"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
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...I use "War on (Some) Drugs" to more accurately describe what it is.
Alcohol, tobacco, other chemicals aren't included even though their
effects are at least as bad as some of the ones that are currently
illegal....

Alcohol and tobacco are good choices to demonstrate the demented hypocrisy
that currently governs both public sentiment and governmental policies
toward elective drug use because of the ambivalence both engender. Even
better, from another point of view, is the most popular (by far) drug in the
world.....caffeine.....no slouch in the potency and addiction departments.

Wolfgang
who knows that, sham though it is, even the fiction of a "war on drugs"
would be utterly impossible to maintain without a plentiful supply of strong
black coffee to get through those long, tedious stakeouts.