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.

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.