Drug war: It’s about time we leave Nixon behind
Drug war: It potentially affects half the U.S. population,
men and women whose lives could be disrupted forever from one day to
the next. It costs billions of dollars, at a time when schools are
closing down and essential public services are disappearing. It deepens
the nation’s racial divide and tears families apart. It kills tens of
thousands of people, in the U.S. and abroad.
But as both major political parties lurch toward their national conventions, no one’s talking about the drug war.
If ever there was a time to reevaluate the drug war, the 2012 presidential elections are it.
...a refusal to address the disastrous war on drugs and propose
alternatives ignores public demands for change and places cowardice
before the fundamental responsibility of creating viable and fair public
policies.
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