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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (712695)	11/11/2005 10:49:13 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Moose, the point of my post is not to indicate that people that don't smoke are weird. I wouldn't encourage anyone to smoke pot or do drugs any more than I'd encourage drinking or smoking cigarettes. My position is drugs are in all facets of our society including primary and secondary schools. The war on drugs has done nothing but make the problem worse. Since the war on drugs started we've only seen increases in illicit drug use and abuse. In other words, the war on drugs is a complete failure and always will be. Drug abuse never should have been a department of justice problem to begin with, it was and should have stayed a Department of Health problem. Prohibition won't work with something that people want to have! It didn't work with alcohol in the roaring twenties but what it did do was to create a huge black market and some of the most successful and profitable eras for organized crime that there ever was and all the murder and damage that went along with it. This parallel is valid and always will be. We see it in the news every night. It doesn't just affect our country either it has an incredibly destabilizing effect world wide but especially to our South American neighbors. The Colombian government is one of the most corrupt in the world. The main contributer to that corruption is the US because of the billions of dollars US citizens spend on drugs every year. This is simple supply and demand...... Lifting prohibition on all street drugs isn't some idea that's being pushed by a bunch of drug dealers or the drug cartels, they like prohibition. Indeed if prohibition was lifted and drugs regulated then they'd be out of a job for the most part. Check out who is for lifting prohibition: leap.cc