Our Drug War is the Definition of Stupid

Stupid. What is the definition of stupid. When you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result; that is the definition of stupid. Drug Wars. Have you noticed that there are tunnels going from Mexico to the U.S. in the news. Have you noticed that billions of dollars are spent each year on pot dispite billions of dollars spent trying to stop it. Have you noticed that this has been going on for 40 plus years. We keep doing the same thing for 40 years and expecting a differnt result and somehow we are amazed that we get the same result.

Do you know what a proportional control is? Say you want to control the amount of water being pumped into a tank. You have a level control that reads the differnece between the tank being full, where you want it, and the actual level. the bigger the differnce, the more the value is opened to allow water into the tank. Drugs. Pot. People want them. when you disrupt the supply, the demand goes up. the proportional controller notices the gap between supply and demand and opens up the valve. Close down a tunnel, the price of drugs go up, and another 10 tunnels are dug. In reality, most drugs are just brought over on cars going across the border legally.

So, what is the drug war all about. More than half of American adults have tried pot. Should we put them all in prision, or continue to just put the poor and minorities in prison. The Great Wall of Mexico, perhaps that would fix it. Rememeber the proportional controller. Remember the definition of being stupid.

Our drup policy is stupid. We are stupid. We somehow are unable to stop the pattern. What amazes me is that we just keep doing the same thing year after year. I guess being amazed year after year, means that I am stupid -- it fits the definition. But, what about our system lets something continue that makes no sense. Is it the hypocritical nature of religion forcing itself upon our culture, our national vaules? Or, is it just plain dishonesty?

Guess how we end the insanity. We make pot legal. And the world ends, is that you think? Life as as we know it ends. No. Nothing happens. It is already happening. People already smoke pot. Dua. We smoke pots and we put blacks in jail for our sins. A sin that we create by our laws. Change the law, and it is no longer a sin. Perhaps a few less tunnels will be built. Perhaps less black will rot in prison. Perhaps the level of honesty in the Universe will increase. Probably not.

Stupidity, self righteousness as been around for a long time. It is probably too much to expect it to change.