[domenad]

It’s very simple. Under the cloak of the War on Drugs, men have been imprisoned unjustly. Money and property has been confiscated without due process. Civil liberties have been routinely violated. An entire generation of men and women have been turned into criminals because a government entity wants to dictate what they can and can’t put into their bodies. Their livelihoods are often stripped from them. Billions of your tax dollars go down a hole in Columbia. An entire plane of NUNS was shot down in the jungle because it was mistaken for a drug runner plane. For a fraction of the money we spend interdicting other countries, we could treat victims of drug addiction and reduce drug use by the same amount that enforcement currently does without the attendant abuse. The drug war is an infrigement on the liberties of every single American. I don’t know any piece of Democratic legislation to compare to it.

[VeniVidiVici]

So if you legalize drugs, who gets to sell it?

[avacado]

I would like to add to your post that the War on Drugs also serves to keep an very inflated cost on drugs which only serves to easily enrich the drug cartels by providing maximum profit per goods sold.

The WOD should be eliminated. We have pharmaceutical drugs, booze, homegrown meth, and homegrown marijuana. There is no reason to be in other countries worrying about what they produce. The WOD only serves to make the business highly profitable.

It's a bit dishonest to have politicians, e.g., "Patches" Kennedy and his Uncle Teddy all boozed up and on meds while passing drug laws. It's ridiculous. And has it stopped cocaine, heroin, and marijuana? Nope. It's only driven profit up for the cartels.