The only economic factor I care about are actual market demands. Every attempt, via Keyensian economic "stimulation," will ultimately have unintended (and often worse) consequences than allowing the market to do its thing to begin with.
Bear in mind I used to be a Houston police officer. Subsequent to that, I was a nurse. I know first hand the effects drugs have on people. But I also have first hand experience with what the war on drugs has done to police departments around the country, and I like that far less than what a few idiots do to themselves and/or their families.
It is not the government's business to save us from ourselves. That always devolves into criminalizing activities which merely offend people's sensibilities. I dislike the idea of putting people in cages because some other people were offended (not injured, mind, but merely offended) by what they did. "Society" cannot be injured, only individuals can. There are already legal remedies for wives/children who are physically harmed or neglected. We don't need drugs criminalized in order to avail ourselves of those remedies.
But even more than local police, what has the WoD done as far as the federal government believing (and many of us cheering it, btw) it can do WRT over-stepping its bounds? As stupid as Prohibition was, at least there was a constitutional amendment authorizing it. There is nothing in the US constitution which authorizes this "war," and that's a far worse thing than the drugs themselves.
My apologies if this comes across as bristly or hostile.
