The Gregory Brothers - The War On Drugs Is a Failure lyrics

We need to repeal the whole war on drugs
It isn't working we don't have to have more
Courts and more prisons this has to change
This has to change prohibition didn't work
Prohibition on drugs doesn't work
We have spent over four
Hundred billion dollars
It's a waste of money

We need to come to our senses
Let's put down the guns
And unclench the fists
We need to come to our senses
Yeah we don't treat alcoholics like this
We need to come to our senses
Prohibition's failing more than in 1926
We need to come to our senses
We don't treat alcoholics like this

Too many people doing time
When did recreation become a crime?
It's bright eyed kids we're
Sending into prison
They go in as superheroes
And come out super-villains
Could've had more Einsteins, more Magellans
But we made a thousand Al Capone level felons
Take out a dealer and ten more appear
So let's ban curing cancer
We'll cure it within a year

We need to come to our senses (our senses)
Our senses our senses

Of fifty-thousand arrests
Eighty-two percent are black and hispanic
These arrests stigmatize they criminalize
Making it harder to find a job
Making it harder to get into schools
Making it harder to turn their lives around
It must end, and it must end now

The war on drugs
While well-intentioned, has been a failure
We're warehousing addicted people everyday
In state prisons giving them no treatment
Sending them back on the street
And wondering why they don't get better
Why they commit crimes again
Well, they commit crimes to
Support their addiction

The war on drugs is a failure
Let's put down the guns
And unclench the fists
The war on drugs is a failure
We don't treat alcoholics like this
The war on drugs is a failure
Prohibition's failing more than in 1926
The war on drugs is a failure
We don't treat alcoholics like this

The cops got better things to do anyway
Like stop real crimes instead of wasting time
Chasing that mary-jane
Stoned people don't start fights
(No they don't)
Stoned people don't rob banks
(Not even close)
The worst thing stoned people do
Is steal their roommates Oreos
And that's a misdemeanor at most
A misdemeanor at most a misdemeanor at most