And meanwhile tens of millions of Americans are written out of the system as criminals

In modern America, drug convictions are felonies and once you have a felony a company called Talx -  part of Equifax (and owned and operated by members of my church) tracks you for employers and others electronically.  For the rest of your life.  Our young men are drugged in school so they will be 'acceptable' to the matrons who run it and then when they come of age, they take the hint and drug themselves upon which they are convicted of felonies by our MADD mad culture.  At that point they are permanently excluded from society by high tech vindictiveness like Talx.  And it's starting to pile up - fewer than 40% of college graduates are now men.  41% of all children are born out of wedlock and the sperm banks are besieged by lonely women wanting to buy buy high IQ sperm to replace the 'respectable' men who are no longer there - in today's world those men are 'criminals'.   And the 'great and good' - Christian or Atheist, liberal or conservative couldn't care less.

The rational response is to persuade your sons to move to a civilized country, like Canada which somehow survives while criminalizing only one eighth the proportion of human beings the US does.

Hat tip Instapundit.  Megan McCardle has more:

MEGAN MCARDLE: THE GOALS AND MEANS OF METH CONTROL:

So with meth, we made it illegal, and then it turned out you could make the stuff from cold medicine in a very dangerous and dirty home production process, so we made it hard to get cold medicine, so they switched to an even more dangerous process, so now we’re going to make it even harder to get cold medicine . . .

At every step, we don’t consider the whole cost of functionally prohibiting cold medicine; we consider only the marginal cost of the new prohibition. And we compare that marginal cost to the whole cost of drug addiction, nasty amateur meth labs, etc. This policy ratchet means we can easily end up in a situation where the sum of our drug laws are worse than the disease of drug addiction, even though no one particular prohibition is.

Are we in that place? Well, if you’re someone who needs a decongestant, particularly someone with chronic allergies or sinus or ear infections, then this is a pretty major cost–as anyone with recurring episodic problems can tell you, it’s getting harder and harder to get doctors to write you prophylactic prescriptions, because of dual pressure from healthinsurers and the government.

I want my Sudafed. What I’ve noticed is that they keep making it harder to get, but we keep getting more meth labs. Naturally, the political class’s answer is more of the same! And nobody’s held accountable, and nobody’s willing to relax changes that have proven ineffectual — they just accumulate like barnacles