Legalize it, tax it, control it

Legalize, tax and control drugs.
Take the profit away from criminals, and split it between government and business.
Prevent the forced criminalization of naturally-experimenting youth.
Remove the widespread need for lies and hypocrisy.
Help Mexico restore law and order.
Undercut the Taliban's finances.
Make it an issue of civil liberties
or
States' rights
or
A wedge issue for 2012
or
Subject to national referendum, which can help reshape the Constitution.