> to raise public health by eliminating the personal health and social problems that drug addition creates.

If that had ever been the aim of any drug policy, drugs - including hard drugs - would be legally accessible at licensed stores, mental health care and social services would be accessible for everyone, and fact-based drug education in school be the norm, not the exception.

The reality is that drug policy has direct roots in racism - marijuana and crack prosecution intended to specifically target hippies and people of color.