and even sorrier that this type of thing is becoming all too frequent in America today. Much of it is being done to buy drugs. These drugs and the money that can be made selling them cause most of the street crime and street gangs in the US today. Our attempts to pursue a 'war on drugs' has caused this country to have the highest prison population, both in absolute numbers and ratio to the population, in the world.

The definition of insanity is, per Albert Einstein, "...continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results." We must come to grips with the fact that US citizens will continue to use drugs, even if they are illegal and legalize them and allow their sale by private businesses, just as we have done with alcohol. After prohibition ended, the street gang wars, policeraids and imprisonment of ordinary citizens stopped. We can do the same with drugs if we find it within ourselves to accept that we have been wronf for so long.