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US IA: PUB LTE: A Budget Saving Idea: End the War on Drugs

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n110/a13.html

Newshawk: Kirk

Votes: 0

Pubdate: Sat, 19 Feb 2011

Source: Des Moines Register (IA)

Copyright: 2011 Kurt Johnson

Contact: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/99999999/HELP/40507010

Website: http://desmoinesregister.com

Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/123

Author: Kurt Johnson

 

<P class=clipping>A BUDGET SAVING IDEA: END THE WAR ON DRUGS

 

One area of the federal budget that should be cut is the money spent to fight the drug wars. Primarily, this means decriminalizing personal drug use by peaceful adults and regulating the sale of currently illegal drugs. Whether we are talking about controlled drugs or prescription drugs, it should not be a civil or criminal offense for peaceful and honest adults to ingest any substance.

 

If a person drives a vehicle while intoxicated or commits crimes to support a drug habit, that is a different situation, and it is a proper role of government to protect citizens against the real threats to physical harm by others. It is also a proper role of our government to protect children. But, we should not wreck the futures of peaceful adults by giving them a criminal record for drug use.

 

You can drink as much alcohol as you want in your home or at a bar ( as long as you don't drive while intoxicated ), and that is your personal business, and it has no effect on your ability to get or keep a job or to serve in the military or to get an education. But, if you get caught using drugs, you will have significant problems in all of those areas. That is not right, it is not just and is a wrongful infringement on our liberties.

 

Kurt Johnson, Urbandale

MAP posted-by: Richard Lake

 

 

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Even if we used the money for toilet paper it would be more productive.