This administration has seen the fall of Pablo Escabar and the Cali Cartel. Laws were written allowing international seizures and extradition of traffickers. Domestic drug seizures have increased and forfeitures are bringing in hundreds of millions in cash and properties.
Incarceration rates have increased nearly ten percent every year, making America the world's number-one jailer. Sixty percent of those jailed are drug offenders. There are more drug offenders in jail today than the entire prison population ten years ago! Marijuana arrests alone total over 400,000 annually. (Ironically this is the same figure for tobacco deaths!)
We have the death sentence and life imprisonment for drug charges. We have seen the elimination of parole for drugs and tougher mandatory minimums. (If mandatory minimums work, why are they only applied to drug offences?)
Drug Czar became a presidential cabinet position, and a police chief and one of the Pentagon's highest officers have held this position.
D.A.R.E. is taught unceasingly in public schools nationwide. Yet, if teenage drug use has increased, the statistic itself proves that D.A.R.E. and the War on Drugs are 100 percent ineffective!
Since 1914 the U.S. government has promised to win this war through tougher legislation. What has 84 years of prohibition accomplished in America?!
END THIS WAR!!
September 1996
© 1996-2001 kgs
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