CNBC: Is Now The Time To Legalize Drugs?

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Jan.15
8:33 AM ET
Thursday, 15 Jan 2009

Is Now The Time To Legalize Drugs?
Posted By: Cliff Mason

This may be apocryphal, but when FDR was running for President for the first time in 1932, he said something along the lines of "What America needs now is a good, stiff drink."

Then he won and went on to help end prohibition.

Well, now we've got a new Democratic President coming into office, we're in similarly dire economic straits, and maybe what America needs is a nice toke?

It's time to legalize, or at least decriminalize, drugs. Admittedly this would be a blow to the flourishing prison industry at a time when we don't want to cause additional job losses.

But perhaps we could make up some of those lost prison-guard jobs by opening up new rehab clinics and filling them up with addicts who need treatment.

more:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28672671

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1. States would save huge sums of money

Jailing thousands of non-violent drug offenders (and having to pay for their health care), costs states a fortune. Some states are even moving in the direction of not jailing first time non-violent offenders to save money.

The prison guard unions will bitch about it, but that's one union that I am fully in favor of busting.

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2. FAMM is one of the BEST organizations "out-there".

Families Against Manditory Minumums.

Here is FAMM's Link to the Huffington Post Article.

New Year, New Administration, More Clemency.

One can only Hope!




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-flom/new-year-new-administrati_b_157876.html

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3. I read somewhere that is costs $5 to produce a pound of Pure Cocaine in a Lab Setting...

If you look at the millions of dollars it costs taxpayers in Medical Bills, Car crashes, Burglaries, Thefts, Car Jackings and shootings.... wouldn't it be cheaper and better to put severely addicted people in a lock-down Medical Center and GIVE them free Cocaine until they can be weened off?