We Lost The Drug War
Monday, December 15, 2008 at 06:43AM
We have 5% of the world's population and now use 60% of the world's drugs. That's certainly not winning this deadly war.
The drug war kills far more people than drugs kill. We're also now exporting our drug war murders, with more than 4,000 Mexicans killed this year alone.
The Netherlands has three decades of regulation, control and taxation and has one-fifth our hard drug use and one-half our marijuana use, which is really irrelevant as no one has ever died from marijuana, but 2,000 college students die from alcohol annually in the U.S.
Dr. Stephen Frye maintains we need to learn the lesson of Prohibition: Legalization is much safer and cheaper for all of us, especially our children.





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