Isn't It Time To
Abandon The War On Ourselves?
DRUG PROHIBITION:
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Creates a criminal class of great wealth with the power to corrupt
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Provides profit motive for selling drugs to our youth
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Generates huge illicit profits that fund terrorists and
destabilize nations
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Wastes between $35 and $40 Billion of our taxes each year
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Arrests nearly 1.6 million people each year, most just ordinary
citizens
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Chips away at our Constitutional rights and liberties
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Targets African-American and Hispanic communities
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Denies marijuana to patients suffering with AIDS, glaucoma
and cancer
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Spreads AIDS and Hepatitis C to the general population and to
newborns by denying clean needles to injection drug users
EXPERIENCE
TEACHES:
Prohibition fails but liquor stores and pharmacies succeed in
controlling soft and hard drugs.
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