I've never known an America that wasn't fighting a drug war. I sat through D.A.R.E. classes, part of the first generation of Nancy Reagan's disciples to trudge off from middle school imbued with the notion that street drugs were a cancer, that trying them put you on track for addiction, and that those who bought them were criminals. All this despite the fact that I could go to any pharmacy in America with a busted leg and walk out with orally administered heroin.