The Voice Of The People
April, 1999
The holy war against drugs is increasingly about power, and that includes the power of various Beltway bureaucrats to enforce their will against the will of the people. The greatest victim may be democracy.In 1996 voters in Arizona and California went to the polls and, in sweeping victories, told Washington that federal drug policies--at least as they applied to marijuana for sick people--were wrong. From reefer madness to zero tolerance, from Nancy Reagan's "Just say no" to the Partne...
