“Regardless of how you try to explain to people it’s a ‘war on drugs’ or a ‘war on a product,’ people see a war as a war on them,” he said. “We’re not at war with people in this country.”
White House Czar Calls for End to ‘War on Drugs’ — (Wsj.com)
Archive for May, 2009
This is truly amazing. Gee, how much more of this type of material will be posted, and the lawmakers, still do nothing.
“If hard drugs such as heroin or cocaine were legalized would you be likely to use them?
99% SAY “NO”Zogby International asked that question of 1,028 likely voters. Ninety-nine out of 100 said “No.” Only 0.6 percent said “Yes.”1
Drug War advocates have always insisted that addiction would explode if drugs were legalized. But that argument comes apart under the weight of the evidence. While a poll can’t predict actual drug use, it clearly shows that most of us avoid hard drugs because of common sense – not fear of arrest.
And that’s always been the case. At the beginning of the last century when a virtual free market for drugs existed, use rates were lower than they are today.2 Drug use and addiction – along with crime, violence and corruption – only began to climb after the advent of drug prohibition in 1914.3
Isn’t it time to end the War on Drugs? Let’s turn addiction problems over to the people who dealt with them effectively before 1914 – doctors, nurses and health care professionals.”
Mr. President,
On the many different websites hosting video’s these days; we’ve all heard you saw we needed to ‘re-think’ our drug policy. We all agree with you there. I come here today, starting a new war on drug policy, and standards. No more will we stand by, and allow you to tell us what’s allowed in our bodies. If someone is stupid enough to put something in their body, they are ultimately taking the risk. How would you feel if someone told you, that you could no longer smoke cigarettes, Chew gum, or even had a beer? Now I know you wouldn’t appreciate it much. You said the DEA raids of state legal pot clinics would stop, yet they still continue. You said you would change these things, WE got you there. Now it’s time for your end of the bargain.
So the ‘professionals’ say it’s a gateway drug, I disagree, a few key points on why it isn’t. Number one, no pothead is ever going to murder, or kill anyone; however they may however die of laughter from insanely moronic cartoons. Number two, I can’t remember which TV show host said this but, did you know that most hard drug users start on nicotine, and alcohol? This is how a lot of my friends have started. Number three, marijuana was America’s cash crop, and still could be. How many trees do we go through a day for paper? Hemp is durable and easily harvested, it’s a god damned weed, and it grows wild anywhere!
The question is Mr. President, are you going to fulfill your job, you say you stand for the people, well in your town hall discussion, you said you didn’t want to ‘grow our economy’; we’re not asking you to. We want it legal for the right we’re supposedly entitled to. I feel personally you’ve let us down. I’m not affected by the mortgage crisis, or the credit crunch, nor am unemployed. I work 40 hours a week, I pay taxes, have a family, and a do-gooder. I’m the typical American, I don’t own a home, I don’t have a portfolio, nor do I have a savings. I live pay-check to pay-check.
At least give us the opportunity to make our case for the legalization of marijuana. With enough voices you WILL hear us.
