What are we going to do?

I do not profess to be very smart, nor do I have the ability to understand this "War on Drugs". But I do have common sense, and my common sense tells me that going around in circles will get you no place. Our government is dragging us around in circles, and chucking our money right down the drain with their war on drugs. So what are we going to do about this? There has got to be a answer that everyone can agree on. It is time to stop the wasteful spending and make the hard choices that will keep our children off drugs and people out of jail for drug use. I have been reading about countries that have legalized drugs, and they have had real good outcomes, the sky did not fall, as the US government would have you think. Why? Why can't we try that here, are we so far gone into this circle of spending billions of dollars to wage a war on something that is not going to go away until we legalize it and regulate it, just like alcohol and tobacco and prescription drugs. I am just a old country boy that happens to be disabled, and I am forced to take "legal drugs" to control my problems with severe pain and nerve damage, but here is this plant that grows out of the earth, that would allow me to get of off all of these man made drugs, that are destroying my liver slowly but surely, but no here in Arkansas this devil plant, this so called scourge on the world Marijuana is against the law, and if I were to buy or grow some I would be taking my freedom into my own hand. So what do I do? I can't afford to move to a state that is marijuana friendly, I don't want to move away from my family, but I want to get off of these medications that are making me sick and are not doing a very good job. My only choices are to stop taking the medication and becoming a complete invalid, or continue to go down the road that I am going, which by all rights is involuntary suicide. Now, by what right does my government have to do this to me? Are they above there own laws that they preach so loudly, are they above what God has said about the plants that have been put on this good earth? I say NO, and I believe that it is time for those that would prosecute us need to look in the mirror and ask, what would I do? What would you do if you were in my shoes?