The American prison system is being contracted out to for-profit companies. Their profit depends on spending as little as possible on the prisoners and the prisons.

Their primary interest lies in having as many prisoners as possible, housed as cheaply as possible. The more prisoners, the more profit.
They spend millions and millions of dollars lobbying against decriminalization of drugs and controlled substances.

Decriminalizing drugs and controlled substances would no longer make it possible for them to operate as a for-profit business.

The “DRUG WAR” is a scam.

Prohibition has triggered the worst crime wave in history, escalating gang warfare even beyond what was experienced in the dark-days of alcohol bootlegging.

* It has created a black market with massive incentives to hook both adults and children alike.

* It has put previously unknown and contaminated drugs on our streets.

* It has made these substances widely available even in schools and prisons.

* It has created a prison-for-profit synergy with drug lords.

* It has helped remove many important civil liberties from the very citizens it falsely claims to represent.

* It has grossly inflated the number of people on welfare who can’t find employment due to their felony status.

* It has grossly escalated Murder, Kidnapping, Extortion, Theft, Muggings and Burglaries.

* It has diverted scarce law-enforcement resources away from protecting citizens from the ever escalating violence against their person or property.

* It has overcrowded the courts and prisons, thus making it increasingly impossible to curtail the people who are hurting and terrorizing others.

* It has evolved local gangs into transnational enterprises with intricate power structures that reach into every corner of society, helping them control vast swaths of territory while gifting them with significant social and military resources.

Imagine if we were to chop down every single tree on the planet as a response to our failure to prevent tree-climbing accidents. That’s what our misguided drug policy looks like. Isn’t it time we all stood up and told the government, that we’re tired of being beaten and jailed so that pharmaceutical companies can poison and kill us for obscene profits?

Prohibition Prevents Regulation : Legalize, Regulate and Tax!

Similar thing with drugs.

The “DRUG WAR” actually INCREASES drug use. In Portugal drug use has gone down since they decriminalized all drugs.

Alcohol is the most dangerous DRUG of all the drugs and is officially listed as such by England. Alcohol is the KING of drugs.

The “DRUG WAR” is like the Vietnam War. There is no plan to ever “win” the war. It will drag on for another thousand years if we let it.

Demand in the USA for alcohol and the other drugs that are now prohibited will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be there.

Criminals and criminal activity are associated with prohibited drugs and not with alcohol.

Drug abuse should be treated as a medical problem, not as a criminal problem.

SAY YES TO LIFE — SAY NO TO THE DRUG WAR