Ex-Mexico President Calls for Drug Legalization

This is really starting to gain some traction.  Vicente Fox isn't a lightweight.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103181125

Someone once made the point that if a person jumps out of a plane to their death, nobody blames the incident on gravity.  You don't hear news stories about how gravity is a drag on our society.  You don't see politicians condemning the unjust and harmful effects of gravity.  You don't see parents warning their children about the dangers of gravity and how it is an evil in society that needs to be defeated.  The government does not spend billions of dollars a year fighting to end gravity.

Why?

Gravity is not going to change, it is a constant.  A common denominator across all equations.  It is a given, a set of constraints within which society operates.

Illicit, dangerous, and harmful drugs are no different.  They don't kill nearly as many people as gravity and other laws of physics, but they will be found and used regardless of what we do.  We have centuries of evidence of this yet we still continue to throw our money at a legal system that cannot stop or even limit the flow and use of drugs.  The end result is gang violence and innocent victims on the government's hands.  We are forcing an unstoppable market into the management techniques of the mob and murderous thugs.

Michael Jordan scored tons of points on the Pistons in the 88 and 89 conference finals.  He was going to score a lot of points and there was absolutely nothing the Pistons could do about it.  It was a given, a common denominator, a set of constraints within which the Pistons had to operate.  But who won the NBA world championship those years?