Don't get me wrong Daima, I'm not arguing many of your points except a couple. It is everyone in this countries responsibility to try to fix the things we believe wrong in our country but there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. When I read in your post about bloodshed it is time to slow up. There is a time and place for revolution when we are living under a totalitarian regime. However, we as a country are nowhere close to that.

Interesting that you put in here about how many of our citizens are in jail. Ties right in with the fact that they constantly have to make room for marijuana offenders so they release murderers and rapists. Ties right into the fact that the prison industry writes the mandatory sentencing laws that our "leaders" sign into law and we have to suffer for. However, if the government would learn to seperate marijuana from the other hard drugs I would mostly go along with their anti-drug efforts. I follow the Singapore route when it comes to crack, meth and heroin. Not because of the damage they do physically; I've seen people huff gasoline for a buzz. I feel that way because, by being physically addictive, they take away peoples freedom of choice. Nobody said drugs were good for you but when we decide to pull our shit together again we should be able to. Once hooked on those most of us lose that choice. I feel that prison sentences should be relatively short doing brutally useless mind numbing work. If you refuse to work then you don't eat and if they starve themselves to death then it's an end to all our problems. I don't work I don't eat either so it seems fair to me. After the third time convicted by a jury of your peers for selling crack, heroin or meth you get hung. I know, it's an extreme position so I usually don't mention it but that is the way I feel. Dealers in those drugs need to know beyond all doubt that society really doesn't appreciate their greed and the lost lives/potential of our citizens.

It seems to me that we need to have a way to replace the LEO jobs lost to the end of prohibition. Why can't they designate drugs for recreational use? Drugs that are mostly non-damaging and non-addictive. Nobody wants to take dangerous, illegal and bathroom chemistry drugs if there is a comparable and safe alternative. The jobs would be created by the regulation of them and it would replace dangerous environments for police with a job focused more on regulatory oversight.

However, the first step is solving what both of us, for all our differing views, see mutually as the main problems. Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug by far. It's physical and societal damage is negligable but the prohibition laws are ruining millions of lives and doing incalculable damage to our rights and freedoms. These laws are causing massive damage to our country and it's past time to end it.

The first step to solving these, in my opinion, are for fine states like Colorado and Nevada to take the lead in making this a safer and better society for all of us. We need to take away LEO's prohibition addiction, at least as far as marijuana is concerned. Just another step on the journey.