Meth and murder: New kind of drug war makes Tijuana one of deadliest cities
The so-called drug war is a great tragedy. It is unwinnable because we can&#x27;t wage war against inanimate objects and expect to win. War-as-a-metaphor [1] is usually a bait-and-switch campaign: war on poverty, war on cancer, etc. Real wars are always between people. The so-called &quot;drug war&quot; is really a war on ourselves.<p>Johann Hari wrote a book about the futility of this particular societal auto-immune disease [1]. He points out that Portugal has decriminalized drug possession, and uses the resources that were formerly used to subjugate their struggling people to help them instead.<p>Switzerland has made heroin legally available to their hopeless addicts. Over the last 20+ years, they haven&#x27;t had many (any?) overdose deaths of the people in their legal heroin program.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;War_as_metaphor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;War_as_metaphor</a>
[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chasingthescream.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;chasingthescream.com&#x2F;</a><p>If the donkey party wanted to win in their ideological struggle against the elephant party, they&#x27;d make the case that the government should put the cartels out of business by taking care of our own addicts, and that it&#x27;s a better use of funds to put people in treatment programs than in prison.