Drug War Facts - Statistics if Drugs Were Legal
"You have to take the money out of it. Many people talk about legalization and decriminalize — it's still illegal, but you're just not sending as many people to jail, especially for the nonviolent offenses. However, the money is still being made in the illegal sales, so you still have the drug wars. It's prohibition that's killing our people. That's why people are dying."
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It is amazing how invested we are in "the war on drugs" and how ridiculously unsuccessful it has been. Overcrowded prisons, gunfire on our streets, massacres in Mexico. All to keep people from doing what they are determined to do. Did we learn nothing from prohibition?