The Drug War is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.
We like it.
It’s smothering our land with graft and crime,
Destroying our children as they do hard time,
It don't protect us worth a dime,
Nevertheless, we like it.
~anonymous (private, for-profit prisons, and drug cartels everywhere)
Original, prohibition-era poem:
Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.
We like it.
It's left a trail of graft and slime,
It's filled our land with vice and crime,
It don't prohibit worth a dime,
Nevertheless, we're for it.
Written by Franklin P. Adams, a columnist for the New York World, in response to the pro-prohibition conclusion of Hoover's Wickersham commission.