I find it disturbing how the drug war just creates more violence than peace, like it was planned to do. I have personally been on the front lines of the drug war, and from experience can say that it is most deffanintly causing more trouble than it is worth, which is in the billions. I came across this blog which is very interesting.

When drug users overdose from tainted drugs, it is the result of prohibition. When they die from overdoses because they were afraid to seek help, it is the result of prohibition.

Increasingly, people are dying because of the tactics of the drug war. Military operations are being conducted on our soil, and collateral damage is inevitable.

It is unbelievable how many completely innocent people are injured and killed in this ridiculous “war” that is waged against our families and friends, not terrorists.

Rudy was a father of five who was passing by a house targeted by narcotics officers attempting to serve a parole violation warrant and the police mistakenly thought he was the one they were there to arrest. They chased Cardenas, and he fled, apparently afraid of them (they were not uniformed). Cardenas was shot multiple times in the back.

Dorothy Duckett, 78, told the Mercury News she looked out her fifth-floor window after hearing one gunshot and saw Cardenas pleading for his life. “I watched him running with his hands in the air. He kept saying, ‘Don’t shoot. Don’t shoot,’” Duckett said. “He had absolutely nothing in his hands.”

There must be an end to this deadly war, we must find another way to deal with drug use and abuse than hunting people down and killing them, or throwing them behind bars for selling or doing a few lines of coke.