"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Unintended Consequences Of The War On Drugs
"We’ve been fighting a war on drugs for 30 years, and the drugs are winning. There is ample evidence that the harm from illegal drugs comes more from the fact that they are illegal than that they are drugs."
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The relative dangers vs benefits of individual drugs only matters if you buy into the myth that either prohibition or its spin-off war was ever meant to protect people from drugs. Prohibition is, and always has been, a tool of oppression. And you don't wage war on people to protect them; you wage war on people to take what they have or destroy it. And while politicians posture and pose and make speeches about sending messages to children and "diverting" drug users into treatment, the guys with the guns (oddly enough, they still call themselves "peace officers") make no bones about why they're breaking into your home -- they're there to destroy your life. And they do it for one reason: Because they can.