whoops, got off track and into a anti-usa rant again...
03/05/2003 03:28 a.m.
so, for health class, we have to write a paper on some topic relating to drugs. i chose the topic of wheather the drug war should be waged internationally... however, i got sidetracked. read on:

The war on drugs: who wins?

We've all seen those ads on TV. 'This is your brain on drugs' sent a huge message to people in the mid-90s. That was the high spot for the 'war on drugs' campaign. Many people wonder why the United States, fighting so rabidly to keep drugs off it's own soil, with all of it's resources doesn't do more to help out other countries with the same problems. Unfortunately, the campaign has had to diminish itself to trying to tell us that buying pot supports terrorism. If you think about it, supporting the war on drugs only perpetuates the drug problem in the United States and beyond. And that DOES support terrorism. Instead of having a controlled drug trade, people must risk their lives trying to get drugs into our country. We raise such a fuss about marijuana, crack, ecstasy, heroin, and any other number of drugs, but our own tobacco market kills more people a year in the US and the world than pot ever has. The demand for drugs has always been constantly higher than the supply. Restricting this supply can cause deadly drug wars, and cause more chaos than good. Keeping people safe and healthy is obviously the supposed concern. But, if this is so, then why do we still keep tobacco legal? this is not a war on drugs. This is a war on competition for the US Drug dollar. It's simple. by making people buy US made product, that stimulates the US economy. The political aspects of this matter simply outweigh the social benefits presupposed by a 'war on drugs'. Bringing this front to an international level will only bring our governments in to their own massive drug war. Think about the worlds toughest street gangs. Now think of those gangs as posessing nukes. that's what an 'international war on drugs' would eventually escalate to. And when the world is on the brink of total destruction, some crack-head ODing is probably one of the last things any government is really going to be caring about. it's as simple as that. a war on drugs is a war where nobody wins. period.
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