Do No Evil – THE COMMITTEE ON UNJUST SENTENCING: STATEMENT OF AIM The Committee on Unjust Sentencing is a service organization devoted to the interests of prisoners of the War on Drugs. The long-term goal is release from prison of all prisoners of the War on Drugs and reform of a criminal justice system that punishes illegal drug use with incarceration.
drugwarprisoners.org has many excellent articles, including "THE WAR ON IRAQ AND THE WAR ON DRUGS: TWO WARS OR ONE?" at http://www.drugwarprisoners.org/dwt9.htm Also read "February, 2001: Tuberculosis, By Richard J. Lester, Drug War Correspondent" http://www.drugwarprisoners.org/3lester.htm
The presidents who have held the office for the last four terms are all well known and have admitted to using drugs and/or abusing alcohol.
Why are they not in jail? They did not get caught or their daddy was the most powerful political figure in the state. Is that what separates a criminal from a president? Luck of birth and/or luck of not getting caught.
We pay for more and more new prisons, but less and less new libraries. We build more and more new stadiums or race tracks, but less and less new schools.
Our priorities are f`ed up beyond, and it is time we stop blaming others like the terrorists or the illegal immigrants and take a good look at how do we fix our own problems first.
Forgive moi, I have very deep feelings about Bush's war on drugs. I shall start with the Iran-Contra Affair. Many think that our beloved prez is doing all within his power to fight the war on drugs. He is a liar. Case in point: how do you think then vice president Bush paid for illegal arms to Iran -- without Congress supporting him??? He paid for the arms using cocaine! He traded arms to Iran, by paying the drug lords (also known as le contras) off in money to buy and import cocaine into this country. San Francisco was ground zero. We discovered one metric ton of pure cocaine on our "docks by the bay," along with enough fire-power to start a war.
I don't expect anyone here to believe this, but every word is true. Not only is the country the biggest exporter of weapons on this planet, but exporting cocaine as well.
Please don't take my word for it -- do your homework!!!
Peace, we all deserve nothing less.
It is amazing that Afghanistan, after we invaded the country, Bush's personal hands on supervising via his role as Commander in Chief before and after the initial invasion, and our support of a provincial government no longer bound by collective law is one of the largest producers and exporters of heroine to the rest of the world including the US. Prior to the invasion, the production of heroine in Afghanistan was almost non existent. This President really doesn't care about a war on drugs, contrary to his espoused stance.
As a Libertarian and Populist, I think the drug problem could be solved by just making them all legal so we can really control the problems associated with them. Just think how many drug cartels we would put out of business and how much tax money it would generate. We are fighting a losing battle which is costing us untold money that we see no return on, not to count the lives lost each year to the illegal activities.
Legalise them all, grow / manufacture legally, tax same.
Save billions.....
Those that have serious habits will rapidly weed themselves out of the gene pool....
No brainer......
That would turn an enormously expensive War on Drugs that routinely tears low-income families apart into a substantial revenue generator. How will President McCain ever manage to again double George W. Bush's $10 trillion national debt is we start doing sane things like that?
He has a reputation to protect, you know. Every 2-term Republican since Reagan has doubled the national debt.
Drug users should be helped not jailed. Sellers, however, should be sent to prison for life with hard labor. How many lives have been ruined by these low lifes? Some might say wait a minute, these people use drugs because they want to. That's BS, they use them becuase it is too addictive to resist. The sellers know this and take them down the road to ruin and make a lot of money in the process.
Illegal drugs are not nearly as addictive as nicotine, and we need to legalize drugs to ensure their purity and prevent the spread of AIDS. Even if sterile hypodermic needles were available to everyone, shooting galleries would still spread AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases.
Pure heroin is completely non-toxic and most overdoses of heroin are really overdoses of the quinine it is cut with. Drug prohibition also encourages the use of designer drugs, smokable methamphetamine, PCP and worst of all, inhalants. And at one time morphine was used successfully to treat nicotine and alcohol dependence.
Besides, heroin is prohibited partly because The United States and Israel make too much money from illegal heroin. It finances the occupation of Afghanistan. Because the cost is so articially high, drug users have to become dealers.
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