Re: this is your war on drugs
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I'm surprised that your passion on this issue is only a 3. I cant think of many more obvious, crucial problems that could INSTANTLY solve so many problems as stopping the War on Drugs. Getting worked up over abortion, gun laws, pretty much everything else we talk about, is FAR less important than ending the war on drugs. Prisons instantly become less crowded. Billions of dollars are saved. And thats without even getting into POTENTIAL positives like, say, drug use going down or becoming safer. After the war in Iraq, there really arent many bigger issues than this. You mention all those negatives in your first paragraph almost as if in passing but those are pretty huge IMO.
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I'm totally unconcerned as to whether drug usage goes up or goes down, and I'm even more unconcerned about drug usage becoming safer. Most of the reason I'm wavy about drug legalization is that, as I stated in my first post, I want the US welfare system dismantled, and when I say dismantled, I mean leveled, nuked, gone from American existence.
Then, my passion for dismantling the drug laws will go to about 9.
As to the "prisons becoming less crowded", as stated, I have little reason to doubt most who would be released if all the drug laws went away tomorrow would soon be back for other offenses.
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