Global leaders call for a major shift to decriminalize drugs

all this to save Mexico!!!!! it won't help

Pot is less damaging to people and causes far less annihbriation than alcohol. In the current economy the taxes on cannibus can save some states. In the 60's we all smoked it every day and it didn't keep us from our MBA's, PHd's or BA's and in fact I used to get the stuff from campus security when I was in college. It's been around for centuries and it does have many medicinal uses for people suffering a wide range of health issues. I feel it's time to legalize and decriminalize marijuana as soon as it is possible.

Previous office holders have no huge budget and government departments to loose if they are not needed. Current office holders want whatever it takes to bring in the money and have pay back posts to assign their friends to. Its all about money and always has been.

Drug use is a colossal waste of time and money, and I generally stay away from people who use drugs for fun, but there's gotta be a better way to deal with this. Decriminalizing it just might neuter all the nasty drug cartels and reduce organized crime.

decriminalize and then tax. clear the courts, cop que sheets; reduce crime big time. give it a two year provisional type law. if it fails. tweak the law where the tweaking needs to be . it's already in practice with alcohol; alcohol is a drug. to those against the reforms i mentioned, take a laxative or two. junkies will be junkies and so on.

The "War on Drugs" has been nothing but a self propelled economy in itself and a failure.

Liz Goodwin--
"Where are all the current office-holders who think the drug war has been a failure?"

Ron Paul has been opposed to the "War on Drugs" since it started. He's currently in office. But Heaven-forbid the media would say anything positive about him.

The drug war is not a failure.... it brings jobs and profits to the huge prison industry. Never mind that millions of people get their lives destroyed... but since when did the lives of regular citizens count for anything anyway?

The "War on Drugs" was a codename for the actual War on the Middle Class.

The government doesnt want you taking your own drugs, because it wants you to buy theirs.

End the violence. Legalize drugs NOW!

How about making it legal without the "Regulation".
Who ever said that the government has a right to "regulate" everything?

War on drugs, war on crime, war on poverty, war on terrorism. These are wars against intangibles, and none of them are designed to be successful. Rather, they are meant to make lots of money disappear into the deep pockets of the corporations that own the world's governments, and if anyone questions it, they are "soft on crime" or "want the terrorists to win" or whatever the double-speak of the moment is.

Decriminalizing even cannabis would cause empires to crumble. Big Pharm could tweak chronic for medical marijuana and designer strains for consumption.

Don't get all excited, drug users. Note that this article does state "but a majority still think the drug should be illegal". So you tell me, what sitting crook, er, politician is going to support something that will cost him or her the office they hold? Of course, legalization makes sense in a few major ways, including the tax revenue Unkie Sam could generate, the tax dollars we'd save on housing prisoners for petty crimes, and, most importantly, the lives that would be saved from all of the senseless killing that takes place in the drug underworld.

decriminalize drugs, tax drugs and use the money to get people off hard drugs?
Will NOT happen!!!
the drug gangs would go out of business and many in the law enforcement industry would loose jobs and contracts and the extra corruption income.
No way are these vested groups going to permit decriminalizing drugs!!!

Global leaders, and Libertarians and PEOPLE WHO READ, not closed minded Faux News brainwashed sheeple have known for decades the Drug War is a duplicate of alcohol Prohibition except that textile, petroleum, alcohol, tobacco, logging and other industries' that would stand to lose markets to hemp/pot pay lobbyists to keep the media LYING about the "supposed dangers" of drugs and pot. They also pay off congressmen to keep the drug laws against legalization. Prohibition creates a prosperous black market for organized crime (again) against drugs for political and corporate reasons rather than genuine ones. As people become more educated their corporate brainwashing is being overcome by reason.

The life-blood of banks is liquid cash, and governments and financial institutions worldwide (including the U.S.) turn a blind eye toward the laundering of drug profits. CIA involvement in trafficking and domestic distribution is well-documented (the money generated during the crack epidemic of the eighties helped fuel America's illegal South-American operations in Nicaragua and elsewhere). While the Taliban eradicated Afgan poppy fields, the U.S. is now overseeing production. The recent crackdown on medical marijuana distribution in the U.S. has nothing to do with the dangers involved (or lack therof) in its use, but in the fact that the marijuana revenue streams can longer be controlled by the financial and governmental powers-that-be. As Watergate's Deep Throat put it so succinctly and accurately: Follow the money.

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O.K. but. Tax payer money should not be used to tread drug addicts. ANYONE Using legalized non-prescription drugs that needs medical attention must have purchased their own medical insurance with money they earned.