[mugs99]

You can't prove any of your contentions with respect to drug use. None of them

I don't need to. The numbers used by government itself prove every single one of them. Every increase in prohibition enforcement results in an increase in drug abuse, crime and violence. The drug war has never produced a decrease in drug abuse, crime or violence. You support the drug war, but you can't come up with any evidence at all that the drug war has resulted in less drug abuse, crime or violence.

Those are the facts.
.

[gleeaikin]

Drug prohibition is not working.

We need to immediately decriminalize the use of marijuana, and possibly some other illegal substances (I have my reservations about cocaine and heroin). Release all those who have been jailed for personal use.

Thereby free up space for keeping potentially dangerous border crossers, who currently are parolled for lack of space and disappear. People will wake up when the next 9/11 turns out to be one of these people. Free up personnel and $$ from prisons to be used for border surveilance and customs checking. There will still be plenty of work for lawyers, etc. But the work will be more to the point.

[robertpaulsen]

"The numbers used by government itself prove every single one of them."

Link please.