The war against drugs has been an on going event for a very long time. Billions upon billions have been dumped into this effort to stop major drug suppliers from getting their “deadly” product onto the streets and into the hands of the people that use them.
I dont understand how a war that has gottne no where since it started is still being funded while we are currently pushing billions into the war on terrorism. If America wants to fight a war that is worth fighting, they shoud leave the drug war alone and pay more attention to the war over seas.
Fighting against drugs(the people who buy use and seel them) is a very stupid attempt at stopping people from doing what they want. It does not matter how much the law tries to keep drugs from affecting our population, they have been here since the beggining of time and will continue to be here until the end. OUr gervnerment can keep on trying to stop it, and yes they make a lot of problems for the people at the top, and the people all the way at the bottom of the chain, but no matter what these people will always be here.
The only theing that will end people dealing drugs is legalization, but considering that will probably not happen soon i doubt that big time sellers are going to change their ways.
The drug market is just like any outher market. There is the product, the seller, and the buyer. People who sell drugs are just like a person who decides to sell cars or furniture. The seller finds something that people need, and then the seller exposes that need and uses it to make money. The only difference is that the drug dealer is breaking the law.
The government is doing their job, i understand that, but the motives behind it all bother me. i understand getting a killer, or rappeist off the street. That is all i would wish for, is to keep all violent offenders behind bars, but treating someone who just sells drugs. Im not even counting those who hurt others to gain more in their life of crime. Just a drug dealer, someone trying to make a living. I dont understand how the law can give someone on a first offense of selling a kilo of coke 15 years, more than a rappeist. There is no lesson behind that. Its basically saying that someone who has possession of a drug is more dangerous than a person who would violae a person in the worst way.
It all comes down to one thing, money. I dont care how many people say that is a lie, its the truth. When a drug dealer is on the streets making a few thousand a night, the government makes no profit off of it. thats why drug dealers must go through long prison sentences. The goverenment makes money back for each day that dealer is locked up. Plus the law has the right to charge tax on whatever you were selling.
If the law is about makeing people relize that what they did is wrong. But the people that do deserve a 15 year sentence get 12 months to less than a year. And the people moving drugs get years and years for doing something that may be against the law, but is not hurting or killing people.