On 20 August last, Professor Arnold Trebach, again a dear friend and member of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party, published an Op-Ed in the Washington Times, a daily that does not necessarily embraces anti-prohibitionism as a possibility, entitled "Fatal Alliance".
Arnold ends his piece quoting from his latest book "Fatal Distraction," where he went over all the evidence that "proved the war on drugs was indeed a fatal distraction". By that he means that "the drug war has never worked and now diverts limited resources from combating more deadly menaces — bombs, not bongs. Today, in the Drug Enforcement Administration alone, a total of 10,891 federal officials are employed to save us all from drugs — usually marijuana — at an annual cost of $2.5 billion. It is high time in this perilous era that we say to these dedicated officials in the DEA and in hundreds of other police agencies that we as free citizens accept the personal responsibility to save ourselves and our families from drugs (and red meat, alcohol and tobacco). You focus attention on dealing with the new threats emanating from the jihadists who want to destroy us".
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