The War on Drugs
There is always a fascination with War. I have never understood it and will not claim to do so. But there is one War that I have been particularly against--and finally someone has come out to actually say that it has been a failure.
The War on Drugs was launched over forty years ago to eradicate the scurge and cancer of drugs. Billions upon billions have been spent on this so-called War and thousands of the best, brightest and bravest of us have fallen in this so-called War. What I find very very strange is how the usage has gone up despite this so-called War.
The United States, in my view, is the biggest culprit. Ever more quantities continues to come into the United States despite attempts to stop it. The Mexicans continue to fight it out for control of the lucrative drug routes. Calderon, the Mexican President, has been fighting the drug war that has seen over 40,000 people die. It has also resulted in the drug cartels becoming bolder in their actions. The United States, though, in my view has also one more even more important distinction: It is the biggest legal drug market in the World too. I can't believe how people are so medicated and drugged for everything. Drugs seem to be the answer to everything.
There is now, at least, someone who has declared the War on Drugs a failure. The Global Commision on Drug Policy has come out with a report calling the War on Drugs a failure. As I work to further assess the report, what is clear is that a total radical rethink on drugs is necessary. I have written throughout "outsiders" about the absolute necessity for this fact. What will happen is that it will pull the rug from under the bunch of thugs that seem to have the order of the day. It will immediately derive the FARC in Columbia and all the other cults of drugs throughout the world from getting rich at the expense of the rest of society. It will allow a shifting of resources that is ever more necessary in this era of an absolute necessity to do more with less.
Will there be courage to actuallly do this? That's the essential question everyone has to truly think about long and hard.....
The War on Drugs was launched over forty years ago to eradicate the scurge and cancer of drugs. Billions upon billions have been spent on this so-called War and thousands of the best, brightest and bravest of us have fallen in this so-called War. What I find very very strange is how the usage has gone up despite this so-called War.
The United States, in my view, is the biggest culprit. Ever more quantities continues to come into the United States despite attempts to stop it. The Mexicans continue to fight it out for control of the lucrative drug routes. Calderon, the Mexican President, has been fighting the drug war that has seen over 40,000 people die. It has also resulted in the drug cartels becoming bolder in their actions. The United States, though, in my view has also one more even more important distinction: It is the biggest legal drug market in the World too. I can't believe how people are so medicated and drugged for everything. Drugs seem to be the answer to everything.
There is now, at least, someone who has declared the War on Drugs a failure. The Global Commision on Drug Policy has come out with a report calling the War on Drugs a failure. As I work to further assess the report, what is clear is that a total radical rethink on drugs is necessary. I have written throughout "outsiders" about the absolute necessity for this fact. What will happen is that it will pull the rug from under the bunch of thugs that seem to have the order of the day. It will immediately derive the FARC in Columbia and all the other cults of drugs throughout the world from getting rich at the expense of the rest of society. It will allow a shifting of resources that is ever more necessary in this era of an absolute necessity to do more with less.
Will there be courage to actuallly do this? That's the essential question everyone has to truly think about long and hard.....
Mike Pouraryan
