Best Article I've Read In A While

This article is great, it lists all the points I would make if I was making an essay on the war on drugs for the average High School/College student.
The War on Weed: Marijuana Is Basically Harmless -- The Monumentally Stupid Drug War Is Not | | AlterNet

Here's a great excerpt
In September, the useful and always vigilant Sen. Russ Feingold revealed that the Justice Department was perverting a dangerous provision in the infamous Patriot Act of 2001 for use in non-terrorism cases. "Sneak-and-peek" search warrants (based on a liberty-busting provision allowing police agents to break into a home or other private facility and search the premises without the owner's knowledge) were supposed to be reserved for extraordinary investigations into suspected terrorist activity. However, Feingold found that of the Justice Department's 763 requests last year for such searches, only three involved terrorism cases--while 65% of the sneakandpeeks were used in drug-war investigations, including pursuit of marijuana "criminals."