D.E.A vs Rational Thinking
Your Tax Dollars at Work

Counter Thoughts to DEA Rhetoric

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Criminalisation of recreational drug use is a make-work project for law enforcement and administration agencies; a make-rich project for the drug barons; an added health risk for the users; a posturing ground for the politicians

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Disapproval of prohibition is not the same as support for prohibited substances.  I do not think we should burn witches at the stake, but that does not mean I support witchcraft. 

I think that all the currently prohibited drugs should be legalized, regulated and taken back from organized crime, but that does not mean I support drug use.

When over 70 per cent of Americans demanded the repeal of alcohol prohibition, they were not expressing support for drinking, alcoholism or Al Capone. They were expressing belated recognition of the painfully obvious.

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Drug users, like alcoholics, do what they do because they want to. Like alcoholics, most feel they have a right, no matter what the government says, to do just that.

It's difficult to convince them that, without having committed a crime against another person or property, that they need to be locked in a cage for protection from themselves or others.

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No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

 -- P. J. O'Rourke  

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Demand for drugs is buoyant, so in a market economy criminalizing the product doesn't reduce use but, increases cost and lowers quality - thus reinforcing criminal control over the industry and increasing the health dangers for drug users

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P.S. Have you ever heard anyone call for the legalization of robbery, rape, murder, child molesting, or abuse? I would guess not!

But we sure have lots of people calling for legalization of drugs in America, don't we?