As do I. Every single one of them. you should be able to do all the LSD and shrooms that you want if you're not hurting anyone. Bernie doesn't however want to annex Canada... What you should go do is look up Portugal. In 2002 Portugal decriminalized every drug. Every single one. What did they do with the money that they spent on policing it? They use that money on childhood prevention, childhood education, and on treatment. They did a study in 2012 and every single instance of drug use went down. Every single drug should be decriminalized. The War on Drugs is a sham and a huge waste of money that was started by Ronald Reagan. We could do the same exact thing. Let's punish the crimes that people commit. Destroying your body with drugs should not be a crime. I agree with Portugal.
History lesson. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/cron/ October 27, 1970 (Democratic) Congress passes the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention and Control Act This law consolidates previous drug laws and reduces penalties for marijuana possession. It also strengthens law enforcement by allowing police to conduct "no-knock" searches. This act includes the Controlled Substances Act, which establishes five categories ("schedules") for regulating drugs based on their medicinal value and potential for addiction. June 17, 1971 Nixon declares war on drugs At a press conference Nixon names drug abuse as "public enemy number one in the United States." He announces the creation of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), to be headed by Dr. Jerome Jaffe, a leading methadone treatment specialist. During the Nixon era, for the only time in the history of the war on drugs, the majority of funding goes towards treatment, rather than law enforcement. July 1973 The Drug Enforcement Administration is established President Nixon sets up this "super agency" to handle all aspects of the drug problem. The DEA consolidates agents from the BNDD, Customs, the CIA and ODALE. The administrator of the new agency is John R. Bartels. 1978 Asset forfeiture introduced (Jimmy Carter signed this Democratic Party controlled congress passed bill) The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act is amended. It now allows law enforcement to seize all money and/or "other things of value furnished or intended to be furnished by any person in exchange for a controlled substance [and] all proceeds traceable to such an exchange." Reagan was president from 1981-1988
You honestly don't know what you're talking about. You're saying we should continue to jail users for possession? Do your homework http://www.spiegel.de/international...tion-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060.html http://mic.com/articles/110344/14-y...riminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening
Read your own links. Portugal decriminalized, they did not legalize. Two very different concepts. I would be interested in some decriminalization but not legalization of heroin and coke.
Exactly! Because the reality is coke and heroin are "decriminalized" already. The pharma puts them in everything we use for pain.