Cannabis Rose

Let me take you back in time to the 1920s. Some of you may recognize this decade that the prohibition. " On January 19, 1919, the eighteenth amendment (widely acknowledged as the Ban Amendment) of the Constitution was ratified, which reads as follows:

1. After one year after the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof, or export from the United States and all territory subject to jurisdiction for purposes of liquor is prohibited.

2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

3. This article shall be inoperative unless it is ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of submission to the States by Congress.

As a direct consequence of the eighteenth amendment, America began to notice some very disturbing problems: problems such as gang violence, police corruption, and a whole new spin on the black market. People began to gin bathtub, "which, because of impurities, many wounded and killed. Men like Al Capone came to power, which gave birth smuggling operations that have cost the lives of thousands of Americans.

Clubs called Speakeasy, which were the clubs of alcohol in secret places hidden detainees, have been established. As these clubs have been dispersed by the power of the police force, people have been arrested, shot, and held on behalf of the law "."

As these problems have increased over the years, many have begun to see the inefficiency of the eighteenth amendment, and realize the harm he was causing the country, and less than 15 years later the amendment was repealed by Amendment 21.

The point here is that in this case, the prohibition did not work, in fact, it was a terrible failure that has cost billions of U.S. dollars, has brought the crime rate to escalate exponentially, and destroyed thousands of American lives, while failing to significantly reduce the availability or consumption of alcohol. In addition, the prisons overcrowded and deteriorated state of American law.

As the war on alcohol in the 1920s, as the war against drugs today.

The phrase "war on drugs" should have been a metaphor - as the fight against poverty, a battle just as important as the "war" many complain is forgotten in the wake of the war against terrorism. In fact, I think we would probably be winning, or at least significant progress in the fight against poverty if we removed the annual budget of 20 billion dollars for the war against drugs and gave it to programs that help those in need. I suppose the question must be asked: Is it really more important to scare children away from the pot to make sure they get enough to eat?

The war against drugs as a whole fails entirely to its intended purpose. Instead of reducing the availability of street drugs, it just creates a thriving black market, where many of the same problems in the 1920s exist today. police corruption, gang violence, and deaths and injuries caused by drugs or lethal impure mixtures are more common today than they ever were.

The availability of these drugs has not been reduced. Anyone with the desire to do so can obtain drugs in the street without too much difficulty. We still have much to learn from prohibition of alcohol.

The truth is that drugs are everywhere. Anyone in this country who wants drugs can get them - even people we continue to grow in our overcrowded prisons more. We have the advantages against the disadvantages of this war on drugs.

Another important point I would make is this: The prohibition of alcohol required l. Specialty