tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5395552185256898073..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Criminal justice implications of 2008 elections from the courthouse to the WhitehoueGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-31734667311471707812008-11-10T06:47:00.000-06:002008-11-10T06:47:00.000-06:00I've always considered 'drug courts' to be little ...I've always considered 'drug courts' to be little more than a legal version of those little 'donut tires' that all new cars come with, nowadays. You can't go above 45 with them, or they shred themselves; all they do is allow you to limp along until you can get it replaced with the real thing.<BR/><BR/>In this case, 'drug courts' allow the continued 'limping along' of drug prohibition, which by its' very nature cannot possibly be effective, as its' nearly century-long history has proven (good people, <A HREF="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm" REL="nofollow">the Federal War on Drugs didn't start with Tricky Dick in 1968, but <I>Woodrow Wilson in 1914</I></A>). <BR/><BR/>IMHO, Drug courts are a tacit admission that the original system of 'lock 'em up for twenty years!' has been a gross failure...and by derivation, that the entire enterprise, itself, has also been a failure. <A HREF="http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/x835134670/Evans-Question-2-landslide-opens-drug-policy-debate" REL="nofollow">Which is now proving to be much too expensive to continue</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com