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Greens on Drugs
The Green Party has an excellent platform on drug policy reform at:
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Green_Party_Drugs.htm
This includes:
"Cannabis/Hemp is to be legalized, regulated and controlled like cigarettes and alcohol. Until this happens we advocate that medical marijuana be made a prescription drug that doctors may prescribe to their patients.
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We call for a revised view of the âdrug problemâ and an end to the âwar on drugs,â recognizing that after over a decade of strident law-and-order posturing, the problems with hard drugs have only worsened.
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We call for expanding drug counseling and treatment for those who need it."
Libertarians on the Drug situation
All drugs should be legal for adults, period.
In reply to Libertarians on the Drug situation by Anonymous (not verified)
Absolutely; no institution
Absolutely; no institution has the right to tell the people what they can and cant take.
In reply to Libertarians on the Drug situation by Anonymous (not verified)
All drugs must be legal period
The Libertarian party is the ONLY party in the US with the moral fortitude to state in unequivocal terms what everyone knows. Prohibition DOES NOT WORK. Never has never will and what is worse, even though our politicians KNOW this they are too cowardly to say "the king has no closes" Obama or McCain there is really no difference on this issue. Only Ron Paul states the obvious and has for years.
The secondary ramifications of this WAR on ourselves is almost too terrible to contemplate and so no one does. Slavery in alive and well in the US, It is called "The war on Drugs" We must end this prohibition and as "Law Enforcement Against prohibition" Leap.cc so well states END THE CRIME PROBLEM IN THE US. It will not end the Drug problem but it will end the crime problem.
Donald Sheldon
Drug War Folly
As I watched President Richard M. Nixon, declare his "war on drugs", many years ago. I was watching with my late mother, who was not a fan of Nixon, at the end of his speech, she got up and on her way back to the kitchen, said, "that dumb SOB, prohibition didn't work the first time, and it won't work now". Over 35 yrs later, she was right. Can't we get past the "prohibitionists"? They will haul out the old saw, "it's about the kids", and we know that by supporting "prohibition" we endanger our kids futures. So it is with great hope that our new president elect, will use "common sense", and not listen to the same old tired crap. But will listen to over 60% of American adults, who want real change. Good Luck to you Mr. President elect, God be with you.
J.D. Lape' Monticello, Ar.
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