Jimmy Carter (and others) Call For Ending Drug War

[MikeK]

(Excerpt)

Call Off the Global Drug War
By JIMMY CARTER
Published: June 16, 2011 - New York Times

IN an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade. The commission includes the former presidents or prime ministers of five countries, a former secretary general of the United Nations, human rights leaders, and business and government leaders, including Richard Branson, George P. Shultz and Paul A. Volcker.

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opinion/17carter.html?_r=2&hp

 

[Oddball]

Even a blind squirrel....

 

[William Joyce]

The commission includes the former presidents or prime ministers of five countries, a former secretary general of the United Nations, human rights leaders, and business and government leaders, including Richard Branson, George P. Shultz and Paul A. Volcker

So....

Not even knowing what the issue is, and reading who's on the one side...

I'm taking the other side.

Personal opinion: we wouldn't have a "drug war" if it didn't lock up tons of blacks and Hispanics.

 

[rightwinger]

The war on drugs was built on paranoia against a minimal threat. Out prisons are overflowing and the mob is profiting off the drug war

Pull the plug

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Won't happen. It would make too much sense.

 

[newpolitics]

It used to be the war on poverty, and then the war on drugs came about, and ghettoes were gentrified, blacks and hispanics thrown into jail... it's a fucking joke. Something to make voting parents feel safer at night, while the rest of the world suffers and the government and private prisons make tons of money.