I live in such a changed world, I sometimes feel I am living on a foreign planet!
Things
that distress me are the “war on drugs”. What an awful term! “War”!
When I was young, there was no such war – and like all wars, it has NOT
made the world a better place.
Drug
barons and drug lords have been made rich and powerful by it. Drugs
have become so illicit, we have made them priceless and traffickers
protect them with guns. The underworld has become vast! The misery
is unimaginable but not from “using”.
I
have just watched the TV documentary Unreported World about the violence in Trinidad and Tobago. One could say this stems directly from
our “War on Drugs”.
These
islands are right near South America and they are where the trade
passes on drugs on their way to us. Traffickers dump their guns and
excess “stock” on the locals. Life there is unimaginable to us.
Surely
after all these years of total non-success, logical, scientifically
minded people, would admit it's a “war” that is NOT working!
Despite
all the gobbledegook I have heard that legalising drugs would not work -
why don’t we try it? What COULD be worse than the dismal failure of
making drugs the most precious commodity in the world?
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