One of the biggest mistakes made by our government was the criminalization of marijuana. Almost half of the drug arrest made today are for pot. Our jails are overcrowded, but we won’t decriminalize pot. By not doing so, we are only making the problem worse. By placing an 18 year old kid in jail for posession of a couple joints, we are not doing him any favors. We are merely introducing them to hardened criminals, and paving the way for them to get involved in harder drugs, and more violent lives.
I have placed a link on the sidebar of this blog to the cost calculator for the war on drugs. Take a look at some of the information listed there, and make up yout own mind.
I am also including a couple links to some stories I found in Rolling Stone. The first one is an overview of the war on drugs focus on pot, while the second one is on the the futility of the war on drugs in general. Both of these stories illustrate how useless our current methods of dealing with drug use in America are. If we spent the money on treatment that we currently do on trying to squash the drug trade, we’d be a lot further ahead, and we could save money in this fruitless war.
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