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The "War on Drugs" is a failure. It has done nothing to reduce the use of illegal drugs in the US. Drug cartels continue to reap and export billions of US dollars from our economy without paying taxes. Thousands die each year due to the illegal drug cartels and gang violence.
We cannot outspend them and we cannot afford to lock up more millions of low-level drug offenders while the big king pins live in luxury outside of our borders.
Drug gangs are turning parts of Mexico into a bloody war zone.
Crime in America is fueled by the "War on Drugs" which promotes gangs and drug cartels along with their violence.
Theft in America is a common method for abusers to pay for the high cost of illegal drugs.
One thing and one thing only keeps these gangs and drug lords going like energizer bunnies...our War on Drugs.
One thing and one thing alone will put them out of business almost over night. Legalize the drugs.
Of course drugs are bad for you. Tobacco is bad for you. Too much alcohol is bad for you. A fatty diet kills more people than all the drug abuse ever did. We keep scarfing billions of fast food hamburgers anyway. It is a choice we make. So is taking a drug.
What our "War on Drugs" adds to the misery in the cost. We are in tough times economically and we throw away billions of dollars on a losing war. It is a war fought on America soil against our own citizens to try to stop something we apparently want to do, use certain drugs.
County Court Judge James Gray, who now serves on the civil court bench, publicly declared the "War on Drugs" a failure and held a press conference to announce the advocacy of an alternate solution --the legalization of marijuana, cocaine and heroin.
"The system just doesn't work," he told the press. "The nation's strict drug laws cause more problems than the drugs themselves."
In advocating legalization, Gray joins the swelling number of federal, state and county justices calling for a reversal of our national drug policy.
What do these judges know that Congress does not know? They know first hand the results and damages caused by our "War" They see with their own eyes, day after day, case after case, that the "war" is costing us and causing us more damage then the drugs themselves cost us.
In addition to generating a lot of tax revenue we would save many billions of dollars currently spent on enforcement and prisons and jails. This money would serve us far better being funneled to education and better schools for our children than wasted, as it is, on failed policy.
It is time for Congress and America to wake up and smell the defeat...it is time to change to a policy that better serves us as a nation. One that replaces loss with gain. One that heals rather than punishes those who make an adult decision to abuse any substance, be it drugs or tobacco or alcohol.
It is time for common sense to replace faulty emotion and false arguments.
Many law enforcement people are in favor of legalization to curb crime. Tax revenues and the resulting savings in enforcement would be a welcome boon to our economy.
Gallop Poll shows more in favor of legalization
Read more in the economy section related to the economic arguments for legalization.
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