"Major Mistake"

"The drug trade will flourish as long as someone wants to buy drugs. There is no way to keep it out completely."
-----Danville, Virginia, Police Department Maj. B.C. Elliot in the February 17, 1995, issue of the Danville Register & Bee

Why will the War on Drugs never succeed? Supply and Demand!

A supply that, in spite of all law enforcement and military efforts, is larger now than at any other time in history.

A demand that, in spite of 81 years of federal legislation, is again on the rise, proving that prohibition is not a deterrent.

In reality, we will never stop this supply. Cocaine – unlike heroin and marijuana – is a schedule 2 drug and is used medicinally throughout the country. The U.S. government is the largest buyer of pure cocaine in the world and obtains it at $35 an ounce! The average black market cost is $100 per gram – $2,800 per ounce – eight times the price of gold!

This in turn creates an overwhelming incentive for crime and corruption. The love of money is the root of all evil!

No matter how righteous our intentions in attempting to keep drugs out of the hands of our children and the self-destructive, the War on Drugs is succeeding to accomplish only the opposite.

In 1992, then drug czar Bob Martinez and a senate judicial committee concluded that "the War on Drugs was a $32 billion failure, victimizing the very people it intended to help."

End this war on humanity!!

February 1995
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