George, history's lesson is clear. For all its bluster and brazen rhetoric, America is inherently tied to the propensity of human beings to take risk, a persistent and necessary trait of human nature. George, illegal drugs are purely a matter of business, a way for the oppressed and disenfranchised to pursue the American Dream. George, let us rise above the extreme rhetoric of hate, fear, and intolerance and begin to explore alternatives to our current policy of mass incarceration. George, nothing is more destructive of respect for our government and its laws than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
War is based on deception.
George, the drug war has clearly become a major social, economic, and legal phenomenon that directly involves millions of individuals. Yet, the issues of drug use remain shrouded in confusion, misinformation, and fear, perpetuating a flawed approach that was adopted more than 60 years ago, resulting in the continuing waste of resources and lives. George, the drug war is not justice, it's a stage created for judges, lawyers, district attorneys and politicians. It's an act, a play in which real people are condemned to hell. George, the drug war is a retarded response to a process of supply and demand gone amok, an insatiable machine into which the influential monied class with political smoke fed defenseless, disenfranchised blacks, meskins, hispanics, and poor Americans into the ever expanding corporate prison complex.