WASHINGTON DC -- Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the police who fought the failed war are saying "enough is enough."
Former law enforcement officials gathered in the District of Columbia on Tuesday to discuss a new report . . .
Since President Nixon declared 'war on drugs' four decades ago, this failed policy has led to millions of arrests, a trillion dollars spent and countless lives lost, yet drugs today are more available than ever," said Norm Stamper, former chief of police in Seattle and a speaker for legalization-advocacy group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
The officers' announcement came just weeks after the Global Commission on Drugs released a report urging a non-criminal approach to world drug policy.
The commission's recommendations were reportedly dismissed by both the Obama administration and the government of Mexico.
Backed by the US, Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a crackdown on drug cartels in 2006.
Der Gropenator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, holds more progressive views on marijuana than Obama. Marijuana should be decriminalized and the cigarette industry showed be allowed to produce maryjane cigarettes.
This would help the economy and get a lot of penny ante drug dealers off of the streets. The government could raise billions in taxes on marijuana agriculture and marijuana cigarette production.
Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and it isn't working for marijuana. The police would be freed to work on the really dangerous drug crimes relating to heroin, morphine, roofies and prescription drug abuse like Oxycontin.
We agree with the former DC police. Obama needs to be more 'out of the box" on drug policy.
The GOP will probably whine about it, but "so what!" Let them whine!
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