Pubdate: Sat, 25 Oct 2003
Source: Maui News, The (HI)
Contact:  2003 The Maui News
Website: http://www.mauinews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2259
Author: Andrew Ericson
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?203 (Terrorism)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)
Note: To read about the "ice epidemic" in Hawaii, go to
http://www.mapinc.org/areas/Hawaii .

HELP END DRUG-FUNDED TERRORISM IN AMERICA 

Buying drugs only supports terrorism because the government refuses to
regulate those drugs like it does alcohol and tobacco, and in the process
gives terrorists a black market in which to make absurd tax-free profits.
This drug-funded terrorism must stop. 

Look where our law enforcement priorities are. We care more about dictating
the substances that enter each other's bodies than almost any other crime. I
think it would be much more productive if we concentrate on stealing and
murder. I never see anti-rape commercials but I have seen the commercials
saying buying cannabis is terrorism.

I know that legalization, or at least decriminalization, of all drugs is our
best way to deal with this problem. We can end the black market, we can end
terrorism funded by drug money. Our prisons are crowded with nonviolent drug
offenders, making it harder to have room for real criminals. The federal
government will spend over $19.2 billion at a rate of about $609 per second
on the War on Drugs this year.

I want my children and all other good people of our earth to live in a world
where the use of marijuana and alcohol is measured by pros and cons and not
by how many months of inhumane imprisonment you will get if you choose the
safer one - a world of peace, not a world of unjustified and endless war.

Please help me by showing your support for drug legalization and regulation.

Andrew Ericson

Kihei
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