Lester and Charlie know that the War on Drugs is a good-natured response to many, many crippled lives - from crack whores to lab rats. What Lester and Charlie might not understand is that the government is confusing problems with solutions. We are a self-medicating society, with most of our medications available at the corner store. Those you can't get with a prescription or valid I.D. are lumped together as equally evil - at a great expense to taxpayers.
Perhaps the more benign drugs should be producing tax dollars to treat the victims of the least benign substances. After all, this is about chemistry. Not morals.
"It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."
- Mark Twain's Notebook