Candidate For Florida Governor Who's Actually Done Things, Supports Legalization

http://www.michaelearth.org/drugs.html
Here I am handing over a crack pipe to the police. I won a battle in my personal war on drugs in “Cracktown” by pushing out the local dealers and cleaning up the neighborhood, but the drug activity just moved elsewhere. The obvious solution to the problem – taxing and regulating drugs just like alcohol and tobacco – is the elephant in the room that no politician wants to discuss.
Last year, over 6,000 people were killed in the Mexican Drug War, which is now being fueled by a grant of $500 million by American taxpayers, thousands of guns streaming south courtesy of American gun dealers, and billions of dollars in illegal drug revenue from American consumers. The Mexican Drug War, which joins the ongoing American Drug War, now operates in over 200 American cities, including all major Florida cities.

Florida's lengthly shoreline, its 14 seaports, 131 airports, excellent highway system, and its proximity to the tropics makes it a magnet for tourists. It also attracts Mexican, Columbian, Dominican, Jamaican, and other foreign drug trafficking organizations that bring illegal drugs into the state. Hundreds of local gangs distribute what is brought in and their infighting contributes to the high rate of violent crime in Florida.

The law enforcement approach will never accomplish more than moving the problem around. The most lethal drugs – alcohol and tobacco – are already legal, and alcohol Prohibition spawned the same scourge of soaring incarceration and violent crime rates in the 1920s that we are experiencing today.


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