Here's a very well-written and well reasoned article about the damage caused by the Drug War.
The article's point is that innocent people are dying and we are losing our Constitutional rights in the name of fighting some War against our own citizens.
We are seriously off track and the fiscal damage this causes is immeasurable.
The story of the 80 year old man who was shot by police when he tried to get undercover officers acting like drug dealers to leave his property makes my blood boil. If anyone other than the police did something like this, they'd be charged with murder.
Making it worse was the governor of Florida saying it was practically necessary that the old man die to fight drugs.
That's insane. We have lost our way and we are in danger of losing every right our forefathers fought to give us if we continue on this path to making America a police state.
The Drug War is un-American because it guts our freedoms. The Drug War is fiscally irresponsible because of the direct cost to the treasury. The Drug War undermines our economic productivity when we incarcerate so many and make them dependents on the public rather than contributors..
This madness must stop. Getting high is not worse than killing innocents and taking away our rights.
Legalization is the lesser of two evils now.
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