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The Future Of Drug Legalization
"We are making remarkable momentum with respect to changing the marijuana laws," says Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on drugs. The only way to move forward on marijuana legalization is for states to start taking risks by abandoning prohibition laws and setting up the conflict with the feds
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American drug policy is, from start to finish, a system of laws enacted and enforced for the sole purpose of protecting and furthering the careers of lawmakers and law enforcers by destroying the lives of the people they are elected to serve and sworn to protect. Ethan Nadelman, an obviously intelligent, well educated person, wants us to believe that evil of this magnitude can be "reformed," and that there is some reason to do so.
This insane, illegal, immoral war is being waged against ALL Americans, not just marijuana users. You don't end a war by degrees. Either we're free, or we're not.