The WAR ON DRUGS Is INSANE-By Jack Cafferty

By Jack Cafferty
Special to CNN

Jack Cafferty says America's effort to prohibit illegal drugs doesn't work and should be rethought.

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The United States is the largest illegal drug market in the world. Americans want their weed, crack, cocaine, heroin, whatever. And they're willing to pay big money to get it.

The drug suppliers are only too happy to oblige. The Mexican drug cartels now have operations in 230 American cities. That's 230 American cities!

And we're not just talking about border towns, but places such as Anchorage, Alaska; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; and Billings, Montana. They're everywhere. And they don't just bring drugs, but violence and crime as well -- lots of it at no extra charge.

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If drugs were legalized, we could empty out a lot of our prison cells. People will use this stuff whether it's legal or not. Just like they do booze. And you could make the argument that in some cases alcohol is just as dangerous as some drugs. I know.

Like I said ... something to think about. It's time.

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they get cheap labour, people to work for slave wages in prisons. the so called war on drugs benefits huge corporations a great deal. so i doubt the rubes who suck up to corporations in washington will change anything anytime soon. they dont want to upset the big PAC donors.

for law enforcement verticals, including and beyond the privatized prison industry.

It needs to end, sooner rather than later.

The cops here will 'confiscate' every damn thing they can get their hands on, whether involved in an incident or not. They keep any cash they can find without proof it was involved in drugs, and auction off peoples boats, cars, motorcycles, etc. Legalizing just pot would cost local law enforcement hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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...the bogus "war on terror" is equally phony, and a cover for a very REAL war against democracy.

What we honestly have is a narco-prison-industrial complex to dismantle...one every bit as powerful and pervasive as the military-industrial complex of Eisenhower's fame.

Cops, lawyers, DA's, slimy politicians, local and state governments, bankers...they ALL have a vested interest in the status quo.

Non-violent drug offenders go into the "corrections" system and are converted into hardened criminals; people no more, and merely survivalist animals, indoctrinated into thug life or racist gang life. Instead of being "rehabilitated", prisoners are dehumanized and then thrown back into circulation without a prayer of success.

What I find particularly offensive is the lack of outrage from those religious pro-life nut bags - those who will protest and burn clinics, or shoot doctors, or wear sack-cloth and ashes in the public square lamenting the erosion of human rights and morals. These people are so concerned with the decisions of people and doctors that they will never ever meet that they become blind to the REAL social injustice and inhumane treatments that are conducted EVERY DAY in all of our names by these state run institutions of abuse.

The hour is growing late...the breakdown of our society is well-underway (perhaps irreversibly)...the longer we allow society to be consumed by ignorance and religious-based nonsense instead of addressing the structural leaks in our republic, the closer we come to the day that it all comes undone...

Anything big pharma is pushing is A-OK! :thumbsup:

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finally get some relief without being looked upon as a suspect. The doctors are afraid to prescribe meds for people when they really need it and they have been for years.

The whole WAR ON DRUGS is a political racket!

What do you suppose the total price tag is for this failed war on drugs? One senior Harvard economist estimates we spend $44 billion a year fighting the war on drugs. He says if they were legal, governments would realize about $33 billion a year in tax revenue. Net swing of $77 billion. Could we use that money today for something else? You bet your ass we could. Plus the cartels would be out of business. Instantly. Goodbye crime and violence.


The Drug War has been a Epic Failure.