Instead of declaring failure and surrendering to our enemies, I offer another solution, destroying them. We should fight a real drug war in Colombia and Afghanistan and win it, instead of playing defense fighting an unwinnable war on the streets of America.
“The Taliban would still get money from drug sales if it was legalized.”
Less. Dramatically less. I don’t have the figures, but if we are not more than 1/2 the market, I would be greatly surprised.
“You can legalize drugs in the US, but not everywhere in the world. We would be declaring ourselves the enemies of all the governments around the world still fighting against narco-terrorists.”
Yes, I saw all those countries that declared war on Holland. On a serious note, most countries don’t give a damn. They only have the laws because we do. If we stop, everyone would follow (well except Iran, which has the strictest drug laws in the world — and the highest drug use rates).
“We would be helping jihadists and communists take over those countries and going into business with them.”
No, we would be producing the stuff ourselves. This crap grows everywhere. The only reason it is grown in the mountains of Pakistan is its hard to get to the mountains of Pakistan, thereby protecting them.
“We would be helping them destroy our own nation.”
Again, drug use rates drop in countries that have legalized drugs. So no, this is false. We would help save our nation by spending much less money on stupid, useless, efforts and creating a police state used by Obama.
Taliban huh?...
Biggest U.S. Cash Crop: Marijuana
The annual marijuana crop harvested in the U.S. is now the nation’s most valuable, worth more than cultivation of corn and wheat combined, according to an analysis by the former head of the legalization group NORML.
Reuters reported Dec. 18 that public-policy analyst Jon Gettman estimated the value of the U.S. marijuana crop at $35 billion annually, with California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington each producing more than $1 billion worth of the illegal drug each year. Gettman estimated the annual California marijuana crop to be worth $13.8 billion.
The estimates were based on previous federal reports showing that the U.S. produced more than 10,000 metric tons of marijuana each year. At $1,606 per pound, that makes the crop worth at least $35 billion, compared to $23.3 billion for U.S.-grown corn, $17.6 billion for soybeans, and $7.4 billion for wheat.
“Marijuana has become a pervasive and ineradicable part of the economy of the United States,” Gettman said. “The contribution of this market to the nation’s gross domestic product is overlooked in the debate over effective control … The focus of public policy should be how to effectively control this market through regulation and taxation in order to achieve immediate and realistic goals, such as reducing teenage access.”