SwBratcher's Posts

The War on Drugs is a failure. Not because it isn't a well meant effort, but because it is a bloated waste of money, energy and resources on an approach that was doomed to fail from the start. Stop handing government the responsibility of protecting us from things that a little local community and family education can just as effectively fight. Don't you get it? We are spending our money on cocaine. I'm not, but 'we' as a collective US consumer is spending money on this drug.

Regulate cocaine and the person who would use it will use something else. Fight physically to stop it at the border and the awaiting consumer dollars make it well worth the effort for the importers to find the easiest way to skirt the regulation. At this point, do you not realize that you, as a government, are fighting against the demand of your citizens to buy a drug that they want? How stupid or self motivated are you to fight that battle? So, part of your population wants what another part doesn't want them to have. Should you take it upon yourselves to spend everyone's money to attempt to stop the fulfillment of that purchase? No.

If you are the federal government, stop trying to protect state citizens from themselves, that isn't your job. Your job is to represent all states as we attempt to protect our freedoms and maintain our safety from invasion and control from international interests. If you represent over half the population in an anti-drug issue, stop infringing on the rights of the rest of the population with laws that are an obstruction of freedoms. Don't condone attempts to forcefully restrict or manipulate desires and behaviors. Instead, turn it back on states and communities to educate and lead by example at the community level so that all may have the life they want.

It is made painfully clear that the federal United States government is willing to overstep its bounds through attempts to enforce it's conflicting laws in California where state law is legalizing marijuana in a loosely regulated medical capacity. This is a state issue and obviously an exercised freedom, voted upon by state citizenry. The federal government needs to stand down and should relinquish control of a huge portion of it daily operations back to the control and interest of the state governments. Period.