About F%$%king time.... \t\t\t US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs' \t After 40 years, Washington is quietly giving up on a futile battle that has spread corruption and destroyed thousands of lives \t \t\t\t\t\tBy Hugh O'Shaughnessy Sunday, 17 January 2010 After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being pulled from South America; Washington is putting its narcotics policy under review, and a newly confident region is no longer prepared to swallow its fatal Prohibition error. Indeed, after the expenditure of billions of dollars and the violent deaths of tens of thousands of people, a suitable epitaph for America's longest "war" may well be the plan, in Bolivia, for every family to be given the right to grow coca in its own backyard. The "war", declared unilaterally throughout the world by Richard Nixon in 1969, is expiring as its strategists start discarding plans that have proved futile over four decades: they are preparing to withdraw their agents from narcotics battlefields from Colombia to Afghanistan and beginning to coach them in the art of trumpeting victory and melting away into anonymous defeat. Not surprisingly, the new strategy is being gingerly aired in the media of the US establishment, from The Wall Street Journal to the Miami Herald. Prospects in the new decade are thus opening up for vast amounts of useless government expenditure being reassigned to the treatment of addicts instead of their capture and imprisonment. And, no less important, the ever-expanding balloon of corruption that the "war" has brought to heads of government, armies and police forces wherever it has been waged may slowly start to deflate.
Jesus must be about to arrive, because this is a miracle! Naw but really, The U.S. really has blown up about the war on drugs lately and I couldn't be happier to live in this time, unless I could live in another time to do drugs freely... haha no but really when I'm 21 I'll probably be able to go somewhere to buy weed, 2 years. It really is about time though.
Where did this article come from? I will believe "change" when MJ is no longer classified a narcotic. (class 1, I think.)
Well shit. That's going to save us heaps of billions of dollars. All I want is weed legalized man I don't do anything else (besides MDMA but that's like a couple times a year).
First baby step for U.S government is to recongize that marajuna does have geniue medical use for many people and move it down to schedule II or schedule III.
I'm all for treatment for people addicted to amphetamines, however, legalizing them is just going to cause more people to actually need the treatment and will be a bad downward spiral. Don't get me wrong MJ should be 100% legal but not all drugs are as benign as the sticky icky. I've seen too many of my friends change from coke, and not for the better.
Thank the lord, this happened earlier then i thought it would, but its about fuckin time.. wheres the source to this article though?
I dont believe that shit for one min. I just read one post about obama banning flavored tobacco but their calling an end to the "war on drugs"?
besides somthing that significant would be in the news, not just one journalist article....or was it a post? you find that on the web?
I don't know, I would think that this would be made much more public. The only places that I have read this are news companies that I've never heard of, with nothing that really backs up what they are saying.
It's just a catchy title, like when Forbes titled their piece "How Marijuana became legal" when it most certainly is not