| The War on Drugs, a front for oppressions and control; is the biggest fraud perpetrated on the human race. The result of this fraud is death, oppression, pilfered wealth, mass control, and control of the masses. Drug use is synonymous with human culture. Apparently, so is war. It started out small. The few in control realized the profits and power that could be obtained by oppresssing a large part of the population by restricting their ‘medicines’, vilified by their propaganda as ‘drugs’. The outlawing of a huge segment of society gives the government immense power and control over the people. The drug war has enabled to government to turn a benign aspect of human existence into crime. This is not about some compassionate people on top trying to protect society. This is about terror, extortion, slavery, greed, and oppression. If you think you are not affected you are wrong. One way or another, this drug war has negatively affected everyone on this planet. If you use any of the mind opening substances the government does not want you to experience, you are on the front lines and may be shot, extorted, indentured, or enslaved in the corrections system. To those who think this is a good idea, you are equally affected and just do not know it. Not only do the US Federal drug policies ensure high prices for maximum profit, you are then taxed when billions upon billions are spent each year oppressing non-violent medicine and drug users all over the world. The policy not only deprives us as a population of our tax dollars; it deprives us of our self-respect as a people, our time, and our resources. What could be accomplished with all the people and money, helicopters and planes, and human lives, if all the drug war's destructive efforts were put toward non-destructive policies? The war on drugs’ purported mission has failed. Supply and use has not been affected. The risk attached to the inherent desire to use intoxicants has fueled crime. Now with the cost of the substances and cost of getting caught with them, the policy has sparked robberies, and organized criminals (including the police, all the way up to the top of the people in control) profiting from others' use. You are now even more reliant on the government because of these restrictive policies that promote crime, causing more need for protection from it. Not all drugs are good, but no drug war is good. If left to their own devise, drug users and suppliers would be minimized by the lack of money involved. Users of marijuana can easily supply themselves with a few harmless plants in the yard. Others could purchase their drugs for prices that are insignificant to warrant breaking a valid law to get them. If drugs were legalized, over 60% of what is now considered crime would be gone right off the bat, by not categorizing victimless activity that is going to occur, (drug use) as a criminal act; likening to alcohol use. Under a policy of decriminalization of drugs, crime would be further reduced in other areas. Cheap dispensaries would remove all aspects of robberies to pay for substances that could be obtained cheaply and publicly. In addition, with such a huge amount of police resources freed up do actual police work, instead of selective oppression and persecution of non-violent drug users and suppliers; there would be less need to lock our doors. Tax dollars pay for gas in million dollar helicopters that search almost every person's yard in every county in the country every summer in a failed attempt to eradicate innocent plants that Americans enjoy. Our tax dollars also fund these helicopter missions in Jamaica, Colombia, Mexico, and God knows how many countries. Outside US jurisdiction, harmful toxins are sprayed from planes and helicopters, often at heights that spread far further that the intended target; poisoning innocent people’s food and water. Prison should be reserved for people who are violent or an actual threat to society. The drug war is far more harmful to society than a user or seller of drugs. Since the drug war is a proven failure and drains society in so many ways, it should be abolished. We cannot rationalize the perpetrated horrors, lives lost, freedom snatched, rights trampled, resources channeled to oppress, extort, kidnap, imprison, and poison people. It started out small. With this hypocrisy having escalated to insanity and affecting 99% of society, the problems and effects of this oppression, disguised a drug war; are reason to for it to be condemned. Society cannot look in the mirror with a straight face while allowing the drug war to deprive people of simple substances when they have brought no harm to anyone and with the detrimental effects brought on by creating a worldwide trillion dollar criminal empire. The non-violent victimless crime convicts suffer the most. Policies creating the greed and control over drugs call for years of prison, which do not in any way provide society anything in return. Those who are locked up suffer needlessly, and they do not deserve to be there. These policies stain society and turn human kind into co-conspirators for not have stopped these injustices and plundering of lives, money, time, and human and natural resources. The legalization of drugs internationally must happen. It is critical to make you voice known and to vote against politicians that are drug war fanatics. |
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