A recent government TV commercial for the War on Drugs features two guys discussing how drug money funds terrorism. Something about, "if there were no drug buyers, there would be no drug cartels, and if there were no drug cartels, money wouldn't go to terrorist orgs."

I have to wonder, are these commercials designed to show how foolish and morally bankrupt the WOD is?

I'll just comment on the first phrase in this recipe; others have discussed the remainder of the WOD's current mantra. Under what set of circumstances do these people actually think there could ever be "no drug buyers?" Is that the same world in which there are no buyers of chocolate, liquor, lottery tickets, cigarettes, or whatever other form of self-medication you can come up with?

There will always be drug buyers. Even if we locked up every single recreational pot smoker to slammin' junkie we could find, there'd be millions left.

While I certainly have big qualms about legalizing crack or heroin, and even larger qualms about the government being involved in their production, sale, or distribution in the same way that states are involved in lotteries, something has to be done that's not based on an extraordinary fantasy.

(Something worrisome about making hard drugs available in the same way as prescription drugs is that there would probably still be a black market for drugs. It would be a lot smaller than the current black market, but there would still be people who could sell drugs to those who couldn't get prescriptions, such as teenagers. And, harder forms of heroin or other drugs might be available only on the black market. Or, would the legal drugs have to get stronger to compete with the black market versions. The government brand White Horse might lose out to the street brand Black Ice.)