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The drug war
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 6, 2012 - 6:23pm.
I am glad that some politicians are starting to acknowledge that there are alternatives to the social and economic harm caused by the "War on Drugs." If health and safety were the real issue, tobacco and alcohol would be treated like cocaine and heroine. Economically, destroying other nations' right to produce high demand cash crops seems like an aggressive strategy that might give a northern country protection from a trade deficits, but the combined cost of fighting and waiving tax rights seems to defeat the point. Morally, making a medical/social problem illegal increases its negative ramifications by encouraging societal splits between users and non-users, minimizing the safety of treatment, and destroying the potential future economic productivity of those who will not be gainfully employed following prison terms.
It is shameful that the USA, which was founded on principles of freedom, now needs to hear this message from younger countries.
In fact, the reason is that those who have been saying it here, as citizens, have been ignored and repressed as a reward for their service to the cause of personal liberty that is a defining feature of this nation.
