End Cannabis Prohibition -- YouCut
This is my entry for YouCut, a project of Majority Leader Eric Cantor where online users can submit entries to cut the federal budget and vote for a different plan each week. No delusions here, the chances are slim that my submission will make it on a ballot but I firmly believe that cutting the bloated federal drug war bureaucracy should be debated fully. Is there any guarantee the Republicans will take any of these "winning" suggestions to heart and actually implement them in the next budget? Not at all, but at least they're testing the waters.
I figured a solid critique of cannabis prohibition would fit nicely next to terminating tax-payer funds for NPR and prohibiting sleeper car subsidies on Amtrak.
End Cannabis Prohibition.
Since 1970, the war on drugs has wasted over $1 trillion and failed to stem the supply or demand for drugs in the US. Prohibition-related gang violence claims thousands of lives every year in the US and Mexico that cannabis could never inflict. Over 5000 years of human experimentation with cannabis, not a single person has died from its ingestion. There is no scientifically-determined lethal dose. Reduce the bloated drug war bureaucracy by cutting $15 billion in federal expenses, $33 billion in the states. Allow the market to create new industries (taxed and legal) to sustain more jobs for more Americans. Allow farmers to grow industrial hemp, an extremely versatile crop that can be used for clothing, food and a clean-burning renewable fuel. Restore personal freedom and ensure individual rights for all citizens; a free society demands it.
Feel free to submit your own idea for cutting the federal budget; if you share my sentiments on ending the disastrous war on cannabis, submit yours with the first line: end cannabis prohibition. Even copy and paste mine if you'd like, the more submissions to cut drug war funding will increase our the chances of an online vote!
http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/YourIdea.htm
I figured a solid critique of cannabis prohibition would fit nicely next to terminating tax-payer funds for NPR and prohibiting sleeper car subsidies on Amtrak.
End Cannabis Prohibition.
Since 1970, the war on drugs has wasted over $1 trillion and failed to stem the supply or demand for drugs in the US. Prohibition-related gang violence claims thousands of lives every year in the US and Mexico that cannabis could never inflict. Over 5000 years of human experimentation with cannabis, not a single person has died from its ingestion. There is no scientifically-determined lethal dose. Reduce the bloated drug war bureaucracy by cutting $15 billion in federal expenses, $33 billion in the states. Allow the market to create new industries (taxed and legal) to sustain more jobs for more Americans. Allow farmers to grow industrial hemp, an extremely versatile crop that can be used for clothing, food and a clean-burning renewable fuel. Restore personal freedom and ensure individual rights for all citizens; a free society demands it.
Feel free to submit your own idea for cutting the federal budget; if you share my sentiments on ending the disastrous war on cannabis, submit yours with the first line: end cannabis prohibition. Even copy and paste mine if you'd like, the more submissions to cut drug war funding will increase our the chances of an online vote!
http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/YourIdea.htm
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