36 Seconds: Drug Reform is Critical
Marijuana Decriminalization
Higher quality & content resubmission of a drug policy reform video. It's the second month of 2010, and Washington has already spent over 3.5 million dollars, not on better education, not on poverty stricken children - the War On Drugs collected that chunk of your well-earned money.
Credit: Jeanne Sparks-Carreker
Copyright: Jeanne Sparks-Carreker
Published by Jeanne Sparks-Carreker
Convicted felon, reformed drug trafficker, disenfranchised from society by the government. I spend most of my time creating ways to educate non-users about drug addiction, so that addicts are understood and... View profile
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Post a Commenti do not agree with legalizing much more than marijuana, and even that should be under the strictest regulation possible.
absolutely not! but we could end up like the netherlands - has a total population of about 16.5 million, it has only about 12,000 prisoners. On the other hand, the United States has greater than 2,300,000 total prisoners.... There, adult citizens can use, buy and possess small amounts of marijuana without criminal sanctions. In the United States, adult citizens are subject to arrest, and jail or prison for buying, selling or possessing various amounts of marijuana...
So let's say Washington abandons the War on Drugs. Does that mean that Washington ought to legalize certain drugs and then have the US end up all chaotic like in Amsterdam, which has such a policy?