For a long time it's been obvious for anyone with eyes to see that the "war on drugs" causes infinitely more harm than do the drugs themselves.
It's due to the courage of a few people bold enough to speak out that the issue is gradually making its way into the mainstream.
The courage of folks like Marc Emery and Wally Tucker before him, folks who paid a steep personal price to speak the truth.
Their cause is now being taken up by police chiefs and attorneys general.
Newspapers of record in both Canada and the US have recently published editorials that question the wisdom of our present course in the war on drugs. The simplest barometer of how well the 40 year old war is working can be found at your local high school.
Can the kids still get drugs?
You bet they can, and the drugs are cheaper and more potent.
There is no valid argument whatsoever to continue on the course that we've been on these last forty years.
The drugs war is on the agenda in Colombia this weekend, where only Obama and his trusty parrot Prime Minister Harper will be arguing for staying the course.
And once the mainstream opinion makers are questioning the war on drugs, our leaders will eventually follow.
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