A time to fight

The War on Drugs is a self imposed cancer in this country.

It has and will continue to ravage the poorest neighborhoods, because the only places that can “afford” to fight it are necessarily wealthy.

The money, materials, and people committed to this end have been a mobilization of resources only equaled in times of active war.

When it was attempted against alcohol it was a total failure, because alcohol was already in the community. Trying to tear it away was too costly and it led to too many pains in America’s communities.

The reason the War on Drugs has dodged a similar fate is because modern societies affluence has also geographically isolated its communities.

People are now couch potato generals trying to change the world at the ballot box as though it were a remote control.

As a result, we Americans have sat by while more blood has been shed on our soil than at any point since the Civil War. We have sat by while our home of the free has been turned into the largest police state in the modern world.

And for what?

Higher murder rates than at any point in history? Streets where drugs still flow without difficulty?

A long time ago legislatures, scared of drugs potentially radical impact on their communities built this system. Since then it has been a political tool of theirs. It is the Military-Industrial complex, brought to your neighborhood.

Drug abuse cannot be fought militarily, because it is a health problem.

The Drug War survives because we are too self-centered to stand up for the weak; too insecure to tell it like it is; too weak to see things differently.

REBUILD YOUR COMMUNITY.

END THIS WAR ON DRUGS!