Pubdate: Sun, 13 Jul 2003
Source: Daily Herald (IL)
Contact:  2003 The Daily Herald Company
Website: http://www.dailyherald.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/107
Author: Richard J. Rawlings

WHY KEEP FIGHTING POINTLESS DRUG WAR?

The nation's drug czar, John Walters, has announced the start of his new 25 
cities initiative to help combat the nation's drug problem at the local 
level. Does he really think going to the 25 largest cities in the United 
States is going to help solve the problems at local levels?

What kind of plan is this? It is another failed plan, another waste of our 
tax dollars. A chance for him to sugarcoat the drug war. This 30-year war 
has not decreased supply or demand. It is a wasteful, counterproductive 
government jobs program that creates the crime it claims to protect us from 
while tramping on the Bill of Rights in the process. The countries that 
have legalized, regulated or have decriminalized marijuana are not in a 
state of anarchy. Why does the U.S. government keep insisting we fight this 
war?

Richard J. Rawlings

Founder, Illinois Marijuana Party

Bartonville
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