Yet another good reason to cut the drug war from our bloated budget: NOLA hurricane victims could make much better use of the money we spend! (Link goes to the Radical Writ)

Ironic in a way, since most of those hit hardest by Katrina were the same demographic hit hardest by the drug war: impoverished blacks.

We can start with those stupid anti-marijuana TV ads that cost taxpayers $120 million a year. You know, the ones that claim that drug users are terrorists, and that smoking marijuana will make you crazy, get you pregnant, and cause you to shoot your neighbor. Give me - and taxpayers - a break! The Republican Study Committee is right to suggest eliminating the program. They’re also right to suggest curtailing recent spending increases on the counter-productive Andean Counter-Drug Initiative (formerly called “Plan Colombia”). Completely eliminating the program, as drug policy reformers and human rights groups recommend, would save $725 million this year alone. I bet Katrina’s victims would be grateful.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 24th, 2005 at 3:13 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.