President Obama faces a heap of crises: a major economic recession, crumbling national infrastructure, and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Buried in that heap is another war, one less present in public discourse but no less toxic: the drug war. The concentrated battleground of the drug war has been on domestic soil, with America’s so-called interdiction efforts spreading the fight… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesFind out why more and more cops, judges, and prosecutors who have fought on the front lines of the “war on drugs” are standing up and saying we need to legalize and regulate all drugs to solve our economic, crime, and public health problems: CopsSayLegalizeDrugs dot com
Posted by TomSaysLegalizeDrugs on Mar 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM Drug Czar—a whole department whose demise could help to bring down the cost of government—should be axed immediately. It has been a waste of money, time and resources since its inception.
The real drug war is coming over the border. When things really start to boil over into white middle class neighborhoods, maybe people will wake up to the fact that this war on drugs has been a boondoggle and a sham. Maybe then we will reform the drug laws in an intelligent way.
I have known many drug addicts. I don’t use and am not a supporter of drug use. But I have watched people who were a danger to nobody but themselves go to prison while the real dangerous folks never get touched. We can eliminate the danger by making it legal.
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