Welcome
We’re so glad you’re here to learn the truth.
Our War on Drugs has been a super-colossal failure of unprecedented proportions even after seven decades, as we have the world’s highest drug use rate.
The drug war, not drugs, kills people and it has killed hundreds of thousands more people than drugs kill and the number of our children, teens and adults murdered in this war is truly horrendous.
One-third of prisoners are dead by age 45 and our prisons also kill many more people than drugs. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world by far, and since two-thirds of prisoners are rearrested within three years and some are rearrested after that, prison actually kills more people than it rehabilitates.
Our prisons don’t educate, rehabilitate or deter drug use; they only destroy lives and kill, primarily African-Americans. Prisons also contribute significantly to the drug epidemic, as the only job ex-felons can get is crime and it’s usually selling drugs. So we’ve built a thousand new useless prisons for non-violent drug offenders and all we’ve accomplished is to perpetuate the drug epidemic.
Add to this the suffering and death caused by AIDS, hepatitis and other contagious diseases along with the violence and death of the illicit drug trade around the world and by comparison the drugs themselves are benign.
The drug war has also caused a huge increase in teen gangs and this has contributed to our huge high school drop-out rate that is six times higher than in the Netherlands, where drugs are legally available, regulated, controlled and taxed.
The ultimate insult; whites do the drugs (86%) and blacks do the time (75%), thus creating racism that is worse for African-Americans than slavery ever was.
Marijuana is the safest recreational, over-the-counter or prescription drug in the world, never causing one death. The miraculous medical benefits of marijuana are denied not only to cancer and AIDS patients, but also to many other people with one of the numerous diseases for which it has been proven therapeutic and beneficial.
Narcoterrorism: this unwinnable war also funds terrorists and it’s immoral for us to wage a war in Iraq to fight terrorism while at the same time we fund terrorism.
The drug war is also devastating to the environment, both directly in so many ways and indirectly, as hemp is illegal and could reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reduce global warming.
The Netherlands has more than three decades of indisputable success with its policies of decriminalizing drugs and providing treatment to its drug abusers and addicts. Treatment is the only thing that has ever been proven to reduce drug use and demand, not punishment. We must learn from their success and we are nominating them for a Nobel Prize.
Every attempt at incarceration, source intervention, chemical eradication, border surveillance, and even coercing and bribing foreign governments has not only failed, but often backfired. In the process this war has corrupted tens of thousands of police, officials, and judges here and in other countries and squandered more than a trillion dollars.
Drug prohibition was based on lies and perpetuated solely for the political advantage of appearing “Tough on Drugs.” It has all backfired as we have the highest drug abuse in the world with twelve times the average drug use of all the other countries.
Now is the time to be patriotic and abandon this inhumane, immoral, and deadly policy. This is an insane war on our own citizens, not drugs, and it must end! Please go to our online petition and make your voice heard, so that we can convince our Congress to end this deadly war.
Thank you very much for caring enough to take a stance on this critical issue. It means so much to me and everyone whose life has been devastated by this war.
Appreciatively,
Stephen H. Frye, M.D.
