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A Response to William J. Bennett The drug war, or also known as drug prohibition, is without a doubt socially devastating in the United States. The U.S. government’s drug control budget for 2002 was over 18 billion dollars, which came from some public housing and immigrant assistance. The known facts of our current drug policy are blatant, the drug war strengthens jail size, police, military (in foreign countries), and an abundance of organized crime. These facts along with its furthering of demoralizing as well as out casting poor black, and brown people, condemns hundreds of thousands to jail who should pose no threat to our society. The drug war also contributes to the financing of illegal paramilitary groups linked to U.S. foreign-policy objectives. The presence of all these well documented things listed above, along with the corrupt police and judicial systems that plague our states, cities, and less fortunate foreign neighbors, by these drug traffickers has eroded the legitimacy of our current drug war. Bennett seems to grossly underestimate the power of new ideas which is unfortunate seeing as he was once the U.S. Secretary of Education one would like to think he knows the invaluable importance of education, but seems very uneducated in the lifestyles, struggles, fears, and mindset of the past and future peoples that he had the opportunity to aid. Legalization is a step toward a better future, a future with open ideas by people who have a clearer vision for humanity and education through experience, people like me, George Soros, and maybe even you. In a little-noticed passage of his autobiography, George Soros (multi-million dollar funder of legalization bills and movements in many states) says that if it were up to him, "I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available [emphasis added]. Initially, I would keep prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was attained I would keep raising the prices, very much like the excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime. I would use a portion of the income for prevention and treatment.
Approximate Word count = 1430
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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