The United States' War on Drugs is ineffective for the following reasons:
*It creates a black market economy for organized crime. US citizens spend more than $65 billion per year on drugs, and that's $65 billion in the hands of criminals.
*American taxpayers pay $22,000 a year to keep a non-violent drug offender in prison.
*Tobacco kills more than half a million people each year, while illegal drugs account for only 17,000 deaths.
Doing drugs is a behavior that the United States will never be able to
stamp out. As we saw with the prohibition of alcohol, that policy did
not stop people from consuming alcohol, but only led to the
establishment of organized crime. The same is true with drugs. Keeping
drugs illegal only serves to create a black market which feeds money
into organized crime. If the War on Drugs were ended, and drugs
legalized, then our prisons would not be full of non violent offenders,
and organized crime would lose its revenue stream. The United States
could then enact laws to control drugs, similar to how alcohol and
tobacco are controlled, that would ensure quality while also reeducating
people on how to be smart with recreational drug use.
If you support the legalization of recreational drug use, and regulated sale of those drugs, similar to how alcohol and tobacco are regulated, please sign our petition.
Updates
June 4, 2011
I started this because the reality of our current policy felt impossible to ignore but I never imagined so many people felt the same way. Reading your thoughts has been eye-opening and it is clear that this conversation belongs to all of you now.
June 4, 2011
I am honestly a bit stunned by the reach this has gathered. This momentum belongs entirely to the people who took the time to read the facts and push for a smarter path forward.
3 Comments
END THE PROHIBITION. IT AINT WORKING.
Its about time we stop this madness. Tobacco and alcohol are way worse and nobody goes to jail for those. Just tax it and be done.
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The United States' War on Drugs is ineffective for the following reasons:
*It creates a black market economy for organized crime. US citizens spend more than $65 billion per year on drugs, and that's $65 billion in the hands of criminals.
*American taxpayers pay $22,000 a year to keep a non-violent drug offender in prison.
*Tobacco kills more than half a million people each year, while illegal drugs account for only 17,000 deaths.
Doing drugs is a behavior that the United States will never be able to
stamp out. As we saw with the prohibition of alcohol, that policy did
not stop people from consuming alcohol, but only led to the
establishment of organized crime. The same is true with drugs. Keeping
drugs illegal only serves to create a black market which feeds money
into organized crime. If the War on Drugs were ended, and drugs
legalized, then our prisons would not be full of non violent offenders,
and organized crime would lose its revenue stream. The United States
could then enact laws to control drugs, similar to how alcohol and
tobacco are controlled, that would ensure quality while also reeducating
people on how to be smart with recreational drug use.
If you support the legalization of recreational drug use, and regulated sale of those drugs, similar to how alcohol and tobacco are regulated, please sign our petition.
Updates
June 4, 2011
I started this because the reality of our current policy felt impossible to ignore but I never imagined so many people felt the same way. Reading your thoughts has been eye-opening and it is clear that this conversation belongs to all of you now.
June 4, 2011
I am honestly a bit stunned by the reach this has gathered. This momentum belongs entirely to the people who took the time to read the facts and push for a smarter path forward.
3 Comments
Finally some common sense. We are wasting so much money locking people up for simple possession while real criminals get off easy.
END THE PROHIBITION. IT AINT WORKING.
Its about time we stop this madness. Tobacco and alcohol are way worse and nobody goes to jail for those. Just tax it and be done.
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Finally some common sense. We are wasting so much money locking people up for simple possession while real criminals get off easy.