January 17, 2013
The
Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the most senior member of
the Senate, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) again spoke out against the War
on Drugs today during a briefing on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s
upcoming agenda.“The fact that so many people, especially young people, go to prison for a relatively minor thing, a drug offense. And then you ask, why can’t they get jobs afterward? Why do they have problems from then on?Senator Leahy also addressed the disproportionate toll marijuana prohibition takes on people of color:
I think we have spent tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars on the so-called War on Drugs. Well, we’ve lost.” – Sen. Leahy
http://blog.norml.org/2013/01/17/senator-leahy-after-spending-billions-on-the-war-on-drugs-well-weve-lost/
I think it might be more productive for him to claim VICTORY! in the "war on drugs". That way we can move forward with a "Marshal Plan" to set the world right again.
ReplyDeleteEurope recovered much better, once we declared victory, than Vietnam did after we admitted defeat, or more accurately said "to hell with you guys and your black pajamas, you didn't win! We just quit, we're going home!"
You're right of course. Now we need to decide where the "Marshal Plan" money will go. I have my own ideas.
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