and while they are at it, legalize prostitution! In Germany it's not only legal, they have health care, unions etc

Prohibition has never and will never work. Drugs prostitution, gambling and the list goes on will never cease to exist as part of any society, its just human nature.

The war on drugs is just pathetic and needs to end.

The ultimate justification used by the not-so-moral majority to justify the war on drug users is the cost to society of allowing people to use recreational drugs. Using this logic the war on drug users should be halted tomorrow. The fact is that the most dire and long lasting consequences of illegal drug use are those inflicted by the legal and penal system on those unfortunate enough to get caught. These consequences harm both the user and society, which foots the bill for arresting, trying and imprisoning the unlucky. A nice side effect is that many of those imprisoned have children who then become a burden on the state. The drug war has created a massive industry comprised of prisons, lawyers, prosecutors, treatment facilities, counselors, halfway houses, etc.. It has created a massive criminal underground, including gangs, that would not last five minutes without the profits that drugs provide. I was recently in Holland, where drugs are NOT legal, but the government devotes little effort to enforcing drug laws. Strangely the streets were NOT filled with junkies nor the hospitals with those dying of drug abuse. One final thought, There is a correlation between the war on drugs and the war on terror, neither one can be won until we address the causes, not the symptoms.

Legalize marijuana, it is hardly to be considered alongside the antisocial hard drugs. It's a shame and a crime that our prisons are full of non-violent drug offenders, most of them in there for simple possession, and most of the drug cases over all for pot.

Legalize it, regulate it, tax it. You don't see gangs running around selling beer and cigarettes now, do you? Take pot away from the criminals.

As history shows us, when the CIA goes into a drug producing region, the volume of drugs exported goes up. The fake war on drugs is just a smokescreen to allow them to fund their covert ops that Congress won't approve. No news here.

The drug war is a class war, with the exporters making billions, and the users getting the slammer, unless they are rich, well-connected, or celebrities.

Cannabis, if legalized, could pay off our national debt. That in and of itself is reason enough to decriminalize it.

People should be educated in the ways to enjoy drugs responsibly.

I've been listening to these oh so logical arguments against the WOD for 40, countem 40 years. They have been proven correct over and over again. Yet we never seem to get off square one on this issue in this country.

What I want to hear are the people who are FOR the war on Drugs. I mean I want to hear the actual arguments from people who actually believe we are going to see a 'drug free world' any time soon. Who after all that has happened, that still believe a law enforcement based 'solution' to the 'drug problem' is feasible.
I mean you must be out there. SOMEBODY must be for this atrocity.

I really want to know. Who is FOR the war on drugs. And why? And I don't mean law enforcement types with an obvious interest in maintaining it. I mean the garden variety 'civilian' who really thinks WOD rhetoric amounts to anything or that keeping this going serves any purpose.

So Who are you? What are you? What makes you tick? What makes you continue to support the biggest disaster in the history of social engineering?

Joe Califano was on CSpan this am with his organization's "back to school" drug report, which is pretty damning of Bush & late unlamented Repiglican Congress. Middle School with cocaine & heroin??

O, my yes.

A shocking percentage of kids say they can get drugs within 1 hour.

So obviously the "drug war" is a farce. Worse,apparently by shifting resources and concern away from the schools, it has actually increased kids' exposure to bad, bad stuff.

Just another piece of evidence that the govt. is controlled by multinational corporations who will let nothing stand in the way of profit.

More specifically, in this case, profit from selling prescription drugs which find their way into middle school lockers.

If drugs are decriminalized, the CIA would lose revenues from all the crap they sell in minority neighborho­ods... Not to mention the poppy fields in Afghanistan, which are now controlled by the Bush crime family. Not going to happen any soon...
Anyone who thought the invasion of Afghanistan would mean the end of the narcotic flow coming out of that country is a total idiot.

Funny how wars on abstract concepts and inanimate objects never seem to work.

Dawg..morc­hiba. You know, I hate my job so much that I git lit at work and stay straight at home. Now that's self medicating. One little chinger in the AM and I'm a much nicer drone. Okay, maybe another chinger right before Adult Swim.

Soon I'm fifty

In Italy, possession of pot plants for personal use is legal. I spotted a "Hemp Shop" in Rome where they sell all sorts of hemp products, including pot plants. Italy, like the rest of Europe has a crime rate that is one-tenth of ours. America talks a lot about freedom, but from my travels, I'm sorry to say that we are not very free any more.

The War on Drugs is another "L-o-o-o-n-g War" that can't be "won"...it­s just another "occupation" by the powers that be.
Prison industries are a growth market, Wall Street loves them, always a guarantee of profit growth.
Why there hasn't been a class action suit against the govt on this subject is a mystery. Surely actions against American citizens that tear families apart and increase the need for relief is transparent enough for legal minds to grasp, and they should go forward with suits on behalf of America and its people.
Drug addiction is a HEALTH problem not a legal matter and should be treated. What other health problem is successfully treated with handcuffs and jail?
What insanity!
And what a bunch of cowards we have in DC.

Its the modern Pharmacractic Inquisition.

The war on drugs is a war on personal choice.

Since when is it the government's role to limit the ways in which I can harm myself in the privacy of my own home?

This is not a safety issue or a driving while intoxicated issue. It all boils down to money.

Pot threatens the pharmaceutical drug cabal, cigarette companies, beer and distilled spirits manufacturers, and the textiles industry.

If any or all of the above could find a way to make pot plants their personal property, it’d be legal tomorrow.

Randy (a dude reasonable enough to allow his fellow humans to choose the method of their self-execution)

ah, sweet chiba, so misunderstood.