The Reason 7/11 Is Open 24 Hours...
…is because somebody somewhere wants to buy a can of Pringles at 3 o’clock in the morning.
And, obviously, it’s not just one person. There is a real demand for being able to go out and buy a fill-in-blank in the middle of the night being met by corner stores, grocery stores, and all sorts of places.
We often hear politicians bragging about America being the Land of Opportunity, that as a culture we believe in supply and demand, that America’s pro-business attitude is good for the economy, good for everybody.
Why then do we refuse to apply that logic to the “drug problem”? Accepting that some folks ruin their lives by overuse of drugs and immediately jumping to prohibition as the solution makes no sense, especially in America.
We should know, when the demand for marijuana and other drugs is great enough, it doesn’t matter how hard you attack the supply side of the equation. That’s just a waste of time and money (not to mention human lives).
Let’s take 10% of what we spend on the War on Drugs, put it towards rehabilitation programs for those who are willing to participate, and use the rest for something else.
