| De-Criminalize Recreational Drugs:
Intelligent response by Obama. (
Video
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No, I don't do drugs nor have I ever smoked tobacco. But we seem to be incapable
as a nation to remember was prohibition which led to the creation of powerful
crime organizations. These organizations exist today because drugs are illegal.
Some people will use drugs regardless of their legality, hence the huge profits
being funneled to places like Colombia & the Middle East where they fund
terrorism. These are tax-free profits ! Worse, the "war on drugs" which is
pretty ineffective at best, costs taxpayers billions ( $60-$70 billion a
year ) and shows little return for the money.
We have become the world's largest incarcerator of our citizens primarily
due to really BAD drug laws designed to lock up non-violent, first time drug
abusers for many years. The real pushers remain free of course.
Politicians use the "anti-drug" band wagon to try to buy votes from uneducated
voters. They succeed primarily because they don't or won't educate the American
People about the truth of the results of the policies.
I don't advocate the use of these drugs, but when you look at the real result
of our "drug war" and its effect on society, the cost ( financial and human)
is not justified. I think that those who would abuse the drugs anyway pay
a tax on them. We eliminate BILLION$ of YOUR tax dollars spent trying to
stop the abuse,. We could better serve the users with programs and treatment
paid for with those taxes and savings. Putting them in jail is not "saving"
them, it is further destroying them.
The BILLION$ of illegal profits would stop flowing to other countries as
well. Blowing all that money and further destroying the lives of our citizens
just to appear "tough on crime" is just a political dirty trick with no benefit
and high cost for you and me. Pushers would go away because they depend upon
an illegal trade to exist...they would leave your kids alone !
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