Pot in America

[--Pete]

Hi,

The war on drugs is killing US citizens, mostly in law enforcement. While they are not "rich", I don't consider them expendable either.

True. How many people, on both sides of the law, died for the foolishness of Prohibition? That brave and honest men are being sacrificed, even if it is a willing sacrifice, in support of poorly rationalized causes does not demean their sacrifice. It does, however, bring into question the basic humanity of those who sacrifice them. Pin bars on those politicians who vote to continue the war on drugs. Dress them up in fatigues, hand them an M-16 and drop them into the mountains of Columbia or the poppy fields of Afghanistan. Send them in to battle the drug runners of Mexico or the dealers in the inner city. And when they've done that for a year, if they survive, ask them if the sacrifice is worth it, if controlling the free choices of others is worth the price paid. Let those that want a war on drugs get into the trenches and fight the damned thing themselves -- put their hides where their political mouths are.

--Pete