The Drug War can be easily eliminated by simply securing the borders. Pot and industrial hemp should be legalized but not the other drugs.
"The Drug War can be easily eliminated by simply securing the borders. "
Oh I dunno, the drug war really hasn't been that bad. How else will our police departments augment their funding?
Securing the borders--if you really think that's possible even in theory--may work against cocaine and heroin, but meth and grass are most often made/grown in the US.
In fact, the US grown marijuana is so much more potent and available that it has largely ended large scale importation of the evil weed from Mexico and S. America.
Some people say it is the second largest crop behind wheat in the US in terms of gross dollars.
How is "securing our borders" going to stop that (not that I disagree with secure borders).
I have been arguing "man-made global warming" with somebody on another forum.
I'm amazed that many of the anti "man-made global warming" extremists see the "War on Some Drugs" as propaganda and a power grab - but don't see the same in the Global Warming debate.
Over here, it is the opposite - many on this forum see the Man-made global warming debate as pure propaganda and a power grab - while supporting the War on Some Drugs
And they are both, the EXACT same thing.
Get some consistancy to your logic people!!!
Neither the Republicans or Democrats have any real desire to secure the border - the occasional election hype rhetoric notwithstanding.
They derive too much money by keeping it porous.
The WOD is a self-perpetuating industry.