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In 2001, my book entitled, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed And What We Can Do About It -- A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs, was published by Temple University Press. It was the culmination of my experience as a former federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, criminal defense attorney in the United States Navy JAG Corps, and trial judge in Orange County, California since 1983, experience which had long before had convinced me that our nation’s program of drug prohibition was not simply a failure, but a hopeless failure. All we have to do to change away from this hopeless policy is to convince people that just because they discuss this issue, or just because we choose to implement a different policy, does not mean that we condone drug use or abuse.
Police terrorize students in the
Drug War.
James P. Gray
83% of Coloradoans believe we are losing the Drug War.
Drug War/Prohibition Economics have effectually supplanted METH in place of marijuana in America thanks to the Drug War. METH is more destructive than marijuana. Prohibition generates $ BILLIONS in illegal profit. Liberalizing policies towards marijuana would separate commerce in and use of marijuana from use of heroin and other more dangerous drugs.
Holland has led the way in cannabis reform since it amended its Opium Act in 1976 to distinguish among drugs according to levels of risk. Identifying cannabis as a "soft drug," the Dutch government decided to treat possession and cultivation of up to 30 grams as activities "not for prosecution, detection or arrest." This policy of tolerance paved the way for the "coffee shop system" of publicly distributing both marijuana and hashish.
Decriminalization, Yes. Totally safe, No
DEA Head Calls Mexican Cartels "Terrorists" in
Effort to Link
Vastly Different
Phenomenon
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/mexicancartels
...In yet another signal of the semantic slippage that is
gripping
Washington as it attempts to use its battle against Osama Bin
Laden and Al Qaeda as a pretext to advance US interests across the
board, DEA administrator Asa Hutchinson Tuesday tried to slap the
"terrorist" label on Mexican drug trafficking enterprises. It
now
appears that for purposes of domestic political consumption, the
word "terrorist" and its variants are being unmoored from any real
world referent and are instead being used by highly-placed
demagogues as polemical labels to attack their chosen enemies...
The Truth Is:
-You Are Responsible For Allowing The $400 Billion In Uncontrolled Cash Generated Each Year In The Drug Trade To Be Controlled By The Mafia, Criminal Organizations And Hoodlums, Some Of Whom Hate America.