36. Mark S. Gold, The Good News About Drugs and Alcohol (New York: Viliard Books, 1991). No, it worked. Various use and abuse indices immediately went down.
Wrong. Read the DPFT History of Prohibition
Part I 1898-1933. It covers both alcohol and drugs. There you will find the irrefutable facts and figures.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Says the same about alcohol and drug prohibition:
"The stated goals of current U.S.drug policy -- reducing crime, drug addiction, and juvenile drug use -- have not been achieved, even after nearly four decades of a policy of "war on drugs". This policy, fueled by over a trillion of our tax dollars has had little or no effect on the levels of drug addiction among our fellow citizens, but has instead resulted in a tremendous increase in crime and in the numbers of Americans in our prisons and jails. With 4.6% of the world's population, America today has 22.5% of the worlds prisoners. But, after all that time, after all the destroyed lives and after all the wasted resources, prohibited drugs today are cheaper, stronger, and easier to get than they were thirty-five years ago at the beginning of the so-called 'war on drugs'".
Retired seattle police chief Norm Stamper:
"Illegal drugs are expensive precisely because they are illegal. The products themselves are worthless weeds - cannabis (marijuana), poppies (heroin), coca (cocaine)- or dirt-cheap pharmaceuticals and "precursors" used, for instance, in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Yet today, marijuana is worth as much as gold, heroin more than uranium, cocaine somewhere in between. It is the United States' prohibition of these drugs that has spawned an ever-expanding international industry of torture, murder and corruption."
Jerry Oliver, former chief of police in Detroit:
"It's insanity to keep doing the same thing over and over again. If we did not have this drug war going on, we could spend more time going after robbers and rapists and burglars and murderers. That's what we really should be geared up to do. Clearly we're losing the war on drugs in this country."
Stop rationalizing wrong things by blaming them on "the law."
The drug war protects the violent drug gangs that are flooding our country with drugs and endanger our children. Why do you support torture, murder and corruption?
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