War on the War on Drugs

A search on News.Google.com will turn up some provocative articles, as recent as today

Norm Stamper was chief of the Seattle Police Department from 1994 - 2000, and he is standing up against the USA's ineffective and opressive "war on drugs"

Here are just a few links to the related news articles, of which there are many more:

• Leave the Dopers Alone
• War on the War on Drugs
• Law officers calling for end to 'war against drugs'

Further fortifying the need to revise drug laws, is a fascinating discovery: The role of marijuana/cannabinoids in neurogenesis. A search on Google News for 'neurogenesis' turns up at least 25 unique articles, almost all of them hailing this new discovery.