ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT; PROTESTERS SAY IT'S TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO HALT DRUG BATTLES

In 1932, Democratic presidential challenger Franklin D.  Roosevelt called for an end to Prohibition, the ban on alcohol that Republican President Herbert Hoover embraced as "the noble experiment."

FDR swept into office declaring "happy days are here again" and presided over the repeal of Prohibition as the noble experiment was declared an utter failure.

Arguments are being made now across the political spectrum that America's war on drugs - the federal prohibition on marijuana and other illicit substances - has proved similarly disastrous.

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