Yes, Really and Ridiculous

The War on Drugs, Really?


Halleluiah my friend, to everything you’ve said and more, it is time for a new approach to the war on drugs, since Nixon first coined the slogan, the amount of drugs in and consumed in the U.S. has only increased. Along with profit for the cartels and outrageous over flow in our federal prisons. Right now the U.S. is second in the world for highest incarceration rate, but we are most definitely going to soon take over that title. With the majority of these prisons inmates drug offenders as you said the focus is not where it should be on rehabilitating these people. Its seems to me that enforcement is the main focus not the social problem of drugs in our society. Arresting small-time dealers does little but create business opportunities for others. Its time for something new, first like you said marijuana is not a drug; you will never hear of someone dying from smoking too much pot. I swear its amazing the focus on prohibition. Its like wake up that is never ever going to happen. What would be so wrong with legalizing something that is so commonly used be a wide range of demographics; creating billions of jobs and revenue for our country and at the same time undermine criminals and their illegal activity.

Every thing I have ever read on the subject says since the war on drugs began things have only gotten worse, I have even read and I’m almost certain it could be true that some of our own national government institutions make some sort of profit on the drugs brought into the US. And even if that’s not so think of how much seizing of these drugs it would take to hurt the cartels something like 75% to even hurt their profits. Its ridiculous having old fashioned views and ways of dealing with something that is evolving and most definitely not going away maybe instead we could have regulated legalization, along with rehabilitation for those who need it. Just something new, because the way things are going now there is only more violence, more drugs, and even more prisons to hold these drug offenders to come.