In a Senate hearing Wednesday, a bipartisan group of senators, including Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, explored alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders. On the Web, the drug war is one of those odd issues where traditional party labels do not hold, where libertarianism seems to transcend standard partisan definitions. Politicians use it to get re-elected. It is going to take a two-term President to try to stop it. This escalation that has been going on for 20 years is not the answer.
Drug use is at an all time high, and it's time that the failing policy is changed.
The only thing it has accomplished, is creating a welfare system for police. I believe all drugs should be legalized and sold only to adults. Kids have easier access to drugs than they do alcohol, as you can get drugs in almost every school in the nation. Legalizing drugs would take them out of the drug dealers hands and put them into a controlled distribution system. Taking drugs away from drug dealers would also bring the black market to its knees.