Even heroin is not utterly unknown to the opinion and policy classes.īut crack is something else. Virtually all came of age before the dawn of zero tolerance. Both pencil pushers and paper pushers have been known to snort the occasional mound of cocaine. So have many of the rugged young officials now in charge of said hostilities. Most of the journalists covering the so-called “war on drugs” have at least tried marijuana. When it comes to crack, politicians and pundits literally do not know what they are talking about. “Using it even once can make a person crave cocaine for as long as they live.” -Peter Jennings, “ABC World News Tonight,” September 8
