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In reply to the discussion: President Obama's puzzling silence on marijuana policy [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)and the govt is wasting money overturning laws that people have voted to enforce.
how is it considered reasonable to claim that there are no economic consequences from the war on drugs?
go look at what Miron has to say about the cost of the drug war. why waste tax dollars on policy that Americans, in the majority, do not want?
why support policy that targets minorities - why did Obama deal with the discrepancies in crack cocaine sentencing? why didn't he just let those racist laws stand...how terrible of him to be in the enviable position to focus on something so minor as racist law, right?
this isn't a topic you can marginalize with such arguments. go read about the costs of the drug war and then tell me it isn't a pig at the trough issue for law enforcement and a way to deny civil rights to huge numbers of minorities.
but that doesn't matter, I guess.