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Re: National Legalization of Marijuana
having spent almost a quarter of a century of my life watching the "war on drugs" up close and personal, I have concluded that it is a failure. It has given the government powers never intended in the Constitution and indeed, the federal war on drugs required a complete mutation of the Commerce Clause to even justify this crap. The abrogation of freedoms guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth and other amendments are colossal and the millions of lives ruined by this war-from innocent victims caught in gang gun play, to people sentenced to hard time for non-violent offenses is staggering. Plus the astronomical costs imposed on society.
Drugs are bad-and I have little sympathy for people who screw up with drugs. But this war on drugs has caused far more problems than it as solved
You would really have to stretch to draw parallels between prohibition and the current war on drugs. Alcohol use is much, much more widespread, accepted, and the demand for alcohol is much higher than marijuana or any other drug.
Prohibition failed because, ultimately, the general public wanted to drink. Thankfully, the general public doesn't want to get stoned..... that's pretty much left up to old hippies and teenagers.
having spent almost a quarter of a century of my life watching the "war on drugs" up close and personal, I have concluded that it is a failure. It has given the government powers never intended in the Constitution and indeed, the federal war on drugs required a complete mutation of the Commerce Clause to even justify this crap. The abrogation of freedoms guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth and other amendments are colossal and the millions of lives ruined by this war-from innocent victims caught in gang gun play, to people sentenced to hard time for non-violent offenses is staggering. Plus the astronomical costs imposed on society.
Drugs are bad-and I have little sympathy for people who screw up with drugs. But this war on drugs has caused far more problems than it as solved