Drug Laws

DRUG LAWS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD. APPEAL THEM.
Alcohol prohibition tore America apart once. Now it is the war on drugs. Harsh laws and the threat of jail and fines will not stop drug use. All they do is make it harder to help people. And just as Prohibition created organized crime, today's drug laws keep organized crime alive -- with all the violence and corruption that goes along with it.
Before drugs were illegal, Americans handled them with few problems. Let's respect the right of people to control their own bodies.
Decriminalize drugs, help those who need it, and let the police spend their time protecting us from real crime.




BUT IF DRUGS WERE LEGALIZED, WOULDN'T THERE BE MILLIONS MORE DRUG ADDICTS?
I, too, want to live in a society where people are healthy and productive, not destroying their lives with addictive drugs. All of the hard drugs were legal before 1914, and there were few addicts. Studies show that even addicts can be productive, and also that they do not engage in crime when they can get their drugs inexpensively.
We have addicts today despite drug criminalization. We also have the violence that is caused by drugs being illegal. Let's decriminalize drugs so we stop the violence and get help to those who need it.