Should the authorities admit defeat in the war on drugs?

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This article shows that the drug trade is really taking the p*ss now.

Cannabis found in city pots

Surely if people are cultivating it in such an open way then it is clear the authorities have no chance in ever stopping this industry.

Should the authorities admit defeat in the war on drugs?

Yes but they won't.

LOL. Possibly but those plants had been growing a few months from the looks of them before anyone noticed. But I suppose most people don't know what cannabis plants look like.

This happened in my country too:

Prankster plants pot...

I love it! This is a great form of peaceful protest.

Dont you think admitting defeat is something beautiful?
They say a samurai bloomed at the moment of his death which didnt last long.
I have always admired the samurais whom kills themselves instead of accepting shame.

I actually belive that I have the problems that I have, and that we have Aspergers is because we are reasonable with the NTs and they do not accept defeat and "kill" themselves metaphorically. Which makes us suffer much more than we should. I am quite sure that there was a time when I had above 120 IQ while now they say I have 70. Loss.

The samurai should have grown themselves some weed and got stoned, they might have calmed down a fair bit and stopped chopping heads off everywhere they went.

death is not a problem. Pain is a problem. Therefore you need weed. But if there is no pain. I dont mind a life where there is birth and death.

As one Zen Buddhist told me once: It is not life and death. It is birth and death. Because you dont have to be alive.

The "war on drugs" in the US is a sham. If they ended it tomorrow (they won't) I wouldn't mind one little bit.

But then what about all the prison guards, judges, probation/parole officers, and prosecutors that'd lose their jobs?

I personally hope our incarceration rate goes to 1000 per 1000K, just so we can create more jobs and have our great wonderful government workers have nice jobs with good wages.

The new economy.

No, they should keep fighting the war, but do a 180 degree turn with their strategy.

Make dangerous drugs which are in demand for recreational use available in pharmacies over the counter (with or without prescription, but with a considerable but not excessive fee attached). Like most drugs, they'd need to be sold with a booklet explaining dosage, how to take them safely, and the risks and side effects. One idea could be creating new clinics to give this advice and hand out prescriptions to people who'd been informed.

Anyway, there's much more money to be made selling drugs and treating addicts than there is locking people up.

Combined US prison budget for 2009: ~$60 billion (https://sites.google.com/site/education ... ison-sytem)
US spend on illegal drugs: ~$65 billion http://www.justice.gov/dea/ops/money.shtml

And that's without considering the jobs that would open up, particularly in healthcare.

(Assuming that in both cases, the private sector would be benefiting from the spending and not the public sector)

The real reason that the government will not admit defeat in the "War on Drugs" is that the leaders of the government would have to admit that they had been beaten by people on drugs!