Man Jailed Three Months for Breath Mint Possession

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/135531.html

So much for innocence until guilt is proven. Little wonder why people run from the police, you can lose everything because you're eating a dinner mint!

To Reduce Violence, End the Drug War

http://original.antiwar.com/henderson/

Prohibition has never worked, except in totalitarian countries, perhaps...and even then corruption often has drugs being exported with a wink from the government. Do we want to live in a totalitarian country so we'll be safe from violence, terrorism, drugs and whatever else we've been told to be afraid of? Sad if we do.

Commentary: War on drugs is insane

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/31/cafferty.legal.drugs/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Again, slowly: Prohibition.... doesn't.... work....

End the War on Drugs

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul515.html

Prohibition never works... it fails to stop what it was designed to stop, and it creates a violent criminal black market in the process

Harvard economist: Prohibition creates violence, legalize all drugs

http://current.com/items/89914072/harvard_economist_prohibition_creates_violence_legalize_all_drugs.htm

"Prohibition creates violence because it drives the drug market underground, This means buyers and sellers cannot resolve their disputes with lawsuits, arbitration or advertising, so they resort to violence instead."

I'd have thought this would be obvious by now. The "War on Drugs" is not really a war on drugs, but a war on people, a war to control them and imprison them, to keep them scared so they call on the government to protect them. In protecting them, the government can control them. Simple. Keep the people scared, keep them under control. It limits our freedom, which is dangerous to those who would seek Empire. Don't believe it... but it's not about whether Empire comes, it about what kind of Empire we are facing. 

Executing children for the War on Drugs

http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/2228

Here's another reason the war on drugs isn't really a war on drugs at all, but a war on the citizens of the United States - Are we ready for the Revolution yet? 

The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/

So... if decriminalization works, not just in theory but in demonstrable practice, why do we continue to jail more people than any other country in the world, a vast majority of them for drugs? Is pot so dangerous that people need to be incarerated for merely posessing the smallest amounts of it? If meth really is so dangerous, wouldn't it be more important to get people to not use it? This is not achieved by throwing them in jail. Or is it really about criminalizing not drugs, but people?