Colin Amoth
“The ‘War on Drugs’ is a disastrous policy that achieves none of its aims and inflicts huge damage on global security and governance wherever it is prosecuted.”
This has now become the voice of many elder statesmen, senior law enforcement officers, intellectuals, and philanthropists all over the globe.
Now places such as Vancouver B.C., Ciudad Juarez, and The Helmand Province in Afghanistan are speaking out for the end of what they believe to be a horrible waste of government money, the prohibition of narcotics. There arguments include that a government-regulated market would bring in huge tax revenues and would take them out of the hands of not-so-friendly suppliers such as the mafia or gangs.
Even in the United States organizations such as LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) are speaking up the war on drugs. They state that they don’t like the idea of putting millions of dollars into the hands of dangerous drug cartels and the even Taliban.
Yes, even the Taliban is profiting from the prohibition. One of their main sources of funding is the dealing and selling of opium products, which now has an inflated cost thanks to the war on drugs.
