Fighting the “War on Drugs”

Sunday morning in the capital city of a midwestern state. Four people sit at a table in the corner of a deserted hotel ballroom, sipping dreadful coffee and eating scrambled eggs and sweet rolls. They are there because the SENATOR has flown back from Washington—and his LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT has called a meeting of the committee of local consultants hired to work out a drug program that would attract national attention and help the Senator raise money in other states. At the table are the st...