I'm certainly no expert - I half put out these thoughts to see how my better educated or more rational friends will argue the point. Jack usually has a plethora of data which is nice.

Hmm...I've kinda been a hippie forever, and in my utopia there isn't non-voluntary poverty. Perhaps I can argue for opportunity for middle-class for all people to be an argument to fight terrorism! Poverty = boom. Hell - the 'drug war' is more about the economics of poverty than any issues strictly related to drug use per se.