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Watch Out for the Anti-Legalization Arguments!
Posted by FoM on May 13, 1999 at 12:57:06 PT
By Steven Martinovich
Source: Liberty Journal
The purpose of a war, in my mind at least, is to win battles with the ultimate goal of defeating your opponent.Yet after the spraying of pesticides on drug crops in third world nations, armed troops patrolling the borders of nations, interdictions, the infringing of individual rights thanks to search and seizure laws, the incarceration of millions of people, and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, it is no more difficult for one to buy illegal drugs today then it was ten years ago. 
It's probably easier since back then everybody was worried that it was inevitable they would be arrested...today we know better.I am of course referring to the war on drugs funded and fought by nations across the world and the prohibition against buying, selling and using them. A campaign that has seen many battles "won," but little in the way of victory assured.Thanks to the drug-fueled turmoil of inner cities, the continuing ease that they can be obtained by anyone almost anywhere and a debate about liberty, a growing number of people are calling for a re-thinking on drug policy. National Review founder William F. Buckley is not the first and only prominent member of the conservatism movement to call for legalization of illegal drugs, performing that feat repeatedly in his newspaper columns and in the NR itself, but it does prove that some heavyweights have come to the conclusion that the current policy of prohibition is a clear failure and must be replaced with a more rational one.Click the above link to read the whole article!
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