Quincy, your guess is probably as good as mine re: why the domestic 'war on drugs'. Personally, I think it has to do with phony prissy attitudes toward "proper behavior", an unrealistic vision with regard to history (drug use has been with us for centuries), the failure of the *real* war on drugs, and the tendency to blame anything and everything for the ills of our society rather than taking a hard look at reality. During the 50's and 60's, many of us were drug users of one sort or another, but very few of us were violent or even socially unacceptable. Things have changed with the swinging of the pendulum, and pouncing on prescription drugs was an easy "Aha!" Unfortunately, the idiots who did that createed a whole new category of "soft domestic criminal", and one can only hope that someone, sometime, will do a little head-smacking and come to their senses.

In the 20th century we went from having cocaine in Coca-Cola, lithium in 7-Up, and doctor's advertising the merits of smoking one brand of cigarettes over another, to a goof-ball actor president telling physicians how to treat their patients, and television convincing us that we all needed SSRI anti-depressants, and proton pump inhibitors to counteract the GERD engendered by our Run-For-The-Border fast-food lifestyle! Let's hope the pendulum swings the other way sometime *very* soon!