Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

[nancylebov]

http://leap.cc/cms/index.php

After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and 37 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses, our confined population has quadrupled making building prisons the fastest growing industry in the United States. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.9 million more guaranteeing those prisons will be bursting at their seams. Every year we choose to continue this war will cost U.S. taxpayers another 69 billion dollars. Despite all the lives we have destroyed and all the money so ill spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before. We would suggest that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. This madness must cease!

And they don't even mention the effects of drug war outside the US.....

Link thanks to The Agitator.

Comments

[beatnikbetty.livejournal.com]

YES I <3 LEAP. My friend works for national hq.

i don't know if you live in MD, but we just started an 'Americans for Safe Access, Maryland' blog, and I've got my first post up. We are SO changing the law in '09!

http://mdsafeaccess.blogspot.com

[n5red.livejournal.com]

I think drugs are often bad for our society but that the "War on Drugs" is far worse.

[madfilkentist]

The worst is the war on medical marijuana. To advance their careers in office, politicians force people to suffer physical pain.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Sigh, our drug policy. Happily, my job does not require me to directly enforce it. Though if my job did, i would.

Even though i mean that, knowing that about me makes me feel dirty.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Would you be looking for another job if you were required to enforce drug policy?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Excellent question. Perhaps time will tell, though the probability of me ending up in such role is small based on my current experience and career trajectory.