How to stop the drug wars
The link below is to the lead editorial in The Economist of March 7, 2009 arguing for the legalization of drugs.
The difficulty in dealing with illegal drug problems is that too many people have a vested interest in the drug business. If the drug problem were to be resolved how many judges, lawyers and police would be out of work?
It bugs me that a number of people have built lucrative careers and empires on the suffering of people unfortunate enough to get hooked into the wrong drugs.
- Art Powell's blog
- Login or register to post comments
Recent Comments
- Theodore Tadeson |
- Rick Shea |
- Bram Kivenko |
- Rick Shea |
- David Barclay |
- 1 of 2171
- ››
Comments
Today on CNN a Democratic
Today on CNN a Democratic Representative called a trial legalization program in California.
Sanchez, chairwoman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism, said that because of her state's receptiveness to more lenient marijuana laws, it would be a good host for an experiment in reform.
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/03/12/dem-law...
redundant link
Ard has already drawn our attention to that article at http://www.greenparty.ca/en/blogs/1403/2009-03-01/... .
What does not get explored almost at all in "respectable" surroundings such as this, is clandestine government INVOLVEMENT in drug proliferation...Too bad indeed, because a little outrage or head-shaking sadness in the right places might politically go a long way...