War on Drugs has been dragging on for many decades. Although the term was first coined in 1971 by Richard Nixon, its policies have been pursued with escalating force since the early years of the twentieth century. Were we to apply objective measures, we would rapidly abandon both the rhetoric and the practices of this war. Were we to judge according to ethics and humane feeling, we would find the War abhorrent. “The single most conspicuous feature of wars is violence,” writes Bruce Alexander in his book Peaceful Measures: Canada’s Way Out of the “War on Drugs”: War mentality cleaves the world
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