“With the global economy collapsing all around us, the last issue President Barack Obama wants to talk about is the ongoing War on Drugs. But if he doesn't -- and fast -- he may well have two collapsed and hemorrhaging countries on his hands. The first lies in the distant mountains of Afghanistan. The second is right next door, on the other side of the Rio Grande.”
Drugs are entering the United States because this is where the money is. Organized crime, street gangs, and some of the richest people in these United States are at the core of those making it possible to buy and sell drugs on your street corner. The dealer is not the person that should be going to jail. He doesn’t launder drug money. He doesn’t finance the operations that use sophisticated methods to get those drugs into the United States – organized crime does that! The street dealer perpetrates street crimes – gangland shootings in your neighborhood. He uses assault rifles, armor piercing bullets, and other illegal weapons to combat our police forces. Assault weapons that NRA lobbies for are the same weapons that are being shipped south of the border in support of drug cartels in Mexico and Columbia in their battle with the respect governments that are trying to stop the flow of illegal drugs through their countries.
The end result of the illegal use of drugs in the United States is increased prostitution, human trafficking, increased crime, and the destruction of the American family. Americans do more drugs that any other country. Our closest competitor is New Zealand. By comparison to countries that have legalized drugs, the United States has more people using cocaine than counties like the Netherlands. Within the United States, Blacks are more likely to use illegal drugs than any other racial group, but when statistics are gauged by age groups, adolescents are the group most likely to use illicit drugs on a daily bases.
Illegal drug usage in the United States is not going to be addressed as a serious issue confronting the security of the United States until its citizenry brings its indignation to the attention of Congress and the legal authorities in a position to make a difference in how we fight the use of illicit drugs. You can help by visiting those sites dedicated to informing the reader of ways to combat the continued use of illegal substances.
In a democracy, silence is not golden; it is condonance in the face of injustices; it is fear, where the thought of reprisal fosters control.
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