Amen, it's about time someone stands up to report what a gigantic waste of time and resources this war has been. According to the report:
"Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won." (msn.com)
What they are reporting, has been understood by many for years. When you criminalize something that works, and people want it, you create a black market. People make huge profits off of it, many people are persecuted and thrown in jail for victimless crimes and others get victimized through gang violence (fighting turf wars for control of sale).
Drug use is tragic, but we must help those hooked on them, not treat them as criminals.
The overwhelming, vast majority of people would never start using drugs just because they become legal. We choose to not use them because of their addictive, destructive nature. Those that are huge opponents of drug legalization would admit themselves that if drugs were legalized they wouldn't use them. So what are they doing? Protecting us from ourselves?
Such logic and reasoning that I'm sure was found in the report was dismissed by the drug czar in the U.S. Of course it was, what else did we expect them to say?
From msn.com:
"Drug addiction is a disease that can be successfully prevented and treated. Making drugs more available — as this report suggests — will make it harder to keep our communities healthy and safe," Office of National Drug Control Policy spokesman Rafael Lemaitre said.
I've said it before, it's not the federal governments job to enforce health on us. That's our job.
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