A Call To Sensibilty: Time To Decriminalize Marijuana

A Call To Sensibilty: Time To Decriminalize Marijuana

A Call To Sensibility:   Time To Decriminalize Marijuana
In the United States there needs to be a call to sensibility regarding the war on drugs. The United States has been engaged in a war on drugs since the early 1970's.   The annual cost of waging this war has become unsustainable and is diminishing the coffers of the American people. The American Government would be wise to consider legalizing and taxing this multibillion dollar industry and applying the money to rebuilding infrastructure. With the ease of importation, the large amount of money that has been spent on over the last four decades, the amount spent on incarceration and lost productivity of our citizens, there can be no argument that the status of marijuana should be reviewed and changed.   The American Government should decriminalize the distribution, possession, and the usage of marijuana.  

A large contingent of federal, state, and local government resources are focused on deterring the importation and distribution of drugs.   Among them, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Border Patrol, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, assets of the United States Military, and the Justice Department.   The list grows more substantially as it reaches down to the state and local governments devoted to combating the War on Drugs.   The difficulty in making a sustained reduction in the distribution of marijuana and other drugs is directly related to the ingenuity of the Drug Cartels and the foreign governments who derive large sums of money from the sale of drugs grown and harvested in their countries.   Despite vast resources devoted to stopping the importation of these drugs, the efforts of the drug enforcement agencies is the equivalent of sticking a finger into a leaking damn.   Every successful effort at stopping the importation of a drug shipment results in the drug runners applying lessons learned to make their next shipment less prone to interception.   It is through this learning...