Tag: War on drugs

Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) stated Friday that he opposes legalizing recreational marijuana, telling WKOW in Madison that he’s deferring to law enforcement from around the state. “Recreationally, no, I’m not [in favor of legalization].” LeMahieu said. “I’ve heard from local law enforcement, law enforcement around the state…

When the US coalition invaded Afghanistan, along with the War On Terror, we brought along our totally failed War On Drugs. We did everything we thought possible to eradicate the poppy fields of Afghanistan…totally ignoring the fact that opium has a long history of cultivation in the area. We tried…

This seems worth a discussion: Over a decade has passed since Portugal changed its philosophy from labeling drug users as criminals to labeling them as people affected by a disease. This time lapse has allowed statistics to develop and in time, has made Portugal an example to follow.  First, some…

United States population, as a percentage of world population: 5% Number of individuals incarcerated in the United States as a percentage of total incarcerated persons worldwide: 25% Food for thought.

Fareed Zakaria: “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today,” writes the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America – more than 6 million – than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at…

Noted raconteur and bon vivant, Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club has come out in support of legalizing The Lady… “I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol,” Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. “I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to,…

In an op-ed appearing in the Washington Post on Thursday, former President Jimmy Carter called for an end to the global war on drugs. In a message to Congress in 1977, then-President Carter said the country should decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, with a full…