One more...here's an excerpt:
I don't know how many kids' lives I have ruined but I'm sure the count is huge. I was responsible for putting away young people in their formative years whose only "crime" was testing their newfound freedoms, "dipping and dabbing" in the illegal drugs so easily accessible in our culture.
The US Department of Health and Human Services reports that over 87 million Americans above the age of eleven have used an illicit drug at least once. (14)Nearly all these drug users are living productive lives and contributing to our society. But what if I, or an undercover spy like me, had by chance crossed the path of each of the individuals making up that 87 million, then what would have happened? Each would have been arrested and imprisoned and the rest of the adults in our country would have become their prison guards. A ludicrous idea? Not necessarily. In the drug-warriors' vision of a drugfree America, Richard Miller suggests there would be "millions in prison or slave labor, and only enthusiastic supporters of government policy allowed to hold jobs, attends school, have children, drive cars, own property."(15)
From: "End Prohibition Now!"
By Jack A. Cole, a retired narcotics cop.
http://www.leap.cc/publications/endprohnow.htmIf the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race?
--Frederic Bastiat -- 1801-1850
