Losing the War on Drugs
America is spending millions of dollars to run ad campaigns with teenagewaifs smashing up the kitchen with frying pans, brain fried egg commercials, and other inaccurate and misleading ads put fear into our nations youth and adults alike. One such ad showed a flat line brain scan purportedly hooked up to a drug user. It was later proven that it was hooked up to nothing and most of our nations kids now know it. Seeing the "Land of the Free" turn into a nation that imprisons more of its citizens than any other industrialized nation on earth is neither effective or a good message to send our children. We are building 9 new prisons for every one new university( ). Which do you want built for your children? In this country, we are locked in war we simply cannot win. We strive to protect over 10,000 miles of border, against enemies who are driven by the lure of an obscene really resulted from this war is the overcrowding of prisons, the expansion of law and distrust. If its not obvious already, I am referring to the war on drugs. As time goes on, it becomes more and more evident that the war on drugs is as useless as officials, who use the war as a reelection tool. To study this
interdiction, and recent evidence suggests the CIA has been involved in well known that wars cost money. The "War on Drugs" is no exception, annually (http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/drug-inf.htm). Perhaps the fact that drugs are less taboo in the Netherlands lowers their Crime Statistics). Meanwhile, the United States spends fifty-four dollars more per
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