I posted this on Craigslist in my area, just wanna see what happens what people say, how people in my area feel about it.
I wanted to get everyone’s overall feeling on the drug war. Do you think its working? In what ways is it working? Does it not work? Why doesn’t it work? Here’s my take. Feel free to respond to me personally or on here.
4500 teens will try Marijuana today. To me if we were winning, that number would be much lower. As of today at 12:07PM EST we have spent just this year $15,794,815,718 according to CanYouHearUsMrPresident.Com. We’ll spend more and more every year, trying to fight a drug that’s never harmed anyone, not one single reported death. At one time in our countries history, hemp was in every farmer’s crop. In fact it was illegal to not grow hemp. Our constitution is written on hemp paper. Hemp makes a very durable material for a number of different items, not just jewelry that surfers wear. (1)
Marijuana was a victim of a smear campaign. Harry J. Anslinger was the head of Federal Bureau of Narcotics in August of 1930. (2)He was also the husband of the Allen W. Mellon’s niece. He was also the Secretary of the US Treasury who later appointed Anslinger to the Bureau of Narcotics. (2) Anslinger linked every gruesome crime, to marijuana. He had people believing that if they smoked it, they would go out and hurt people, or themselves. If you’ve ever seen someone that’s high, to me they don’t look like they’re going to hurt me or themselves. All of the politicians of course believed the media, and waged war on marijuana as well. In 1937 Marijuana was made illegal by the ‘Marijuana Tax Act’.
We were manipulated as a population, the government now controls what we can, and cannot put in our bodies. When lawmaker’s don’t know how to fix a problem, they make a law. You cannot control something which is illegal. You only make the problem much worse; our prison population holds more non-violent drug possession prisoners than any other crime. Each prisoner costs $22,000 a year. Make it legal to possess 1/2 oz of Marijuana, and crime rates will plummet.
It’s coming. You all should get use to the idea, in fact you should try it. Urge your reps to rethink our policy. Let’s think rationally.
1. Guither, P. (2009) Why is Marijuana Illegal Retrieved October 14, 2009 From http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/
2. Wikipedia.org (2009) Harry J. Anslinger Retrieved October 14, 2009 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
