I have a better plan that has benefits for other problems.
Legalize pot and coke and we create a huge tax revenue stream and save tens of millions in waste trying to stop the unstoppable. Let if operate just like cigarettes and alcohol. Legalizing coke can lower the obesity in the country.
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US War On Drugs Loosens: Should Kerlikowske be fired?
Roger May 14, 2009 20:04:30
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The White House Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, wants to loosen the "War on Drugs." The new drug czar thinks that calling it a "war" on drugs makes people thinks it's a war on them. The Obama administration wants to take a different approach on drugs; they want to focus on treatment of the issue, not incarceration. HOW? The drug administration also said that authorities would no longer be doing drug raids on medical-marijuana shops where it's legal.
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No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
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No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
Fire Kerlikowske! His policies are useless in the "war on drugs!"
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
It wasn't a "war," it was a policy.
As a policy, it's been a dismal failure preventing the importation and distribution of "drugs" and a social disaster.
It's "high" time the nation as a while looked at this policy deeply and we worked towards a consensus.
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Fire Kerlikowske! His policies are useless in the "war on drugs!"
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
Legalize pot and coke and we create a huge tax revenue stream and save tens of millions in waste trying to stop the unstoppable. Let if operate just like cigarettes and alcohol. Legalizing coke can lower the obesity in the country.
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
Who is this drug czar, Kerlikowske? I need more info on the drug war policies.
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
Who is this drug czar, Kerlikowske? I need more info on the drug war policies.
Who is this drug czar, Kerlikowske? I need more info on the drug war policies.
She tried pot a few times in college and talked friends down and off of crack, because she knew the truth.
If you talk openly and honestly, treat them more like adults, and low and behold the will act like responsible adults.
I think legalization and decriminalization will reduce the chances for kids to buy drugs, you take it out of the control of gangs and put into the control of regulation.
Who is this drug czar, Kerlikowske? I need more info on the drug war policies.
Many folks who use illegal drugs have no insurance or an doctor and they control mental and physical pain by self medicating.
Who is this drug czar, Kerlikowske? I need more info on the drug war policies.
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
Fire Kerlikowske! His policies are useless in the "war on drugs!"
The problem with drug explosion in the ghettos was overlooked until it spread to the suburbs.
The resulting drug war has only made things far worse, because it is largely a war on black, other minorities and the poor. We in the suburbs get drug rehab from our insurance!
Where I lived it was a nice place until the blacks got full civil rights. After that here come the drugs and death. But I made it out, and I live in a place that reminds me of where I grew up before the drugs.
It does seem that when white kids from the suburbs started visiting the ghettos for their drug supplies the intensity of the war in those neighborhoods increased greatly.
For the most part the War on Drugs is an open search warrant for many in the poor areas of many U.S. cities.
Having observed the difference in how my life has gone opposed to that of many of my intelligent Afro-American friends I can clearly see how systematic racism negatively effected many of their lives.
Also a good number of the white kids I knew who grew up in the ghetto also did poorly competing in this business world.
Although one of my close black brothers have done much better than most people I have ever met in this life, starting popular and very successful mass market businesses in the food industry. He now lives in a great neighborhood, one where you can get away with drug use and seek help at a rehab clinic.
I have lost jobs because the white people who I worked with felt that I was out of place, " too educated."
But me being the person I am I could have, been what they think I should be, or did just what I did, I went to the a hearing and won.
I can walk back in that hospital to day and demand my job back, I really don't need it or the stress. I am now a business owner, a housewife, and student.
I never used the drugs and never will, I saw what it did to my friends and family, not me.
The only way the sell of drugs will stop is for the people to stop buying them. The goverment isn't going to stop it, it's fast money for them. and they love money, who ever they are. UNCLE SAM!!! WHO IS UNCLE SAM??? HE NEED TO GIVE ME BACK MY TAX MONEY....
It may be best that we come up with some form of decriminalization of most drugs, perhaps complete legalization of Pot, as a method of reducing harm to our population while being able to gather more honest information about the phenomenon and how to guide people into better life choices.
I accept that it may be possible for some individuals to use certain substances without harming themselves or becoming hopelessly addicted.
A more open and honest approach may yield the truth and the way.
Also all to drug houses and some of the rich that has money flowing in to their accounts need to be questioned. we have gangs and other people that supply the street with these drugs.
Our military need to take over everything and get this mess out of here. as far as make pot legal, we have enough crazy people here. but if it helps someone who has something like MS. it should be given in Rx form " a very low dose" and that's it. But as of now people are over dosing on drugs and dieing.
I think it is best to end the Drug War legalize Pot and decriminalize all else and institute harm reduction programs.
Treat people like adults and they might respond in kind.
I learned about drugs from the streets and seeing what it has done to friends and family members. All my childhood friends are dead except one, they all died from drugs and AID as a result of using drugs, My advice to you is to stop useing drugs and get help before I lose another friend, PLEASE....
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
You come in this world healthy and suffer until you die from health problems.
Do you know drugs split cells and if you are a worman you have a higher change of having a sick baby, and if you are a man you sperm can become deformed???
Stop the drugs while you can.
As for your response. Do you know that most of the legal drugs we now dispense like candy are actually worse for you than marijuana ever thought of being? Did you know that by telling kids not to do something the likely response is going to be curiousity? Dare didn't work for most of the graduates.
I stayed away from drugs and put my time in to something good.
My sister was so far on drugs to the point she would fight me, the youngest..
The goverment don't won't to stop the drugs because it is free money for them. Even the Rx drugs because they can arrest the person that on the drugs and make them pay fines (FREE MONEY) now do you understand what I'm saying??? there is no war on drugs, because if the drugs stop the money stops. I could tell you more but you will pass out.
No. Kerlikowske has good ideas on how to control the drug war in a different manner.
Who is this drug czar, Kerlikowske? I need more info on the drug war policies.