30-05-2009, 09:50 PM
Dawn Meredith Wrote:Commuting prison sentences for non violent offenders is an excellent idea, he's also talked about legalizing pot and taxing it, would be great if he would go the max there and legalize all drugs. Imagine how the CIA (etc ) would feel. The money saved on not prosecuting drug offenders woud be incalucatable.
Dawn
Absolutely- this 40 year long "War on Drugs" has done nothing to reduce drug use or make us safer or more healthy. It has served only to enrich the drug cartels and the CIA, militarize the police, enrich them through draconian seizure laws (cash, cars, boats, airplanes, houses) and empower the authorities to train school children to submit. The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program- which sends police in fancy fantasy cars (e.g. police Corvettes) into schools to indoctrinate our kids into fearing things like marijuana and beer and encourages them to report on friends and family- purports to be a "great success" when studies have shown that it actually has no effect, or even a negative effect in long term drug abuse of its participants. Yet it still goes on.
This war on (people who choose to use) drugs is a fraud. Look at the material here: http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php Prohibition doesn't work. It didn't in the 1930s and it doesn't today. At least back then we were smart enough to see it and change things. We don't seem able to do that today.
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