NP war on drugs

[Otto Sell]

WHAT WAR ON DRUGS ?

"I keep hearing politicians talk about the "War on Drugs." Why can't they
just come to the realization that there is no war- the drugs won a long time
ago.

Americans were toking when we started colonizing. We were toking when the
Harlem Renaissance took place. We puffed through the hippie era. And we're
still hitting the greens in the new millennium.

If politicians stopped looking at "the drug problem" as a criminal issue,
and started looking at it like it was a medical problem, the issue would
solve itself. After all, if someone robs or kills someone while they are
high, they're criminals -but not because they're high. These type of people
would commit crimes without drugs. A couple of college kids sitting around
in a dorm passing a bong watching Tarantino flicks are not criminals,
they're normal, and most importantly, they're harmless.

Actually, why do politicians care if people get high? Those are the people
that don't usually vote anyway. And the people who are in favor of the "War
on Drugs" have probably never even done drugs. In fact, it gives politicians
a lot more power if people are using drugs because those people typically
fall into the cracks and become generally "accepting" of public policy.

So the "War on Drugs" is not actually a war on drugs at all. It's a war to
keep people believing that drugs, and more specifically, the drug-users, are
bad."

from:
http://www.uncensoredu.com/