DRUGS ARE GOOD!

The American people love drugs, all kinds of drugs. Recent polls indicate
that a majority of US citizens have used some form of illegal
drugs. Whether that's marijuana, cocaine, heroin or LSD or if it's using
someone else's pain pills or muscle relaxers, it's all illegal, subject to
the same provisions of the laughingly named "Controlled Substances Act."

Marijuana use as sacrament, for health or for just plain relaxing and fun
is a federal crime, subject to sentences that can range to the penalty of
death if your thumb is too green. We must remember, that in its 8,000-year
history, marijuana has never killed anyone. Use of coca or opium products
from the horribly inept black market, is responsible for less than 10% of
the number killed each year by bumbling pharmacists at Eckerd's and Walgreen's.

Whether it's for enlightenment, medicine or just plain fun, the societal
effects of all the drugs taken, that are on the "forbidden list" are
miniscule in comparison to the harms inflicted on our society by
terrorists, street gangs, corrupt public officials, tainted drugs, the
inflated prices of the black market, and most important of all is to
recognize that drug prohibition gives easy access to drugs for our children.

Public safety is jeopardized because we mandate that our law enforcement
community focus their attentions on drug users, sellers and
traffickers. We waste millions of man years looking under car seats, under
dashboards and in trunks, searching for the mother load of dope that brings
a rise in rank, a fatter paycheck and career stature to an otherwise
thoroughly distracted policeman.

When we finally end this drug war, we will immediately reap huge financial
rewards as well. The $50 billion squandered each year could be used for
health, education, roads and bridges. With a small tax on these drugs, we
could rake in billions instead of constantly opening our wallets for more
prisons, more welfare and the destruction of millions of families every
year. over the contents of a baggie.

Fear, huge, looming, hulking FEAR runs the drug war. Stop, educate
yourself, and get out from under the bed or the dark closet you hide
in. There is not one iota of truth, not one speck of logic and not one
valid, justifiable reason for this drug war to continue. Since no
authority can stand and defend this policy I urge you to pick up this
readily available information and stand forth against those who would cage
generations of your family, not for the use of powders, pills and plant
extracts, but simply because you allow them to do so, "because they could."

The people know the truth, even the politicians, pundits and doctors
know. The problem lies in the law enforcement community, whether that's
the patrolman on the beat or the district attorneys focus, the financial
machinations and requirements of the probation officer or the need of
treatment providers to fill their beds, it's the "authority" and bully
pulpit of those who benefit the most from this drug war, that continually
pervert the truth so as to perpetuate this madness (and make that mortgage
payment.)

I stand the heat, 24/7 and though it now seems a sure way to the poorhouse
because nobody will hire an individual with a Goggle search-result like
mine, otherwise there are no roadblocks in place. The only fear we have to
fear is that you may have permanently lost your nerve and that you wind up
doing nothing to stop this madness of drug war, of war on terror. Do
nothing and some day they WILL come for you.

Like the Soviet Empire, which necessarily and continually had to rewrite
their five-year plans to show exaggerated success, so too do each newly
elected batch of politicians ask us to believe they finally have the
solution. Just a few more years, (trust them) and they'll stop the black
market.

How high the harvest warden? 2.1 million, and rising!

To learn more, please visit these sites: www.cultural-baggage.com,
www.mpp.org, www.mapinc.org, www.drugwarfacts.org, www.drugpolicy.org,
www.norml.org or for a laugh, visit: www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov. Please
listen to the 4:20 Drug War NEWS each afternoon and to Cultural Baggage,
"the Unvarnished Truth about the Drug War" on KPFT radio, 90.1 FM or online
at www.kpft.org each Tuesday at 6:30 PM, CDT. You'll hear judges and
congressmen, police and prisoners speaking of the need for drug reform.