Whack-a-mole Report: Illegal drug use up sharply last year

The facts are in. Marijuana use is up, despite all the expenditure, imprisonment and loss of life of the "whack-a-mole" "War on Drugs." Yet the Obama administration continues its insane logic.

Report: Illegal drug use up sharply last year - The Associated Press: The rate of illegal drug use rose last year to the highest level in nearly a decade, fueled by a sharp increase in marijuana use and a surge in ecstasy and methamphetamine abuse, the government reported Wednesday.


Gil Kerlikowske, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, called the 9 percent increase in drug use disappointing but said he was not surprised given "eroding attitudes" about the perception of harm from illegal drugs and the growing number of states approving medicinal marijuana. "I think all of the attention and the focus of calling marijuana medicine has sent the absolute wrong message to our young people," Kerlikowske said in an interview.

Mike Meno, a spokesman for the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project, said the survey is more proof that the government's war on marijuana has failed in spite of decades of enforcement efforts and arrests. Sept. 16, 2010