Alcohol Prohibition led to widespread corruption of cops and courts. Imagine the levels of corruption drug monies have produced. It will take an enormous tide-shift of public opinion to end Drug Prohibition. It may take 50 years or more. But it has to happen or else freedom is doomed.

Great video, and a great set of people with the right idea. It's not that drugs aren't dangerous, it's that they are too dangerous to leave in the hands of criminals. What we're doing now just isn't working. There's a great site which collects stats from all over the drug war at the following address, I'll hit some highlights but the site itself is immense with a lot more than this. He uses screen captures of the sources themselves, the ones I checked show minor variation in population figures which I'd guess is due to being captured before they were adjusted for the last census, but I've found no error that changed the results. Just some pages that need updated.

http://www.briancbennett.com/

In 1979 the death rate for the cocaine class of drugs, local anesthetics, was 0.1 and it held fairly steady in that range for a few years. In the 80's we went after it in a big way and the death rate started a steady climb to 0.7 as of the last stats, a seven times climb in the death rate.

http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/death/cdc/cocaine-yr.htm

Heroin isn't looking any better, or the opiate class of drugs. 1979-1980 the death rate was bouncing between 0.2 and 0.1, by 1998 it had climbed to 1.1

http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/death/cdc/opiates-yr.htm

Anyone who thinks this stuff is about making it more available has it wrong. It's about saving a lot of lives we've been throwing away. Drugs are too dangerous to leave in the hands of criminals, we can better protect our kids with sensible regulation and quality control. Zero tolerance doesn't work and it never will, trial studies might find us something that does if we're allowed them.

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