U.S. SHOULD SURRENDER IN WAR ON DRUGS

The United States of America is under the impression that we can
control the entire world or at least North America. Mexico's
Presidente Vicente Fox was set to sign a bill decriminalizing the
personal use and possession of illegal drugs. The U.S. Embassy
spokeswoman, Judith Bryan, says that the U.S. doesn't want American
tourists to go to Mexico to use illegal drugs.

Mexico was about to make an important step in the war on drugs. They
were about to face the true facts of this unjust and unnecessary war:
that by prohibiting the use of anything you create more crime than
you reduce. Just look the prohibition of alcohol.

Each year it costs every tax-paying American more to fund the DEA to
stop these drugs, even though they can't. And it costs more for us to
incarcerate those non-violent offenders in our jails and prisons. If
you want to start saving money in these areas, you need to think why
you think that this person is a criminal.

California has allowed its constituents the right to do with their
own body as they please along with 11 other states, at least not
forcing them to be incarcerated and only paying a fine. But Mexico is
not allowed to do this, because it would let the world know that
infallible America was wrong. It's been working in Amsterdam for years.

Heath Hancock

Rock Island