The only ones benefitting from this WAR ON DRUGS are the private prison industries and their stockholders. Far too many innocent lives have been lost. Citizens mistrust of law enforcement is at an all time high. No one should have to live in fear of those who have been charged with serving and protecting American citizens. Yet, in this land of the "free", where our love ones have fought and died on foreign soil to "protect our freedoms" and so that others can have the "freedoms" we Americans hold so "near" and "dear", Americans are being constantly forced to live in fear. End the drug war! End the drug war! From small children to 90+ year old ladies trying to live out their final days in peace, to the family pet and even those bursting down American doors with *no knock* warrnts & *knock and announce* warrants, there's been far too many innocen lives lost. Far too much collateral damage. And the irony of it all is, you'll find the heaviest substance abusers, alcoholics, drug abusers are the very ones arresting American citizens for the very same things they are committing. If there was ever a waste of taxpayers money, the so called WAR ON DRUGS is it. Stop this senseless "war." Stop killing fellow AMERICANS in these senseless raids, that have left mothers and fathers without sons and daughters. Children without either one or both of their parents. Stop this invasiong and occupying of America! Stop this senseless "WAR" on fellow Americans!!

Yet another law enforcement officer dies while attempting to uphold a failed public policy that has triggered the worst crime wave in history. Yet another law enforcement officer dies while attempting to prevent a citizen of this 'once proud and free' nation from choosing to self-medicate with one of God's most amazing plants. Yet another law enforcement officer dies in order that unconscionable Transnational Corporations, and their Media Enablers, can continue to abuse, addict and poison us for obscene profits. According to the CATO Institute, ending prohibition would save roughly $41 billion of expenditure while generating an estimated $46 billion in tax revenues. Prohibition has helped fill our Prisons and Jails to capacity. Violent criminals, murderers, rapists and child molesters are released early to create space for so called 'drug offenders'. Half of court trial time and also a huge chunk of police officers time is pointlessly wasted. Enormous untaxed profits from illegal drugs fund multi-national criminal empires which bribe law enforcement authorities and spread corruption faster than a raging bush fire. Prohibition takes violent criminals and turns them into multi-billionaires whilst corrupting even entire countries, including our own. Our drug laws are also funding the Taliban and al-Qaeda whose illegal opium profits allow them to buy weapons and pay it's fighters more than $300 a month, compared with the $14 paid to an Afghan policemen. Maybe many of the early Prohibitionists did not really intend to kill hundreds of thousands worldwide, or put 1 in every 30 American adults under supervision of the correctional system. But similar to our "Great Experiment" of the 1920s, the prohibition of various other drugs has once again spawned rampant off-the-scale criminality & corruption, a bust economy, mass unemployment, a mind-boggling incarceration rate and a civil war in Mexico.