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damage to our country would be even greater. And more effective prohibition is planed. Historians have documented America's experience with prohibition over the past two hundred years. The ebb and flow of prohibition and hysteria recurred in roughly thirty-year cycles: an uninformed or forgetfid public becomes indifferent to the dangers of rising governmental excesses only to recoil at its devastating consequences." And what this entails is also coincidental with the growth in bigger more intrusive government in the United Stales The motive of the drug barons, and the drug warriors is to keep there good thing going. Both the bazons and the wamors profit in huge sums; the growth of their'pension insurance' has reached such gargantuan proportions Uta[ US drug conswnption is at a level where 5% of the worlds population uses 50% of the worlds drugs. This War on Some Drugs could not have a more disastrous result. Unforhtnately for all Americans, the 1997 National Drug Control Strategy sets a demented course to continue The Waz on Some People Who Use Certain Drugs and its detrimental consequences. The Controlled Substances Act, Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, is the unconstitutional and hypocritical foundation of the government's Waz on Some Drugs. This law consolidates numerous regulations pertaining to the manufacture and distribution of narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, anabolic steroids, and chemicals used in the illicit production of controlled substances. This is the basis for The War on Some People Who Use Certain Dmgs Exemption to the Bill of Rights The federal An[i-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 established as a policy goal of the United States govemment the creation of a drug-free America. This is a state sponsored belief system, which is maiNy for the benefit of the vested interest of law enforcement, and the continuance of enormous profit for the drug baron merchants of death, who could only make such profit because of prohibition itself The Waz on Some People Who Use Certain Dmgs is only curtx:d by: reducing the number of drug warriors and the laws which spawn them; and this can only be done by de-glamorizing what has been the false glory and perks given to these destroyers of American civil liberties. The unfortunate fact is that due to constant media hype for over the counter medicines for every ill that Americans are so programmed to take drugs that drug use is so deeply embedded in society that we can not hope to eliminate it The goal of a drug free America is unrealistic and prohibitively expensive in the cos[ of civil liberties alone. The policy makers fee] [hat the problem can be solved in short order if draconian measures are adopted. Present governmental policies embrace the extremes of border interdictions, warrant less searches, invasive blood and urine test ,the national Strategy rejects common sense approaches in favor of knee jerk solutions like building more jails and extending jail sentences . We can reduce drug use without compromising American ideals only if we abandon prohibition. The War on Some People Who Use Certain Drugs has plagued America for more than seventy years. To turn that negative experience azound will require perseverance and vigilance. Our nation can contain and decrease the damage wrought by The War on Some People Who Use Certain Drugs and its