Re:Inflexibility means brittle. (Score 1)

> While we have very strict drug laws in America,
> they are not enforced very often.

Then I wonder what we're spending the $1200/second budget of the drug war for. It can't all be for "education"; there were only a couple of Superbowl commercials.

Actually, there were 1,579,566 arrests for drug law violations in 2000. 734,497 of those were for cannabis. 646,042 people were arrested for cannabis possession alone.

Granted, they're not all convicted, but many are: prisoners sentenced for drug offenses make up about 55% of Federal inmates and about 20% of adults in state prisons.

All this helps to give the United States the highest prison population rate in the world, at 686 per 100,000.

[Obviously this is nothing compared to the number of people who speed. I'm just objecting to the "not enforced very often" line.]