Cannabis farm found in Woolston (From Warrington Guardian)

Can you keep drugs out of prison? No.
Even the most high security prisons? No. If you cant keep them out of prisons who is delusional enough to think we can keep them out of a free society?
Will humans stop taking drugs? No. The known history of the human species shows this to be true. The concept of a 'drug war', or whatever you choose to call this, is to eliminate drugs from society, is this possible? No. So surely the question is: if we accept cannabis, ecstasy, alcohol, opiates etc cannot be removed from the dictionary who do we want in control of this market?

What happens when a drug dealer is arrested/imprisoned? Nothing, another individual takes their place. 'Gangsters' will stay 'gangsters', many individuals involved in drug crime are opportunists, not 'gangsters' . There is a massive difference.
Legalisation of drugs is not about the drugs, but about the 'gangsters' and terrorism it funds, including the violence, destruction, death, fear etc all created by prohibition.
A large % of those asked reply that 'curiosity' is a major factor in using drugs. I would not be typing this and you reading this without curiosity.
Robert Peel designed a type of law enforcement that protected people from other people doing them harm. When you institute a prohibition you are not protecting people from other people but protecting people against themselves. Protecting people from themselves is a function of family, church, education and the health care system; it never is and never should have been intended to be a law enforcement function. Law is attempting to enforce morality; the police are not trained to do this, they are not capable of this and most importantly it has been an abject failure of the worst kind.
Will legalisation increase drug use? No. Does everyone smoke tobacco? No. Drink alcohol? No. coffee? No. Eat fast food? No. If prohibition is such a good idea why not apply this to tobacco and alcohol? Because it would not work. why then would it work for other drugs?
Even 'god', the creator of man and women, bestowed us free will. Prohibition removes this god given right. People choose to take drugs. Fact
The first prohibition; do these words sound familiar to anyone: Do not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Heard that phrase before? First prohibition and the first example of zero tolerance, little bite, big bite from the apple doesn’t matter you are out of the garden.
How many people had to be watched to make that prohibition work, two, no other names just adam and eve. How many trees of knowledge were in the garden, one, who was the cop for that one? The all seeing eye/god almighty; only had top watch two people and one tree. God could not enforce this prohibition. If you read this story it tells you why it failed; after the creator created the creator granted something to the creation, and that was called free will – the right to choose whether or not they ate from the tree, because without that what point was there planting the tree as there would be no test. This is what drives the drug trade – people choosing to take drugs whether the governments like it or not.