Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

For a long time now I've wanted to post a video about my thoughts on 'The Drug War' and prohibition.

But for some reason, I just couldn't seem to say it as well as these guys.
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News & Politics

Tags:

• drug
• war
• prohibition
• marijuana
• leap
• legalization

[dwcarkuff]

The problem is, in spite of all the evidence and the incalculable cost of drug prohibition and the drug war, Americans continue to elect people who promote the drug war. We are, apparently, a very stupid people.

[ashluh]

In the "bi-partisan" system, i don't think it matters who you vote for. Continuously, people vote for red or blue and always the same outcome. Is it our own stupidity, or just everyone submitting to the system. The system that leaves us, the people, virtually choice less.

That's why i admire these guys. They've stepped away from all of the BS and just say how they feel. And from all the comments i've received it appears a lot of others feel that way too.

[urbangrower]

Excellent video!Bravo!...These guys are so right.Legalize cannabis now!Peace.

[raverleash]

ditto to what otwman said

[dwcarkuff]

I have to add, in addition to the utilitarian arguments against the drug war - the cost, the harm done, the lives ruined, the corruption - there is the issue of liberty. There is the principle of self ownership and the acceptance of the absurd notion that you or I or anyone else has the right to tell others what they may or may not ingest. It is absurd to call the US a free society when we do not even accept the notion of self ownership. The motives behind the drug war are evil.

[fuckinghellyoutwat]

@RedneckRager couldn't agree more, want to bet their system? grow your own.

[RedneckRager]

@fuckinghellyoutwat just look at holand since amsterdam legalized drug use, crime is down, addiction rates are down and other than the tourists actual drug use is down. they perpetuate the system of demand and suply through violent means by keeping it illegal

[atlien991]

Ive seen this video many times before but this version is edited.

The part removed is where the retired cop tells students that the Drug War is racial oppression. He says that due to the drug war the US imprisons 4x more Black men per 100,000 than the imprisonment that happened in APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA.

Why has that segment been removed from the middle?

[nonphixional1]

ALL drugs should be treated like alcohol.if drugs were legal all of a sudden they lose so much power and actually have to do their job right.those for prohibition love the power they have to cage you.with no prohibition they have to do real police work and thats too hard and dangerous.it takes skill to investigate real crimes...

[nonphixional1]

leap is awesome finally some common sense. it takes a real man to admit they were wrong. i respect these guys for stepping up.

[Nguli34689]

@RedneckRager I remember reading about the black market alcohol in the 1920's. It was diluted with other solvents and sometimes wood alcohol. Many Chicagoans either became very sick or died as a result. I also remember what my great aunt used to tell me about Prohibition in the 1920's. She was Germany at that time and the newspapers back there would paint a picture of America as a place ruled by gangsters. I'm skeptical when it comes to the media, but not about the ramifications of prohibition.

[Potemtole]

@dwcarkuff  Yeah Obama was all for it untill he got in. Like Everything else he's done.

[tarheels303]

I would like to know if all drugs were legal, where would heroin or meth be sold? How would we prevent a huge increase in drug use?

[RedneckRager]

or worse yet rockynurse the police ARREST your honest drug dealer and they are replaced by several groups fighting over the power vacuum or "profit vacuum" and go about murdering robbing and beating

Its a HORRIBLE policy brought to bear by nixon trying to distract people from a morally questionable war in a foreign country