""Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth."
--Will Rogers
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Editor's Note: In the 3rd of the Populist Party's "Ten Planks" we take an unwavering stance in support of self-ownership. Thus, as the commentary below states, the war on drugs is repugnant to our ideals of a free society. What do you think? Please stop by the blog to let us know.
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The War on Drugs is a War on You
by Michael Boldin
The drug war is based on a repugnant assertion: that you do not have ownership over your own body; that you don't have the right to decide what you'll do with your body, with your property and with your life. The position of the drug warriors is that you should be in jail if you decide to do something with your body that they don't approve of.
This is an abomination of everything that America is supposed to stand for. As long as this country continues the drug war, you are not free. At the root, then, those that force the drug war on you are enemies to your freedom.
If you are concerned at all about liberty, the economy, the Constitution and the power of the Federal Government - you cannot ignore the US government's longest and most costly "war" - the War on Drugs.
But no matter how long it lasts, how much is costs, how many lives are disrupted, and how much it fails - the war rages on.
Why? Well, because Federal "authorities" don't care what your local laws are, they don't care what your personal choices are, and they don't care what reason you have for your choices.
All they care about is their own power. Period
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(full article) (comment on the blog)
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