The passage of marijuana-legalizing ballot initiatives is already having a profound impact on Nixon's failed drug war.
In Washington state, which legalized marijuana last Tuesday, two county prosecutors have already moved ahead and dismissed more than 200 misdemeanor marijuana cases, providing much needed relief to an already over-burdened criminal justice system. In 2010 alone, more than 750,000 Americans were charged with possession of marijuana – and virtually all of those arrests take place on a state level.
Washington and Colorado, which also approved legalizing marijuana, have delivered the strongest blows yet to our nation's long-lasting failed prohibition attempt. Now it's up to President Obama and the Justice Department to let these new laws stand.
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Nixon's drug war was a means to silence the majority of war protesters at the time who openly used marijuana. Black ops operations cant be funded through congress, because you have to account for every dollar. So to fund clandestine operations, they needed that drug money and less competition in the black market. Along with the fact that thousands of returning troops became addicted to opium after dealing with the atrocities of the war in vietnam. Now we have more private for profit prison facilities and more prisoners than any country in the world. Two words: cash cow.
ReplyDeleteNixon started the war on drugs as a method to try and stiffle the protests by those dirty hippies for his illegal bombing in Cambodia and an end to the Vietnam war.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't work back then and is a waste of law enforcement resources to this day.