Panel suggests legalization: Thoughts? Well I guess we already had this discussion...
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/02/136880386 ... has-failed

Sonofagun wrote:Panel suggests legalization: Thoughts? Well I guess we already had this discussion...
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/02/136880386 ... has-failed

The worst thing (which has been typical) is that the administration has basically dismissed the report.

Too much money to be made fighting the war so it continues.

At a convention of police chiefs many years ago there was a poll taken asking what dropping the price of street meds (maybe if we don't call them drugs the idiots will listen) and dispensing them at cost would do to property and violent crime in their respective cities. They nearly all said it would evaporate.

The only problem is that the people making the real money off of both ends of it are too powerful to permit serious discussion directed at removing the criminal distinction associated with it, from the feds on down.

Remember that when Reagan wanted to fund Iran-Contra he only had to sell coke in East Coast cities for a little while to do it...

This has nothing to do with rational.

The members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy are not a bunch of bleeding heart radicals, but pragmatists on the left and right. I agree though it's a political hot potato so the Obama Administration just dismissed it at least until the end of the election. There is too much money being dumped into law enforcement and too many cops and prosecutors with almost a religious zeal who will fight any change. It was a battle in California getting drug courts which seem to work well. Any change will be incremental probably with the legalization of marijuana. Ironic that one of the declared Republican presidential candidates Gary Johnson of New Mexico favors legalizing it.