It’s a cold, dark, night in New York City when few people brave the dimly lit back alleys. One man, however ventures into the darkness. In tattered clothes that barely cover his shivering frame, the lone man uses the dark and seclusion of the alley to shoot up heroin. The familiar warm feeling soothes his aching body, it brushes the pain and the cold away as if he were waking from an unpleasant dream. He needs more, more warmth, more comfort, and more forgetfulness. The enveloping, pleasant, warmth carries him away from the alley, away from the nightmare to a place where he’ll be warm forever. No one will miss the cold body of the man lying in the alley, no one will even notice he’s gone. Why? Because that man had a disease, and that disease
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So many got help. The problem of alcoholism that was plaguing the population was totally fixed just like that!’ That didn’t happen, of course. People died from lack of help or from government assisted wood alcohol poisoning. Those were the real alcoholics, the rest of the population kept drinking anyway in secret… It didn’t stem the tide of growing alcoholism in post-depression America. It didn’t do much of anything good really.”
The War on Drugs has been an expensive and ineffective failure. However, by decriminalizing possession of all drugs and legalizing marijuana, financial losses can be turned to growth, drug related deaths can be drastically reduced, and addicts can finally get the help they need.
Without reforming the current drug laws, those charged with minor drug possession will continue to flood our prisons and drug related deaths will continue to rise. The War on Drugs has not reduced drug related deaths, despite the terrible waste of money for courts, trials, and incarcerations. For the supposed criminals dying in the streets without help, the suburban teenagers whose lives and future careers are ruined by possessing less than an ounce of marijuana, for the patients who could be drastically helped by medical marijuana, and for the common taxpayer paying to support over a million unnecessary prisoners each year, current drug laws need a drastic
So many got help. The problem of alcoholism that was plaguing the population was totally fixed just like that!’ That didn’t happen, of course. People died from lack of help or from government assisted wood alcohol poisoning. Those were the real alcoholics, the rest of the population kept drinking anyway in secret… It didn’t stem the tide of growing alcoholism in post-depression America. It didn’t do much of anything good really.”
The War on Drugs has been an expensive and ineffective failure. However, by decriminalizing possession of all drugs and legalizing marijuana, financial losses can be turned to growth, drug related deaths can be drastically reduced, and addicts can finally get the help they need.
Without reforming the current drug laws, those charged with minor drug possession will continue to flood our prisons and drug related deaths will continue to rise. The War on Drugs has not reduced drug related deaths, despite the terrible waste of money for courts, trials, and incarcerations. For the supposed criminals dying in the streets without help, the suburban teenagers whose lives and future careers are ruined by possessing less than an ounce of marijuana, for the patients who could be drastically helped by medical marijuana, and for the common taxpayer paying to support over a million unnecessary prisoners each year, current drug laws need a drastic