The UN has declared the drug war has failed. It was started 40 years ago by Richard Nixon and the US has invested more than a trillion dollars in the failed war.
In the video, Cenk Uygur (Host of The Young Turks and MSNBC contributor) says the War on Drugs is already lost. Rightardia agrees.
Legalize pot to reduce the strain on the police and to help the economy. The cigarette industry has already trade marked most of the cool pot names and marijuana cigarettes could be on the streets within months of legalization.
The government should put a hefty tax on marijuana products and regulate the production and agricultural aspects of this trade. This should provide a healthy revenue stream for the government.
The police should conctrate more on the hard drugs like heroin and prescription abuse.
We have a heroin problem in this country because of the Afghan war.
In Afghanistan itself, by 1995 an extremist strain of Sunni Islam called the Taliban---heavily funded and advised by the ISI (Pakistani intelligence) and the CIA and with the support of Islamic political parties in Pakistan---fought its way to power, taking over most of the country, luring many tribal chiefs into its fold with threats and bribes.
The Taliban promised to end the factional fighting and banditry that was the mujahideen trademark . . .
The Taliban unleashed a religious reign of terror, imposing an even stricter interpretation of Muslim law than used by most of the Kabul clergy . . .Women who were deemed “immoral” were stoned to death or buried alive.
None of this was of much concern to leaders in Washington who got along famously with the Taliban. As recently as 1999, the US government was paying the entire annual salary of every single Taliban government official (SF Chronicle, 10/2/2001).
That was until October 2001, when President George W. Bush had to rally public opinion behind his bombing campaign in Afghanistan did he denounce the Taliban’s oppression of women . . .
. . . In 2000 Taliban authorities also eradicated the cultivation of opium poppy throughout the areas under their control, an effort judged by the United Nations International Drug Control Program to have been nearly totally successful.
With the Taliban overthrown and a Western-selected mujahideen government reinstalled in Kabul by December 2001, opium poppy production in Afghanistan increased dramatically.
The reason the poppy production increased in because the so-called Northern Alliance that GW Bush brought back to power who were the former drug lords that the Taliban had pushed out of power.
Now we have records amounts of opiates and heroin on US streets because of Bush's blunder that is costing the US taxpayer at least $2 billion per week and up to $12 billion per month.
We got bin Laden. It's time to cut and run and stop throwing good money after bad into the Afghan money pit.
sources:
See http://www.whale.to/b/taliban_h.html
Video by The Young Turks
(August 03, 2010) i
[2009] Afghanistan, Another Untold Story by Dr. Michael Parenti
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