WHY WASTE MONEY ON THE DRUG WAR?

The nation's drug czar, John Walters, has announced the start of his
new 25 cities initiative to help combat the nation's drug problem at
the local level. Does he really think going to the 25 largest cities
in the United States is going to help solve the problems at local levels?

What kind of plan is this? It is another failed plan, another waste of
our tax dollars - a chance for him to sugarcoat the drug war. This
30-year war has not decreased supply or demand. It is a wasteful,
counterproductive, government jobs program that creates the crime it
claims to protect us from while tramping on the Bill of Rights in the
process.

The countries that have legalized, regulated or have decriminalized
marijuana are not in a state of anarchy. Why does the U.S. government
keep insisting we fight this war?

Charles Byrnes, Taylor Mill