One of our popular myths is that if we legalized drugs, crime would disappear. If it disappears as well as bootlegging did after Prohibition was repealed, it will be replaced by lots and lots of misery caused by the drugs that have been legalized. We may be overdoing the war on drugs, but I don't see it as such a scandal as legal drugs would be. The pilots being prosecuted for the friendly fire incident in which Canadian troops died, are blaming it on the the amphetamines given them before their missions. I hate to think what the DUI statistics would be if cocaine and marijuana became as freely available as alcohol.