Government surveys indicate over 70 million adults have tried marijuana

Recent government surveys indicate over 70 million Americans have tried marijuana. That's more than one in three adults over 18. The next time you are in a crowd..... remember, on average, one third of the people you see have smoked Marijuana.............Safely		Even if one takes every reefer-madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Proponents of legalization see the issue as being about more than privacy.

It's about ceding control over who gets to buy drugs to organized crime and the black market.

Who would you rather see selling drugs?
Law-abiding citizens who won't sell to kids?   Or criminals who will?
Law-abiding citizens who pay taxes?   Or criminals that don't?
Law-abiding citizens who will use the profits to invest in the stock market?               Or terrorists who might use those profits to blow up the stock market?

It's time to end drug prohibition and take organized criminals out of the recreational drug business the same way in 1933 we took them out of the alcohol business .

Marijuana is the linchpin of the War On Drugs. When we as a nation learn the facts and behave rationally, marijuana will inevitably be legalized, the War On Drugs will end, and the need for new prisons will disappear.

“This battle is no more about marijuana
than the Boston Tea Party
was about tea.”
Michele Kubby

For example, in 1995, six Philadelphia police officers pleaded guilty to charges of planting illegal drugs on suspects, the theft of more than $100,000 and the falsification of reports. The investigations into the officers actions have led to the release of hundreds of defendants whose convictions were overturned by the appeal courts. Also in 1995, two other officers from
Philadelphia received prison sentences of five to 10 years for framing young men. Since 1993, the city of Philadelphia has paid out approximately $27 million in more than 230 lawsuits alleging police misconduct.

If the unknown undercover and 11 uniformed policemen we counted in this picture didn't have more important police duties.........let's send them home and save taxes.

Even if Bush the1st had succeeded in ending the Colombian drug trade, that would not have resolved the problem. Given the resources available to the multi-billion dollar criminal industry, it would not have taken the traffickers long to produce in another country or design a synthetic substitute.

As Ben Whittaker noted in his book The Global Fix over a decade ago: "We can no more hope to end drug abuse by eliminating heroin and cocaine than we could alter the suicide rate by outlawing high buildings or the sale of rope."

Why poison innocent people because some americans like drugs?

The war on drugs alters police self image
	What are they thinking?