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- The War on Drugs is among the most destructive of the "wars" on a metaphor launched by crusading American politicians. Drug after drug have been prohibited in response to a moral panic that had more to do with racial or ethnic anxiety than harm. In this case the purpose was to justify a vast expansion of the police/secret police apparatus in the name of drug prohibition. There are numerous criticisms of the policy but the deprivation of personal liberty is the most compelling. Astonishingly, the United States - the "Empire of Liberty" - now has a higher percentage of its population in jail than any other country ever has. Seriously. More than North Korea.
- The government continues to think that it has some strange right to fuck with peoples business (and computers) and thus, the drug industry now relies upon secret dealings involving code names that everyone knows such as "ice", "speed", "pot", "grass", "reefer", "skag", "smack", "crystal", "crank", "tina", "speedball", "bigflake", "charlie", "rock", and just about any other name that sounds vaguely like a Top Gun callsign. Most of these drugdeals "go down" in a place called "da hood" and could actually be anywhere between 20 feet and 20 miles from your house.
- A protracted conflict waged against the evil forces of drugs, the unimaginatively titled War on Drugs is a never-ending black hole into which vast amounts of money and blood flow. Much like the War on Terror. But in late 2005 Stephen Colbert revealed a shocking fact to the unsuspecting world: the War on Drugs is fictional! Disgust and scorn swept through the Colbert Nation, until we all discovered the reason for this blatant act of untruthiness.
- Main Page | About Mike Gravel | Top Issues | Other Issues | Grassroots Campaign | Online Campaign | Media Campaign | Contacts | Videos | Forums | Chat | Calendar | Donate | Gravel Stuff | WikiProjects | The United States incarcerates more people and at a higher rate than any other peacetime nation in the world. According to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics the number of US residents behind bars has now reached more than 2.3 million. We are losing an entire generation of young men and women to our prisons. Our nation’s ineffective and wasteful “war on drugs” plays a major role in this.
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| abstract | - Main Page | About Mike Gravel | Top Issues | Other Issues | Grassroots Campaign | Online Campaign | Media Campaign | Contacts | Videos | Forums | Chat | Calendar | Donate | Gravel Stuff | WikiProjects | The United States incarcerates more people and at a higher rate than any other peacetime nation in the world. According to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics the number of US residents behind bars has now reached more than 2.3 million. We are losing an entire generation of young men and women to our prisons. Our nation’s ineffective and wasteful “war on drugs” plays a major role in this. We must place a greater emphasis on rehabilitation and prevention. We must de-criminalize minor drug offenses and increase the availability and visibility of substance abuse treatment and prevention in our communities as well as in jails and prisons. We must increase the use of special drug courts in which addicted offenders are given the opportunity to complete court supervised substance abuse treatment instead of being sentenced to prison. We must eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing laws. We must increase the use of alternative penalties for nonviolent drug offenders. Drug defendants convicted of nonviolent offenses should not be given mandatory prison sentences. We should emphasize the criminalization of the importers, manufacturers, and major distributors, rather than just the street vendors. Prison in this country should be a legitimate criminal sanction -- but it should be an extension of a fair, just and wise society.
- Legalize cid!
- The War on Drugs is among the most destructive of the "wars" on a metaphor launched by crusading American politicians. Drug after drug have been prohibited in response to a moral panic that had more to do with racial or ethnic anxiety than harm. In this case the purpose was to justify a vast expansion of the police/secret police apparatus in the name of drug prohibition. There are numerous criticisms of the policy but the deprivation of personal liberty is the most compelling. Astonishingly, the United States - the "Empire of Liberty" - now has a higher percentage of its population in jail than any other country ever has. Seriously. More than North Korea.
- The government continues to think that it has some strange right to fuck with peoples business (and computers) and thus, the drug industry now relies upon secret dealings involving code names that everyone knows such as "ice", "speed", "pot", "grass", "reefer", "skag", "smack", "crystal", "crank", "tina", "speedball", "bigflake", "charlie", "rock", and just about any other name that sounds vaguely like a Top Gun callsign. Most of these drugdeals "go down" in a place called "da hood" and could actually be anywhere between 20 feet and 20 miles from your house.
- A protracted conflict waged against the evil forces of drugs, the unimaginatively titled War on Drugs is a never-ending black hole into which vast amounts of money and blood flow. Much like the War on Terror. But in late 2005 Stephen Colbert revealed a shocking fact to the unsuspecting world: the War on Drugs is fictional! Disgust and scorn swept through the Colbert Nation, until we all discovered the reason for this blatant act of untruthiness.
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