'MEXICO CITY — After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.
Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn't worked.
"In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified."'
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5/13/10
US Drug War Has Met None of its Goals
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Drug "War!...What is it good for? Absolutely NUTHIN'! Say it again..." (and again and again...) Thank you Edwin Starr.
ReplyDeleteThe first Mother's Day in 1870 was actually an
anti-war observance...mothers uniting to protest the senseless slaughter of their sons ("Civil" War). What has this to do with Pot Laws? Well, people are always trying to get other people to do what's "right", and after deciding for themselves what that is, they go about determinedly trying to convince everyone else....by threat of incarceration, death, or even eternal damnation if necessary. This rarely goes smoothly nor does it ever end. The Sunni and Shia, Catholics and Protestants, liberals and conservatives...men and women...forever at odds. And REASON is only a tool for PASSION. Societies are always setting limits and priorities. The hell of it is, they are set as "fixed" while everything else changes. Ironically, those who are least inclined to accept or acknowledge change are the ones who are most deeply affected by it...eventually. The Hindus saw all this 5000 years ago and called it "Lila" (The Dance of Life). Stoners say "It's all good." In short, why legitimize a dim, paranoid, neurotic system of "laws" by legalizing cannabis? ... Why not?