Former Fed Says Punish Cartels With Legalization

[mapache11]

It just occurred to me that the cartels may actually be paying bribes to government officials to keep drugs ILLEGAL. hmmmmmmmmmmm Okay. Time for a blunt.

[The1Tonic]

Plus this is a waste of time and money and lives. Might as well charge the Cartels taxes. Could they be in business with the govt?

[rubbersole79]

Time to get some lobbyists, (the only way to get things done in D.C.) put some new faces on this cause, and get this bitch over the hill....

[bamasace]

decriminalization is the word we should be using , legalization carries an implication that government should control and regulate> hence the same crap, intrusion into a persons private matter

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

Millions of Americans lives ruined forever due that they needed a relief from the American stressed life and didn't wan't to use the Liquor Bussines Mafia products and decided to smoke a hangover free plant. Trillions of now needed dollars wasted on Law Enforcement of a natural plant that was banned for use in USA by the Liquor Mafia Lobby. Hey don't use that plant, use my liquors or I will send the agents payed by you to arrest you. The Liquor Lobby owns you.

[elvi84]

As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon ... which our government was founded."

[Charles195th]

And another thing...Legalizing pot aint gonna do it. Cocaine is where the money is.

If people want to sniff stimulants until their hearts explode...so be it. Pot is just going to make therm easy targets for predatory ARMED FOREIGN SOLDIERS FROM MEXICO !!! This is unfortunately now a real war on our front yards in Baltimore and Ohio { Kinda like that all American railroad...} now a wasteland.

[Charles195th]

You won't be able to regulate it any better than you can stop it. Just let people do what the fuck they want...and they will disappear from scene. If it takes a real war in Baltimore to make these people say Uncle...that is such a shame ... 359 Kidnappings in Arizona alone in one year. Thats out of anyones control...So what are they saying now..."We surrender to you the United States of America because we were to stupid to see that we funded our enemies for 40 fucking years.

[undergroundbasement]

NOT JUST CANNABIS ! , but ..A-L-L DRUGS , any and every drug should be FREE for any and all. I've said it many times, WHERE in history do we see people losing their freedom over using any kind of plant compound? What about ROME?GREECE? EGYPT ? ENGLAND during the Medieval age? the 13 Colonies during the 1600's and 1700's? the States during the 1800's? Govt. didn't start locking people up UNTIL after the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 and the Marijuana Prohibition Act of 1937, REVERSE THIS MESS

[GunOwnerDan]

Marijuana has been illegal for over 70 years yet today in high school it is easier for students to buy marijuana than it is for them to buy alcohol! Clearly prohibtion DOES NOT WORK!

[TheHauptsturmfuhrer]

WRONG!!!

SHAME on you,you obviously know better.Your logic is stupidity.Don't we have enough drunks and nuts loose on the streets now and you want more???Drugs were not a problem in the past because America was mostly WHITE.Legalize drugs in todays predominately NONWHITE controlled drug culture and you definitely will have far more crime and violence than you can possibly imagine.Thanks for recommending that our culture get even more corrupt with more drugs.Insanity,stupidity and criminal

[GunOwnerDan]

Prohibition does not work. IT NEVER HAS AND IT NEVER WILL!

[edavismookie25]

Drugs were not a problem in the past because the users were mainly white?! Obviously it was a problem (since it was outlawed) and NONWHITES were forbidden on pain of death from using drugs. Maybe you should view the video A history of drugs. Believing that white people could somehow control themselves under the influence of drugs more than any other group is not only unhistorical, illogical, but it is also just plain stupid.

[xuj22]

Don't you see what's going on here. The pharmaceuticals AND the oil companies are threaten by this product we call pot. The uses are enormous, replacing alot of drug and oil related products. DO THE RESEARCH. They don't want to lose that much money. We talking BILLIONS of dollars. Even the privately run prisons would lose money. That's why there so much lobbying against it. LEGALIZE POT!! WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO KEEP THESE COMPANIES RICH!!!!

[rmcdaniel423]

@xuj22 You make good points. If they were smart they would diversify, lobby for legalization, and utilize their resources to efficiently bring hemp products to the consumers. But they are short sighted, so let them die out. It's time for new entrepreneurs to capitalize on this eco-friendly product. American farmers deserve to make a profit for a change.

[candysugar100]

It's hilarious I just realized something it's freaking hard to get your hands on prescribed stuff than illegal drugs that are not regulated why hasn't this country use their common sense? Do we have any left? Legalize!!

[calirep35]

jenn1ifer you are the fucking idiot. Marijuana is well on its way to being legalized, and will be as early as November 2010 here in California. Once we all see the benefits of legalization that we have been talking about for ages in action, it will be a domino effect across the country.

Marijuana is easier to get in schools under prohibition then it will be when it is regulated and controlled. Do you think people who sell marijuana ID anyone??? hell no they don't.

[pooinsky]

Decriminalisation works. End of. Look up portugal and amstardam.

[jenn1ifer]

this guy is a fuckin idoit! the U.S. will NEVER legalize drugs or marijuana. drugs will ALWAYS be illegal, and marijuana will only be legalized for the terminally ill. that is a giving up attitude. this is the most powerful, and richest country in the world and we need to set an example for all other countries that drug use will NOT be tolerated in this country. we will continue to put red ribbons on all elementary and middle schools that stand for "drug free".

[ICTN218]

Was pulling out of Vietnam bad just because we were 'giving up'? No, when you realize what you've been doing all along has been a mistake, why keep making the same mistake? What's really so bad about drug use anyways? What would be the negative consequences of ending prohibition?

[savedbytheShroom]

Yeah you are absolutely right. We won the War on Drugs. illegal drugs are no more available in the U.S. The State of California is one of the most prosperous states in the world. In contrast with illegal drugs, legal drugs have no negative side effects, never had and never will have, because there was never any corrupt politician in this Great Country.

We should build more prisons to protect the land of the Free. And if you don't believe in this, well you will burn in Hell for eternity!!!

[candysugar100]

jenn1ifer you let your emotions blind you from the facts put your personal opinions and emotions a side and look at only the facts What expertise do you have on the subject? The guy spent his career fighting against drugs so he knows more about what he is talking about you dumb ass. Alcohol is legalized and you can die from a binge drink in one night but if you smoke a lot of weed you cannot die but yet alcohol is legalized and marijuana that is less harmful is illegal? Use common sense! FREE MJ

[xuj22]

Evertbody uses drugs, weather it's aspirin,caffine, alcohol, or prozac. You just are using double standards, Pot is the ONLY drug that actually has good health benefits, do some research.

[rmcdaniel423]

@xuj22 You're right about the hypocrisy of people who say they don't use drugs, even though they use several drugs daily. However you are wrong to say "Pot is the ONLY drug that actually has good health benefits." Antibiotics, antihistamines, anti-inflammatories, statins, antithrombolitics, insulin, levothyroxine, epinephrine, and MANY others all save lives, prolong lives, and make lives more comfortable. THC is not the ONLY good drug, but it SHOULD be added to the list, for sure.

[AmericanDrugWar]

Search Youtube for HOW WEED WON THE WEST

...featuring Kyle Kazan of LEAP!

watch?v=MzT1a1NKoKM

[realdeal0083]

email your congress men or write them fill there mail boxes up legalize it

[Chuckjagermeister]

A decade ago, anyone with the idea of legalization was automatically labeled a druggie! Now, people are finally becoming rational and seeing the decades long failure of the War on Drugs and how horribly dogmatic Zero-Tolerance and Get-Tough bullshit really is.

[EssiacHempLaetrile]

CANCER CURE = RICK SIMPSON'S HEMP OIL

[valenciafil]

why does big pharma lobby against this??

[valenciafil]

thank you.....i want to be a Businessman and a libertarian lobbyist

[averagejoesgym71]

Im speaking only about mary jane here. I haven't researched enough to say there is some sort of conspiracy. Nonetheless, the effect has been to attack a "brown people" drug and to lock up milions of thousands brown and black people for non-violent cannabis crimes. An Orewllian private prison industry has developed. There are laws that keep current and former inmates from voting. Conspiracy or not, I know the average white supremacist right-winger doesn't want it changed.

[duhneeceofnm]

I live 100 miles north of El Paso, am very aware of the violence and pray the war on drugs is about to be over. It was a war on people, on addicts, on minorities and I am so glad people like Terry and Beto are willing to speak out.

[dullsvillain]

Tell them Terry!

[swankrecords]

The 'policy' was never supposed to work. Otherwise it would have ended decades ago.

The intended goal was to create a PERPETUAL multibillion dollar law enforcement and litigation industry known as The War on Drugs. The USA spends close to $40 billion annually on this industry.

Tell your local Sheriff that his county's agency will no longer receive overtime pay or **any funding** for non-violent drug issues and watch him freak out.

[buzwazfuz]

your completely right, but they can create the same spending on regulation and distribution of drugs. plus they can make a profit and allocate that money to real, non drug related crimes. which will probably go down as well.

[Bankingcartel]

That ain't no shit, they would freak out.

[steveo9001]

i love random nubers