END THE DRUG WAR!!!!

There are many disasters of political policy in the history of the American Government. One of them being Prohibition. An amendment was drafted and signed onto the Constitution and was later abolished due to the fact that laws to not determine behavior. People will do what they want, regardless of any laws. This is an obvious mistake. The only results of a prohibition law is a black market for the product, and a stigma attached to the product, which generally results in more use.

Prohibition of drugs has turned into a War on Drugs, mostly on marijuana, in this 70 year prohibition of marijuana and over 90 years for harder drugs, and constantly changing with new drugs that have been discovered. This has cost our government Trillions of dollars, and an estimated $40 Billion per year through state and federal funding. That money inevitably comes from our pockets. What has happened from this? Are drugs gone, or anywhere near being gone. Anyone who has ever bought drugs, and the estimated 15 million at least monthly marijuana smokers in America will tell you that isn't going away. Those figures do not include the cost of incarceration of drug offenders.

Due to the fact that trade of marijuana and most all drugs are illegal, it has fueled an international black market. These cartels and factions are violent, countries are run by them. Look at Columbia. I've met innocent Columbians about their country. It is a war zone they say, where the police are so corrupt, and those in the factions will do anything from rape women, to simply shooting a man for no reason. This is all because of the lack of regulation and the criminalization of cocaine here in America and abroad.

No regulation or estimation has been done by the Federal government for illicit drug trade. How are we supposed to fight a war without knowing we're winning. Just blindly swinging our arms and catching the random drug smuggler, or user. We have no idea how much drugs are coming into, out of, or are being made right here in the United States. All we know is who law enforcement catches, and that tally. But for example, it's widely known that during Pot Growing raids times police will weigh an entire plant as well as the pot full of soil, claiming all the plant has THC the main ingredient of Marijuana. But marijuana is defined by Websters, Wikipedia, and other on and off-line encyclopedias to be just the "Flowering tops of the female Cannabis plant."
So basically the buds are all you sell, and a big pot of soil can weigh many more times than the plant. So we cant really say the estimates from drug seizures are not a good help for guessing even roughly the amount of drugs in this country.

With eradication forces of the DEA, traveling to the barren opium fields of Afghanistan and the Mountainous Coca Plant Regions of Bolivia and Columbia and destroying crops of the illegal nature. But to a blind eye, this would seem good. The cowboys at the DEA wrustlin' up some international drug cartels and blowing up fields of drugs. But there may be a few rich folks that run the operation, evil in the sense that all business men are. The majority of people who work with processing cocaine, and extracting opium are poor people who can't find another decent job to feed their family.

As there will always be an insatiable urge in society by some to use drugs, why not fulfill that? It has proven to be more detrimental to our society to fight drugs and try to eliminate them then to just have drugs.