A Nudge for our Political Hypocrites. A Little Sunlight Could Help. Please Consider.

Not the religious hypocrites, but the drug-warrior-tough-on crime types. The frauds that need to be exposed are those who have done drugs or smoked marijuana and now craft and vote for laws that make a mockery of the word ‘freedom’ while ruining millions of lives - these people need to have a spotlight shown on their records. Relentlessly. What is hoped for is to leave no room for them to hide, all across the nation. We need bloggers, journalists and everyday people bringing to light those from their past who now support laws that define the word ‘hypocrite.’ They’re in every state and in our nation’s congress. Lawmakers at the federal, state and local levels. Judges, mayors, police chiefs, lobbyists and pundits that advocate, profit from or in any way continue this failed prohibition. And if they won’t do what’s right because it’s the smart and compassionate thing to do, then they should answer for their cowardice and failure.

It would defy logic to believe for even a moment that of the 119 people in the Oklahoma Senate and House that voted for a law that could put one in prison for life for hash, zero of them ever smoked marijuana. They should answer to everyone why they think that crimes they themselves committed should now inflict on someone else, the same penalty as a multi-murderer would receive.

http://newlsb.lsb.state.ok.us/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=hb1798

Although Oklahoma is arguably the most backward and sadistic in its drug war, with hundreds of examples of outrageous applications, it is certainly not alone. New York City, a supposedly liberal oasis, has thrown its hat into the ring and in doing so, has gone off the deep end. Tens of thousands of arrests and hundreds of thousands of stops per year over small amounts of marijuana. Yet when Governor Cuomo proposed honoring the spirit of the Constitution and ending harassment of citizens, Republicans in the New York Senate voted it down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/nyregion/cuomo-seeks-cut-in-stop-and-frisk-arrests.html?pagewanted=all

There are egregious examples all across the country, from federal raids on state sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries, taking medication away from those on the edge of death, to a single mother being sentenced to twelve years in prison for $30 of pot, to peaceful college students having promising lives devastated for possessing something that shouldn’t be illegal to begin with. Science, common sense and compassion are on the side of ending prohibition. We’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars while ruining millions of lives. It’s time to end this now, and the outing of drug-war hypocrites is one weapon that may help. Anyone can post on Face Book and other social media sites; they can write letters to the editor or otherwise pressure journalists and the media to cover these people intent on doing the wrong thing.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201106/why-the-war-drugs-has-failed

This issue is non-partisan and this action will go a long way to improving our country by giving people a chance to live normal lives; and it moves us one step closer to the liberty we have been expanding on for over two hundred years. Don’t be afraid to pass this around. Thanks for any support.