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the global commission on drug policy at released its report
and by the way the commission is made up of former leaders from various different
countries right
and at their basically recommending that the united states and mexico
decriminalizing tracks they say that the war on drugs is failing other wasting
their precious resources on it
tens of thousands of people are dying because of uh... the war on drugs we
need to stop it
the white house looked at that report was that
uh... of paul
or stamp artifact bay and
release these rediculous statistics on how the whole world drugs actually been
successful uh... and i think that's what i had a drug use has decreased since the
seventies i dot e aata why do you focus on the fifteen thousand people in mexico
that died last year because of this one right in the thirty five to forty
thousand that have died since uh... calderone declared war on drugs in two
thousand six
analytics for people on the commission so you're saying why that's important
uh... former u_n_ secretary general kofi annan uh... republican uh...
popped out of member to reagan and nixon
george shultz which i was surprised by the that use on the commission
paul volcker former head of the federal reserve
of former president of mexico brazil and colombia
and uh... current prime minister of greece
i mean this was an
all-star commission and their report whiskey that
let me read you one quote from it
qu political leaders and public figures
should have the courage to articulate publicly
what many of them and all of privately
that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressor strategies
will not solve the drug problem
and that the war on drugs
has not
and not
you want
that is really strong language it isn't language and i'm proud of them for
releasing the study
however several of these people world leaders and while they were leaders
while they were presidents date did not state these facts okay they did not say
that they were against the war on drugs in fact they supported it especially
ernesto zedillo sergio what which is the president of mexico ok then if you think
that these were on drugs is bs then why didn't you state that when you were the
president of mexico i'll tell you what because political suicide for that right
in their minds at ease no heat for in the united states that's how we perceive
it right and i think they're wrong but i certainly have we perceive it
in other countries
i don't think anything it's political suicide forward in their own elections
although that's certainly a factor right
but the more important factor is united states money
if you go along with the united states to get a lot of money
if u_p_s_ pasted to the president
columbia formats
to fight the war on drugs
if you don't go along with the united states you're in a world of trouble
dot monies in the account
other money to be a cut-off you don't mess with the u_s_ and that's a lot of
people in this report said in people outside of the report in the in the
united kingdom a lot of people are joining in
uh... some you know
staying and being judi densch in richard branson
sexy partners commission of courses
uh... if it was to stay ahead of aversion etcetera
and they're all saying
look the u_s_'s part of a huge problem
if they want change their laws not averse to change our laws
so a lot of these guys are stuck in that way and uh... now listen to the numbers
for quick right the u_n_ estimates that
opiate use
uh... between
and ninety-eight because in
went up thirty four have person
we're winning the war on drugs so that ten-year period that latest evidence we
have
up thirty four to five percent overuse cocaine use up twenty seven percent
marijuana use up eight and a half percent
doesn't look like we're winning anybody anybody buehler
we're not what you were with us
worldwide two hundred fifty million people are using a legal
narcotics
worldwide two hundred fifty million people it's it's failing were wasting
our resources on his yes
craze gang violence
uh... it creates uh... their culture
uh... where we prisons so many people
uh... twenty five percent of people in prison the united states for for drug
offenses it costs seventeen billion dollars a year extra
to imprison most people
and then
uh... of course are you always met with by government officials is off
drugs is so terrible if you will utilize a obviously there would be more truck
though it's i hate that argument department for a number of different
first uh...
i don't use drugs now right
if they legalized drugs i'm not gonna shoot apparently because i have no
interest in ok and why do i have no interest in it because i'm educated on
how destructive it is in my body now did we ban cigarettes no we didn't ban
cigarettes when we do week educated the public on how harmful they are
and that's a great use has decreased tremendously
so why can't we use the same type is types of campaigns on i'll you know the
drugs that are legal now like heroin cocaine all that stuff
you know it's like you read that what i wrote for my msnbc's
as i did this story on their today of course that the being that format it was
incredibly quick
and we didn't have time to fit in the smoking pot but that's exactly what i
wrote
and so i agree with you there but my main point is it isn't true
drug use does not go up when you legalize in fact
in the experience of portugal annapolis it goes down when portugal legalized
they they drug usage went down in the netherlands in two thousand one at a
legalized even harwich if our politicians and make their heads export
although i doubt it that way
and a lot of prescriptions for heroin
hoping magic you straight
and guess what happened
says then the estimated number of people who depend on heroin in l_a_'s went
dalam
from thirty thousand alway down a eighteen thousand
nearly cut in half
for it was legalize day
we gotta stop this prohibition on drugs
doesn't work it makes the situation worse and it creates the side problems
that are actually even bigger which is the gangs in the vial
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