Just because we agree that the war on drugs should be abolished doesn't mean that some of us aren't mindkilled when they think about the topic.
What are the interesting questions about the war on drugs?
Does is make sense to push for the kind of hyper burocratic rules that the Netherlands has or is it better to push for medical marijuana?
Can you legalise all drugs without harming evidence based medicine? What's the incentive for biotech companies and big pharma to fund studies that prove clinical effects if they can legally sell the drugs without having to get clearance from the FDA?
Which political forces are responsible for the war on drugs to continue? Why did Fast and Furious play out the way it did? Nobody going to prison for HSBC laundering billons of drug money? Ranbaxy?
How do you convince older people who fear that their kids go on drugs that the war on drugs is bad?
I'd push for finding a way to make rehabilitation cheaper and more effective, rather than focusing on imprisonment/fines, with regards the more addictive drugs (I don't think of myself as much of a family person, but my father is the only branch of his family not destroyed by drug abuse; even the one almost-rational one cannot find a stable place to stay that is not filled with crackheads, so she stays in trouble even though she has wanted out of it since the beginning. Long story in which I missed a perfect opportunity to save the day.). The trends that m...
I was thinking about the hazards of bad government, and wondering if there was a way for the LW community to do something to oppose them, and it occurred to me that we might be picking up the problem by the wrong end.
The usual way of thinking about political action is to start with one's political identity (progressive, libertarian, whatever), and that's likely to put one at odds with people who have opposed identities.
Instead, I believe there are projects which could appeal to rationalists across a wide range of the political spectrum. A couple I can think of are opposing the war on drugs and improving judicial systems. Any other suggestions?