After 45 years, it has been estimated that over $1 trillion was thrown into a pit, covered in gasoline and then lit on fire by the government in the name of War on Drugs, but no matter how much money is put into it nothing will change as long as America lacks the political will to change its failure of a drug policy. In March, even the commander in chief of the War on Drugs admitted he messed up and was walking in circles for the past years. Admitting your mistakes is the first step into actually solving them. According to the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta, the overdose epidemic kills 30,000 Americans per year. That a lot more than how many people die to a shark per year, the most deaths reported by sharks per year is like 10 or something low like that. Our former president Obama has already started making reforms for our failed drug policy. He created the following three policies to help with this change, First, health insurers must now cover drug treatment as a requirement of Obamacare. Second, draconian drug sentences have been scaled back, helping to reduce the number of federal drug prisoners by more than 15 percent. Third, over the screams of prohibitionists in its ranks, the White House is allowing marijuana's march out of the black market, also known as legalization of weed for "medicinal use", it's a start at least and we must start somewhere so Obama's three policies are much better than nothing being done at all and resulting in more money being burned away for this imaginary war.
Friday, January 20, 2017
The Political Will to Change
Why America Can't Quit the Drug War
After 45 years, it has been estimated that over $1 trillion was thrown into a pit, covered in gasoline and then lit on fire by the government in the name of War on Drugs, but no matter how much money is put into it nothing will change as long as America lacks the political will to change its failure of a drug policy. In March, even the commander in chief of the War on Drugs admitted he messed up and was walking in circles for the past years. Admitting your mistakes is the first step into actually solving them. According to the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta, the overdose epidemic kills 30,000 Americans per year. That a lot more than how many people die to a shark per year, the most deaths reported by sharks per year is like 10 or something low like that. Our former president Obama has already started making reforms for our failed drug policy. He created the following three policies to help with this change, First, health insurers must now cover drug treatment as a requirement of Obamacare. Second, draconian drug sentences have been scaled back, helping to reduce the number of federal drug prisoners by more than 15 percent. Third, over the screams of prohibitionists in its ranks, the White House is allowing marijuana's march out of the black market, also known as legalization of weed for "medicinal use", it's a start at least and we must start somewhere so Obama's three policies are much better than nothing being done at all and resulting in more money being burned away for this imaginary war.
After 45 years, it has been estimated that over $1 trillion was thrown into a pit, covered in gasoline and then lit on fire by the government in the name of War on Drugs, but no matter how much money is put into it nothing will change as long as America lacks the political will to change its failure of a drug policy. In March, even the commander in chief of the War on Drugs admitted he messed up and was walking in circles for the past years. Admitting your mistakes is the first step into actually solving them. According to the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta, the overdose epidemic kills 30,000 Americans per year. That a lot more than how many people die to a shark per year, the most deaths reported by sharks per year is like 10 or something low like that. Our former president Obama has already started making reforms for our failed drug policy. He created the following three policies to help with this change, First, health insurers must now cover drug treatment as a requirement of Obamacare. Second, draconian drug sentences have been scaled back, helping to reduce the number of federal drug prisoners by more than 15 percent. Third, over the screams of prohibitionists in its ranks, the White House is allowing marijuana's march out of the black market, also known as legalization of weed for "medicinal use", it's a start at least and we must start somewhere so Obama's three policies are much better than nothing being done at all and resulting in more money being burned away for this imaginary war.
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