Oil, coal and ANWR: Just the facts, Ma'am

As a police officer and detective, I learned how much crime was caused by prohibition/war on drugs (circa 70% of all felonies). I also saw how my profession became completely bonkers on making a pot bust vs a DUI arrest. (pot bust equals easy bust, good overtime and possibility of civil asset forfeiture: all a DUI arrest did was save a life)

With all due respect to T.P. Beh he should know that drug prohibition is a nanny-state liberal policy whereby the govt threatens adult citizens with punishment and backs it up w/ govt police, prosecutors and prisons. Beh's position is as valid as though who believe in national health care. I just know it is a horrific, bad policy which does no good.

For fiscal conservatives what part of a 1.1 trillion spent in 40 years do you feel good about? Drugs today are cheaper, stronger and easily available to our children.

Someone tell me one positive outcome of Modern Prohibition. For T.P. Beh how do you balance the morality of your position with the fact that children are shot every day in America because the policy generates a job option which today means 900,000 teens are employed as drug dealers? Is it not immoral to have a policy which offers a job option for 13 y/o which gets several killed every week?