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President Bush signs 465 million drug law

getbud.com — President Bush Signs the Merida Initiative Into Law You can read the President ’s remarks about the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008, which includes funding for the Merida Initiative here.

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  • yellowcakewalk, on 07/01/2008, -2/+20The War on Drugs is an excellent way to line the pockets of the drug-war profiteers and to keep a military presence in the last USA puppet regime in Latin America.
    • Minarchian, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8You betcha!

      The Prison Industrial Complex and foreign Governments lined a lot of pockets for this piece of ***** legislation.
    • zorpscorp, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2"It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times."
      - Bill Hicks
  • akpwnz, on 07/01/2008, -1/+20"War on Drugs" biggest joke ever.
    • siszam, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1I saw on the news that our county won't have summer school this year because they their isn't enough money in the budget. We don't have have enough firefighters to fight the cali fires so they are talking about teaching the national guard to fight fires. Too bad Republicans can't find profit in education and services for Americans.
    • greenroom628, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1yep, just like the war on terror.
  • jflowers45, on 07/01/2008, -3/+4I agree that there are plenty of issues with the War on Drugs, but what is the answer? I am not sure straight up legalization will help
    • bstory, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7Of course it would help - it would take the big profits out of it. The people who run the better businesses rather than the ones willing to do the most violence, would be in control.
    • ATLien74, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2People are going to do drugs whether they are legal or not. Why spend the billions of dollars fighting something you can't win? Or maybe you can, but not the way it has been fought for the past 35 years. Instead of spending all that money, time, and resources on locking people up, spend that money on educating people HONESTLY about what the different drugs do to you. Let the responsible adults make their own decisions, and they can face the consequences of their own actions.

      I honestly believe if drugs were legal, at first there would be a surge of people doing drugs because it's finally legal....like a celebration of freedom. Then it would taper off. It wouldn't be as cool anymore. It would become...boring for the majority of people. Sure you'd have your junkies and addicts, but you'll always have those whether it's legal or not. If someone wants help to get clean, those drug war resources would be better spent on rehab than just locking users up with real criminals and forgetting about them. The people that don't want help, well, what can you do? Nothing really, so why lock them up? It doesn't help, and they don't want help anyways.
    • thechr0nic, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1look to alcohol prohibition for a great example of how legalization works.

      organized crime - read al Capone, the Kennedy family among others, made fortunes bootlegging alcohol. This of course created a huge crime and violence problem as these criminal organization sought to protect their black market. Not only that, but there was no quality control over the alcohol, it could be 200 proof or maybe 20 proof, it was certainly never printed on the bottle. There were no cessation programs, if you were drunk, you went to jail.

      These problems were not brought under control, until alcohol prohibition was repealed. Large companies such as anheuser bush started mass producing a consistent product. After legalization, we were then able to tax and regulate it. We were able to dictate through licensing who could sell it, where it could be sold, who could purchase it and at what hours of the day. We were able to start treating the addictive traits of alcohol, instead of simply sending people to prison.

      The same will happen with other drugs, even the ones you demonize. It is especially nice to see when illicit drugs are compared against legal ones in death rate. Legal drugs such as aspirin kill more people every year than all illegal drugs combined.
      Furthermore, Morphine and fentanyl, are both available through prescription even though they are both deadly and addictive. If we can control morphine, then we should have not problem controlling even those drugs which are very deadly and addictive such as heroin and meth
  • rareblue, on 07/01/2008, -1/+15The war on drugs has been a setup from our Government since day 1. I hate to plug our site but we will reveal how this entire War on Drugs has been used to create more drug addicts and line the pockets of the rich. I agree that legalization of Meth and some other drugs wouldn't seem great at first, but in the long run people help overcome their problems. Governments, turn us into a prison state.
  • wishninja, on 07/02/2008, -1/+6Funding military operations on mexico's civilian population will no doubt turn out bad news for that country.

    America will once again demonstrate how the failed policy of war to enforce prohibition will result in nothing but wasted money, human rights abuses, innocent deaths, and increased violence. It didn't stop drugs here, it didn't stop drugs in columbia, it will not work now.

    Sorry Mexico, I am not part of this idiocy.
  • btschul, on 07/02/2008, -2/+6You know, Ron Paul wanted to end the war on drugs. Which one of the candidates still running want's to end this ineffective waste of money? None? Not even Obama? Obama won't CHANGE this? Hmmmmm.
    • LordStandley, on 07/02/2008, -3/+1You keep that Ron Paul dream alive there guy. What else does he stand for though? I bet you couldn't tell us anything past drugs could you?

      Legalize weed, but ***** Ron Paul doing it.
      • btschul, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Are you serious? Ron Paul supporters are some of the most educated people you will meet. That's because you have to be a total idiot not to support him.

        1. He wants to end the war immediately
        2. He wants to reduce the size of the government to the point where the IRS can be eliminated.
        3.Eliminate the Federal Reserve
        4. Eliminate the ineffective dept. of Education and give every family a voucher for $5000 per student per year for tuition at a private school.
        5. Privatize health care
        6. Make sure the 2nd amendment is protected.
        7. He is an ob/gyn and he is pro-life
        8. He doesn't want the government regulating the internet.
        Please just ask if you would like me to go on....
      • LordStandley, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Oh please go on with your Ron Paul fantasies. And all this will be done on a magical cloud of goodness.
        Ron Paul is weak and the reason why he didn't make it this far. Tell us more though.
  • aliweb, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4Well....Americans are number one drug abusers with Marijuana coming at first place according to World Health Organization
    http://digg.com/health/Americans_are_number_one_dr ...
  • SweetyJulia, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2Interestingly .. How much is the adoption of the law now?..
  • Britney90210, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1George Bush will bankrupt our country before Obama or Mccain takes over.
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