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Because of the drug war, thousands of police officers, drug users and dealers and innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire, have died needless deaths.
We have more than two million U.S. citizens in prison, many of them on drug-related charges. Our children have alarmingly easy access to any drug they desire, and our police have become soldiers engaged in an unwinnable war against the American people. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights have been destroyed.
Yet drugs are still readily available to anyone who wants them, and are cheaper and higher quality than ever before.
It seems to me that Americans have been fooled into paying for their worst nightmare and the more money we are asked to pump into the drug war the bigger failure it becomes.
I don't think citizens should support any government program that puts all of us at greater risk and fails us year after year.
Admitting that the drug war has failed and approaching it from a health and social standpoint is not the same as condoning or advocating drug use.
My thoughts are with all of the families caught up in this tragedy, which could have been avoided if people would only wake up and realize that, in the case of prohibition, the cure is worse than the disease.
Loretta Nall
President, U.S. Marijuana Party
Source: Crimson White, The (Edu, Univ of Alabama)
Copyright: 2005 The Crimson White.
Contact: cwletters@sa.ua.edu
Website: The Crimson White
Author: Loretta Nall
We have more than two million U.S. citizens in prison, many of them on drug-related charges. Our children have alarmingly easy access to any drug they desire, and our police have become soldiers engaged in an unwinnable war against the American people. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights have been destroyed.
Yet drugs are still readily available to anyone who wants them, and are cheaper and higher quality than ever before.
It seems to me that Americans have been fooled into paying for their worst nightmare and the more money we are asked to pump into the drug war the bigger failure it becomes.
I don't think citizens should support any government program that puts all of us at greater risk and fails us year after year.
Admitting that the drug war has failed and approaching it from a health and social standpoint is not the same as condoning or advocating drug use.
My thoughts are with all of the families caught up in this tragedy, which could have been avoided if people would only wake up and realize that, in the case of prohibition, the cure is worse than the disease.
Loretta Nall
President, U.S. Marijuana Party
Source: Crimson White, The (Edu, Univ of Alabama)
Copyright: 2005 The Crimson White.
Contact: cwletters@sa.ua.edu
Website: The Crimson White
Author: Loretta Nall
