The biggest problem in the drug war ideology is the "make it illegal" philosophy. Large portions of society have this mentality that if something is harmfull, just make it illegal, simple as that! They make a vague, generalized concept in their head that making a substance illegal is an attack on the substance. In reality it's an attack on PEOPLE. When making something illegal, we shouldn't be considering what it's doing to this bad substance, but what it's doing to the thousands and thousands of people who will be victimized by the legal system, given jailtime and criminal records for making a health decision the government doesn't agree with.

As far as I'm concerned, the government has no business in our personal health decisions, nor does it have the right to persecute individuals for how they choose to live their lives. It's never so simple as "make it illegal". Consider every person you know who's smoked a cigarette or had a drink and think to yourself "does he/she deserve to go to jail and be deemed a criminal?"