How many people have heard about the Drug War the US is supposedly fighting? A few months ago in another class we were asked whether we thought Marijuana should be legalized in class and seven people were against legalizing it, six were for it, and four were undecided. Those numbers are pretty close and could have gone either way if the undecided had picked one side or the other. Much of the drug war puts Marijuana users away. There are many arguments for and against the Drug War that the US is trying to fight and much of it pertains to the mandatory minimum sentencing the US has and the cost of keeping drug users in jail.
The number one reason why I believe we should stop the so called drug war in this country is that the government is spending to much of our taxes to fight a losing battle. I hav
e not seen any results in this fight and believe it is a waste of time and money. There are many ways the government is wasting our money on this fight.
So I urge you to write letters to your representatives and tell them you want stiffer mandatory minimum sentencing laws and encourage them to continue spending billions of our money/taxes. I believe we as citizens have had enough, have had enough of them spending our money on something that has not seen any results and to repeal the mandatory minimum sentencing. The government has been trying to incorporate 'Family Values', but how can you have family values when the parents are in prison for non violent offenses.
The FBI reported that, nationwide, there were 695,201 marijuana arrests made in 1997 alone. Of these, 87% were for possession. Since 1965, there have been over 11 million marijuana arrests in the Un
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