Quote:
|
Originally Posted by levite
While we're at it, I also think that most illegal drugs should be legal, and it should be legal for private citizens to distill "personal-use" amounts of alcohol.
|
The war on drugs is a never ending bottomless money pit for the government. It can never be won and it can never be lost. It can only be continued with the tax payers willfully footing the bill. The only way it ends is if the tax payers decided they are no longer willing to support the so called "war."
According to the DOJ the average length of sentences for drug related offenses is longer then that for violent offenses:
Violent Felonies 63.0 months
Drug Felonies 75.6 months
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/prison.htm
The amount of resources committed to drug prosecution is obscene. I worked parole and probation for many years. The number of times we released a violent offender to save room for a drug offender due to minimum federal sentencing was obscene. When you're releasing a rapist early because you can't release a guy caught growing pot it's hard to go home and hold down your dinner.
I'm not alone with this opinion:
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php