The Drug War's collateral damage

Realistically if they legalized all drugs crime would be greatly diminished. All drugs would be devalued. No profits no dealers. Each drug would have its own circles, whose participants would no longer need to leave to hunt for the product. We would rarely have to see junkies anymore because they would surface less often, and be able to drug themselves to death as they wish. Marijuana would be widely used to cure over half the worlds ailments.....and we could be at peace.

damn man, thats so fucked.
missunderstanding where no one can really trust anyone

Pigs Pigs Pigs, always trying to get an angle. The people should not be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people. Why do they constantly think they are in still in control?

Drug War. What advanced animals we are. Criminalize the desire to place something into you. Get away with murdering a trained animal (citizen) responding naturally to the what authority has demonized.

That article is damning.

The war on drugs is a war on Americans. The war on drugs is institutionalized racism. The percentage of black men incarcerated for drug crimes is obscene.

Prohibition is a failed and flawed policy. Drug use and addiction should be treated as a medical, not a criminal, problem.

Marijuana should be legalized, taxed and regulated for medical and recreational purposes.

Thank you for posting this. If I could ultra-up it I would. Up with common sense and down with hypocrisy!

187 on a undercover cop

Lack of upfront information creates traps, and beyond completely selfish behavior which is even worse, THOSE are where our society clashes with itself, but it's only because of the lack of knowledge quite often, and that's a tragedy not a crime.

Outlaw casual breeding if you want to make the world an easier place to negotiate.

Prohibition policies create abuse and corruption.

The world is not black and white.

Watch Traffic then thing of how many other much more tragic stories exist though, and it's all because the powerful things are allowed to be used without supervision, instruction, and clear understanding.

Humans are the problem, so there need to be licenses you can apply for etc., not this all or nothing nonsense.

God didn't design the marijuana plant into the playset for it to be used only by the "bad" guys. Seriously, WTF?

Let's try to use things as the carrot they are designed to be, and then we won't have to spend nearly as much on whips that don't work on human nature anyway.

change the policee.

it is a cival right.
it is a cival duty.

The police were cleared of any wrongdoing? They shot an 80-year-old!

Legal weed will help millions of Americans be truly free while creating new business, big and small.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvXBbB11S0

agreed shawn. if they were in posession of drugs with intent to sell (even if they were trying to bust ppl after) they should be charged with distribution. oh and definitely murder in the old dude's case.

They were worried about having their confiscate to resale scheme brought to the public eye. They did what they knew to do....eliminate witnesses. They weren't posing as dealers, they were dealers. Prove them wrong.

The war on drugs another abomination (excuse me "gift") given to us from the 80's cutesy of Ronald fucking Reagan.

hope they take their stinking badges and lock them up for murder... freaken trigger happy people should not be cops

when he brandished the gun, they had a responsibility to i.d. themselves as cops and tell him to drop it, not just open fire.

they are puppets of a delusional system, and i hope they go down the same way, trying to bust some maniac with pills.

i want my cops fighting terrorism, break ins, not have my car stolen, abduction of people, not someone getting high.

cops do a hard job, but they are lied to and mislead, pawns.

That what we get for marginalizing the words of our founding fathers. Referring to them as uneducated farmers and slave owners using the language of the educated elite to slowly erode our own constitution, until, alas it is just used now by special interest groups at their whim for their own selfish needs. Jefferson, Adams Washington Franklin Hamilton and the lot were a lot more savvy then they are accredited for. They were enlightened, and for saw this happening. This why we can never allow gun control, even the Left has much to lose if this happens. Adams said on the eve of the signing of the Declaration of Independence that some day we would celebrate the Independence day from coast to coast with food and fireworks. How could a man in 1776 see into the future? I don't know but THEY KNEW. And if we as a people don't get control of our own Government we are LOST. We need to start by all saving money being prudent, working harder, appreciating what freedoms we have left, and using our free time to better our world. This poor man getting shot by the cops is just one thing out of many, look at Waco, Elian Gonzales, Bill Cooper and others, anyone who go's against the grain ends up dead. These are signs, if we ignore them we deserve our fate.

they OBVIOUSLY don't care about the safety of individual citizens. clearly this was has an ulterior motive.

I really abhor incidents like these it's sends a shock to the psyche ....are you sure they weren't Blackwater??? I wish the internet was more like a giant billboard sometimes.....
More people have to know! After all the drug war is just another government control mechanism. War for profit. think of how many individuals would be suddenly unemployed if that war was ended. I wonder who really gets all the property these criminals (who would merely be merchants if it weren't for the war) are stripped of.

Poppies...Poppies. Poppies will put them to sleep. Sleep...Now they'll sleep!