Dan, I totally agree that we need to try another direction than the so-called "war on drugs." I've been saying for decades that the "war on drugs" has been lost and has become a huge financial drain on our society. Rather than keeping on locking people up, inducing them to commit more crimes to fund their habits, making drug cartels rich, etc., we need to at least investigate some other possible ways to control drug use. Just as the attempt at alcohol prohibition didn't stop the use of alcohol but enabled the growth of organized crime syndicates, the "war on drugs" has enabled the growth of even more powerful drug cartels. I've never used drugs and haven't even tried a marijuana cigarette but can see the futility of the path we've been on since LBJ. Addison
On Mar 4, 2015, Dan Penoff wrote: From: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Facts Date: March 4, 2015 2:27:37 PM PST To: Mercedes List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> I'm not endorsing Bill Maher by any means, but he did say something the other day on his show that I thought was pretty astute: http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/bill-maher-calls-obama-end-drug-war-free-drug-war-prisoners We lock up so many people in Federal prisons with mandatory sentences for stupid things. This has done nothing to stop the flow of drugs or for that matter, the "drug war". It's a giant resource suck of not only taxpayer's dollars but of human resources as well. Just my $0.02. Dan > On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:11 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Not the guns yet, but the bullets now. The Apostate has a pen and a phone! > > --R > > > > On 3/4/15 4:03 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >> Hey - you forgot our first Kenyan Muslim non-Christian President who Wants >> to Confiscate Your Guns. You're getting soft! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
