Yes, I Am Opposed to the War on Drugs
Are you in favor of drugs?
This is something every Libertarian get asked at every campaign event.
As a matter of fact, I am. But not because I have any desire to use them. Unlike our current and probably last three Presidents, in my 45 years, I have never taken, nor had the desire to put into my body in any way, any illegal drug. Go ahead test me. Ask my college roommates.
All that said, I am against the war on drugs. Why? Easy read the quote below.
Neill Franklin once led such raids. The 33-year Maryland police veteran, now executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (www.leap.cc), locked up hundreds of people for drugs and felt good about it.
“We really thought that these drugs made people evil,” he told me.
But 10 years ago Franklin decided that drugs—even hard drugs—do much less harm to Americans than does the drug war.
“Drugs can be—and are in many cases—problematic. But the policies that we have in place to prohibit their use are 10 times more problematic.”