Phineas Worthington
2008-03-12 07:06:42
Didn’t see the show. Don’t watch much boob tube.
However, something is wrong with our punishment priorities when non-violent drug users spend more time in jail than child molesters and rapists.
With the increased prohibitions on the use of the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol, the drug war looks more like a ‘foolish consistency’ than a sound policy.
Prohibition didn’t work then and it isn’t working now. Many of the same problems with the alcohol underground economy of gangs and violence now exist with the underground drug economy.
The organization LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, has offered a policy compromise. Though theirs is a socialist solution.
