THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR AGAINST LIBERTY

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WAR ON DRUGS IS ENSLAVING THE INNOCENT

"Nicole Richardson was 18-years-old when her boyfriend, Jeff, sold nine grams of LSD to undercover federal agents. She had nothing to do with the sale. There was no reason to believe she was involved in drug dealing in any way.

But then an agent posing as another dealer called and asked to speak with Jeff. Nicole replied that he wasn't home, but gave the man a number where she thought Jeff could be reached... to federal prosecutors, simply giving out a phone number made Nicole Richardson part of a drug dealing conspiracy.

Under draconian mandatory minimum sentences, she was sent to federal prison for ten years without possibility of parole. To pile irony on top of injustice, her boyfriend - who actually knew something about dealing drugs - was able to trade information for a reduced sentence of five years. Precisely because she knew nothing, Nicole had nothing with which to barter."
- Telling the Truth About the War on Drugs

ENSLAVING DRUG USERS

At How Many People Are in Prison?, the following breakdown is offered regarding why U.S. citizens are in prison:

* Drug Offenses 59.6%
* Robbery 9.8%
* Property Offenses 5.5%
* Extortion, Fraud, Bribery 6.8%
* Violent Offenses 2.7%
* Firearms, Explosives, Arson 8.6%
* White Collar 1.0%
* Immigration 2.8%
* Courts or Corrections 0.8%
* National Security 0.1%
* Continuing Criminal Enterprise 0.8%
* Miscellaneous 1.5%

We're not condoning drug use. We're merely pointing out how many people are in prison who brought no harm to others through murder, rape, or stealing.

Shouldn't prison be reserved for those committing violence against others, rather than those who are allowing harmful substances into their own bodies? What if there was a law for enslaving every American caught getting drunk on the weekend?
PRISON CULTURE

"Almost one-half million Americans are in prison for drugs-only offenses. Many of them are innocent or were encouraged by federal agents or informers posing as friends to transport small amounts of drugs as a favor.

Most government informants are real criminals who escape charges or are given lenient plea bargains in exchange for helping prosecutors boost their conviction rates by entrapping innocent people. It is a disgrace to the U.S. legal system that judges permit such false convictions.

Many other innocents are in jail because police dropped small packets of drugs - or in the Texas cases bags of ground up wallboard - into their cars when stopped, allegedly for traffic offenses.

With a legal system that mass-produces criminals, prisons are being constructed at a breathtaking rate. A number of states now have prisons in almost one-third of their counties. Florida has at least one prison in 78% of its counties! In 1923 there were only 61 prisons in the entire U.S."
- A Prison State, If Not a Police State

Still think that fixing the war on drugs is the action to take? No, recognizing the falsehoods and lies regarding the whole thing is what we all need to be focusing on.