Replace the War On Drugs with sensible regulation and social programs

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The so-called War On Drugs in the USA has been very harmful to society. I don't see the sense of labeling drug addicts criminals and putting them in prison. Alcoholics—booze addicts—aren't called felons and put in prison. My father was an alcoholic, and his years of drinking in the 1950s caused himself and our family a lot of grief before he joined Alcoholics Anonymous and achieved sobriety. Thank goodness he was never put in prison for drinking beer. And I was not imprisoned for smoking cigarettes when I was addicted to nicotine. Why put narcotics addicts in prison? Treating potheads as criminals makes even less sense.