Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Trump Should Surrender the Drug War 

 by Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan

 

 ... "Trump seems hell-bent on reinvigorating some very tired thinking at the highest levels of U.S. law enforcement." ... 

... " If drugs were as dangerous as drug warriors claim, the United States would be a post-apocalyptic hellscape, and it simply isn’t. Experiments in marijuana legalization bear this out. A majority of the states have legalized marijuana in some form, and eight states have gone so far as to legalize or decriminalize marijuana for recreational use. Most typically seen? Peaceful people going about their business."...

... "those who are arrested are harmed more by their own government than most of them ever would have been by the drugs from which they were “saved.” ...

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