Latin American Panel Calls U.S. Drug War a Failure
A commission led by three former Latin American heads of state blasted the U.S.-led drug war as an utter failure in a report released Wednesday.
The report, by the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, called for the U.S. to re-examine its punitive, enforcement-based drug policies and consider decriminalizing the use of marijuana.
What’s really startling about this report is not its findings – we’ve long known the war on drugs was a failure – but rather our government’s response. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday: “If the drug effort were failing there would be no violence … We’re taking these guys out. The worst thing you could do is stop now.”
Not only does this statement ignore the plethora of evidence showing that U.S. drug policy has failed to curb marijuana use, it clearly admits that drug-trade violence is a symptom of marijuana prohibition and not marijuana use – something MPP has been saying, and drug warriors have been denying, for years.
Please take this opportunity to visit www.house.gov and tell your member of Congress about the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy’s report entitled Drugs and Democracy: Toward A Paradigm Shift.
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I’m completely and utterly confused. Why is our government ignoring the facts? What’s going on?
Nothing makes sense.
“If the drug effort were failing there would be no violence …”
THAT is the response from a “senior U.S. official”? Is that not the most absurd and contradictory statement imaginable? The mind boggles…
David,
There is a direct link between Big Pharma nd the DEA.
Big Pharma knows that it can not patent a plant (cannabis) and thus there’s no money in it for them. Besides, they have a monopoly on drug production. Every one of the drugs they produce has a serious side effect. This causes a revolving door type of effect. You get sick, you get treated with their dangerous drugs (which may or may not cure your ailment) while giving you a completely different type of health problem for which they give you more dangerous drugs and on and on.
The DEA is the watchdog of Big Pharma. If you “tresspass” on Big Pharma (using cannabis for anything from from depression to curing cancer), they send out the dogs (DEA).
Oh yes – I did say cannabis cures cancer. Go to YouTube and search for Jim Simpson and his video series “Run Away From The Cure”. After watching this video, you are going to get REALLY pissed off as you will see how the US Government, Big Pharma, The DEA and the ATF have been LYING TO YOU AND ME for 75 years.
I’m sorry : RICK SIMPSON. Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhT9282-Tw
Do christian’s actually think that the Devil created Marijuana? When I think about the Devil, I do not think that He would actually do any thing good for us humans. Any way an old addage says” Caffeine, you can sleep after your Dead.” The current addage “Marijuana, you can smoke it after the Government smokes you.” I hope our new President want’s to leave us a better legacy than that. Make Marijuana smokers free from the hipocracy of the failed Drug War!!!!!
David, the gubment has you right where they want you confused.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Big Pharma doesn’t have a face you can point to, so they get away with prescribing dangerous drugs while the DEA acts as their watchdog.
It is all about money. The gubment doesn’t care aboout you or me. This is why we must take action – any and every action necessary to BUST UP BIG PHARMA.
Big Pharma knows that it can not patent cannabis, LoL, my script 4 marinol states other-wise. And where do they get marinol?
from pressing apples of course. Marihuana prohibition is about religious rivalry, one puff and u might begin to believe that
Nature is God. Surely it has nothing to do with the subjective belief that pot is illegal because its bad 4 public health, for
if this were true, then say goodbye to the marlboro-man sitting atop his pale horse smoking a cig. & sipping gin & juice.
marijuana will be made legal once again, then will be illegalized, then legalized, then illegalized…the whole debate is
beautiful cyclic distraction, as well, marihuana serves a scapegoat, blame all social ills on an aversive & innocuous plant,
just dont menton that the socialized one-way cradle 2 grave model of harmonic societal existence maybe the singular blame.
the best advice is to go smoke your rope, stop fretting, dont get caught in the agreeing 2 disagree debate, and hope u dont
get busted.
David, boy did you hit the nail on the head. As long as the politicians keep getting their pockets filled with that Big Pharma money, the DEA will always have all the money it needs to terrorize. Maybe it’s time for a Boston style teaparty, only this time we dump a couple of truck loads of these killer drugs that Big Pharma is peddling with the blessings of our beloved FDA
jim, your buffoonery…post more…haven’t laffed this much in a century….bravo, bravo….
Has anyone been paying attention to the crime wave on the TX/Mexico border? The violence is epidemic!! Local sherriffs are begging for more money to prevent the spread of cartel-based violence north of the boder> Just what we need! More financing for the war on drugs that doesn’t work. Why is nobody discussing legalizing marijuana and thereby knocking out some of the financing for these criminal organizations? And then tax it like cigs and use the proceeds to work on addiction to the hard stuff. We all know that as long as gringos are buying the hard stuff someone will take the risk to deliver and make the big money..and then take the money and guns south of the border.
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The funny thing is that Mexico is considered a “backward country”. Right. The country that gave it’s people back one of their most basic freedoms is backward.
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