What we should be doing, but won't?

  It is a beautiful day here in the Northeast. The kind of day whose sky is cloudless, and a perfect clear light blue! A sky which for those of us who are old enough, reminds us of the first 9/11 attack. This one having been larger, in that, unlike the one of Benghazi fame which murdered only four Americans, caused the deaths of 3,000 souls, not only Americans, but of citizens of the world.
  Interestingly, this country to a large extent, has become fixated on other things, which are of far lesser concern. What we are fixated on now, is the charges of racism, and the divisiveness that it causes. One side accusing, while the other side denies.
The simple truth regarding the death of Mr. Gray, is that it has nothing to do with race, but rather of poverty. More specifically still, is the misbegotten war on drugs. The reason that inner city blacks and other poor people find themselves at odds with the police, is because, the sale of drugs, although an illegal enterprise, is an enterprise non the less.
  The government cannot legislate morals, a lesson that you would have thought we should have learned with the prohibition of alcohol. Denying the public something they so clearly want, only serves to create a market for it. You would think that we would have learned this lesson, but apparently, we have not. The choice is clear. If we want to have any chance of controlling such a dangerous thing as drugs, we cannot do it by treating it as an affront to the law, but only by legalizing it, albeit with strict controls in place, such as minimum age laws, and assigned registration for those who would choose to use the narcotics that bring on addiction, can we ever hope to defeat it.