After 100 years of drug prohibition

It's amazing how little has changed when you look at the time and background of our current drug laws.Because hard drugs haven't changed in percentage of population in that 100 years and really are the same as they were before the tax act that began the prohibition.It's hard to see what all the fuss is about?There's also the fact that drugs were kept in the poor areas and amongst the blacks and hispanics until the sixties when all manner of social change split the continent in half.With more than 50% of the people either using or having used drugs it is puzzling that the other half of the population gets their way and the half that uses and to a small extent abuses drugs is persecuted to the point that it's considered alright to do all manner of despicable things to them.Now we once again have a conservative government that loves to tell us how to live and does not hesitate to use force to get it's way.Even though a majority of the public is and has been ready for decriminalization for almost 35 years,this bunch of born again zealots has introduced mandatory minimums even as the US is beginning to see how disastrous this kind of sentence is.The government has apologised for almost every racist action taken in the early 20th century.The one exception is the laws against drug use that were the result of racism and fear of other races.The government never mentions this and always alludes to some non existant cause that demanded that anti drug laws be passed.This is not true and the evidence is all over the web if you have the notion to look it up.Or you can continue to be prejudiced towards a majority of Canadians who just want to live and let live.Prohibition is the most expensive,least effective and most cruel way to not deal with the drug issue.It suits Harper and company just fine.They think that a lie becomes truth if it's repeated often and loudly enough.It's working for them so far because you let it.