Drug Bust at San Diego State

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If I were one of these parents, I would be outraged at the police, not the school.

This all reflects a bigger problem - the war on drugs continues to take its toll on this society. The DEA has no business existing in the first place, and incidents like these may help people realize that.

First, there is the obvious question that nobody ever seems to ask because they are too busy bullshitting about "I never thought something like this would happen here!" That is, why is it a problem for these people to do drugs? They can drink and die of alcohol poisoning, as 1400 college students do every year, but they can't smoke pot or take ecstasy. The cops need to be arresting dealers and smugglers, not users.

Secondly, if someone can use drugs while performing well enough to be at SDSU, shut up and let them party. And if it gets to the point where the drugs harm their academic performance, listen to the parents. After all, it's their job to help their kids.

Then again, the DEA is probably just bitter because they are entirely incompetent. It's not their fault; they are being funded to fight a war that would require them to interdict around the world in order to successfully prevent drugs from getting on campus in the first place. They can't. Nobody can. But instead of acknowledging this, the government raids the occasional pot farm or school campus so that people will see what can happen. The cumulative amount of drug seizures in this country is still only a tiny fraction of what would be needed to successfully reduce the availability and presence of drugs in America. We intercept only 3% of drugs that cross our borders, and according to a former New York state prosecutor, we would have to increase drug seizures by 1400% in order to reduce drug use significantly (as of 1988; the number has grown since).