The Freeway to Serfdom
"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." - P.J. O'Rourke
Friday, November 07, 2008
War on Drugs Fail

From a rather torqued-up report from CFRA's Gord McDougall:

Ottawa's youth drug problem is out of control.

That's the jarring statement from Ottawa's police chief. Vern White says it's time the people of Ottawa wake up and stop being complacent.

"There's not a grade 7 to 12 student in this city that couldn't buy drugs in about half an hour. Not one!", according to Chief Vern White.

[...]

"My goal is that people stop being shocked by that number, and instead, say that they're going to do something about it"


Like just legalizing the drug trade and getting rid of the violent, wasteful and corrupt black market that goes along with it?

The report leaves us hanging there, unfortunately, but we can safely assume he means more of the futile crackdowns undertaken barely a month before this tacit admission of abject failure.

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