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NMPolitics.net - Commentary by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - So far the American War on Drugs has worked exactly like the first prohibition that concerned alcohol. Sadly, the object of our current prohibition, illegal drugs, is even more prevalent now than when the War on Drugs started. Worse, as a nation we have spent billions of dollars making our country into almost a police state without affecting the availably and use of these drugs other than to clog the prisons with drug users and sellers. The tools and sophistication involved in this battle have increased, but the basic premise of the intervention has not. It would seem that we as a country learned nothing from the turbulent years when as a nation we tried to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol.
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Prohibition part two works as well as the original
From NMPolitics.net - Commentary by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - So far the American War on Drugs has worked exactly like the first prohibition that concerned alcohol. Sadly, the object of our current prohibition, illegal drugs, is even more prevalent now than when the War on Drugs started. Worse, as a nation we have spent billions of dollars making our country into almost a police state without affecting the availably and use of these drugs other than to clog the prisons with drug users and sellers. The tools and sophistication involved in this battle have increased, but the basic premise of the intervention has not. It would seem that we as a country learned nothing from the turbulent years when as a nation we tried to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol. Read column
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One MAJOR point: At least Congress recognized that they did NOT have the authority to ban alcohol WITHOUT a constitutional amendment. Somewhere between then and now, they forgot. The entire War on Drugs has been fought unconstitutionally with no amendment giving Congress the authority to ban drugs. That's correct. Congress and the federal government don't have the authority to ban the use or possession of anything. The 18th amendment proves it but the stupid people of the US have rolled over on their backs like a dog while the government has run roughshod over millions of people who are innocent of an legitmate crime.
To top ot off, Congress does not have punishment authority except in 4 areas, counterfeiting, piracies and felonies on the high seas, offenses against the law of nations, and treason. Congress and the feds cannot constitutionally punish for anything else. Read the Constitution. It's there in black and white. Any other interpretation negates the need to have put these three clauses in the Constitution.
But the government never lies to the people.
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