Although Richardson doesn’t want to end the current drug prohibition, like Kucinich and Paul, he is better than most candidates when it comes to Nixon’s failed war on (some) drugs.

Prohibition was a disaster resulting in increased mafia violence and control, until it was finally repealed. Why does anyone think any other drugs are any different?

It’s fairly simple.

Drugs are a product (good or bad) that some people want.

Making them illegal does not make them disappear, it simply makes it more risky to traffic.

Higher risk tranlates directly to higher costs, which makes illegal drugs artificially expensive.

This huge hike in price makes the stakes much higher and therefore leads to mob wars between traffickers and leads to much higher murder rates.

The worst part is that the most harmless people in this whole mess (the people actually using the drugs) are then put in jail, costing society outrageous amounts of tax dollars.

I’ve never used drugs in my life, and I HAVE smoked cigarettes (a bit) and drank alcohol. But I still think there should be no distinction, and none of them should be illegal.

Vote Ron Paul to end the horrible War on Drugs.

-Chad

Kids in schools snitch on friends
Cashiers lose their jobs over a selling a pack of cigarettes.
Neighbors accuse neighbors.

But doctors and the well dressed drug pushers, sorry I mean salesmen can push drugs all day long on the media non stop purple pills.

I don’t drink or do drugs but I am disgusted with the police state mentality.

These past weeks I’ve been in serious pain and taking pain killer almost around the clock. I wonder how difficult it will be to refill this next time; the nerve in my neck is still pinching and I still can’t feel two of my fingers. “War on drugs”; yea right, it should be called the war on common sense with all of us as the victims.