Issue Position: War on Drugs

Issue Position

Issue Position: War on Drugs

America's vaunted "war on drugs" has been a costly and miserable failure. Did we learn nothing from Prohibition? All we have succeeded in doing is to create a huge criminal enterprise that thrives on supplying outlawed drugs, and a huge criminal population for essentially nonviolent crimes.

Education works; eradication and incarceration does not. We have to work on the demand side of this equation and educate people about the destruction that drugs can cause while providing treatment for those who become addicted, not jail cells. We should regulate and tax these drugs, not continue to create an opportunity, an industry and an entire underground economy for major crime.

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