drugs, we know that brief interventions (by doctors, coaches, parents, faith leaders, or others) do a pretty good job at stopping the progression of use from non-dependence to addiction. Others!? Really, Kevin? By others did you by any chance mean cops with machine guns, battering rams, drug sniffing dogs, and flash bang grenades? Cause if you wanna talk about interventionwell thats whos been intervening. When the government hears you might have MARIJUANA in your basement, they dont send a faith leader to talk to you about it. You can try to paint over prohibition, but youll need a whole hell of a lot of spackle to stuff the bullet holes. The drug war isnt just a big counseling program, its a bloody f#%king mess and everybody knows thats what it is because we get our news from watching the damn news, not from reading Kevin Sabet for breakfast. After all, if you cant acknowledge the very worst about the drug war when defending it, you arent really defending it at all. If responsible adults dont get roughed up and arrested for taking drugs in Kevin Sabets essays and speeches, then it stands to reason that responsible adults shouldnt have to get roughed up and arrested for taking drugs in real life either. Follow Scott Morgan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/drugblogger. Please visit StopTheDrugWar.org to support ending prohibition. You can support this information by voting on Reddit HERE linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 