Bob,
Have you read Chasing The Scream on BARD, yet? Johann Hari takes apart all
of the reasoning behind, not only the war on drugs, but the criminalization
of drug use, and he shows how drug use and drug addiction can be handled
differently.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Why the Drug War Has Been a Forty-Year
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Hi Miriam,
Not only has the drug war been a 40 year lynching and a way to keep the poor
in their place, it has also been a bonanza for organized crime.
I recall my early days of college when I foolishly predicted that grass
would be legal before the year 2000. Then I heard Nancy Reagan leadeing
angry mobs shouting the dreaded "just say no." Me and my college buddies
used to mock those chants with chants of "just say yes."
The drug war has caused family breakup, mass incarceration, increased
profits for organized crime and for-profit prisons, and a terrible waste of
both human and monetary resources.
Hey wait a minute! One could argue that the for-profit prison system is
merely an extension of organized crime!
Bbob Hachey
