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"Now We're In A Real War . . . Isn't It Time To Abandon The War On Ourselves?" Experience teaches that prohibition fails, but that liquor stores and pharmacies succeed in controlling soft and hard drugs.

This advertisement appeared in the National Review, the The New Republic, the Weekly Standard, The Nation, Reason Magazine and The Progressive in the fall of 2001

This advertisement is also available in printer-ready Portable Document Format (PDF).

ISN'T IT TIME TO ABANDON
THE WAR ON OURSELVES?

DRUG PROHIBITION:

  • Creates a criminal class of great wealth with the power to corrupt
  • Provides profit motive for selling drugs to our youth
  • Generates huge illicit profits that fund terrorists and destabilize nations
  • Wastes between $35 and $40 Billion of our taxes each year
  • Arrests nearly 1.6 million people each year, most just ordinary citizens
  • Chips away at our Constitutional rights and liberties
  • Targets African-American and Hispanic communities
  • Denies marijuana to patients suffering with AIDS, glaucoma and cancer
  • Spreads AIDS and Hepatitis C to the general population and to newborns by denying clean needles to injection drug users
EXPERIENCE TEACHES:
Prohibition fails but liquor stores and pharmacies succeed in controlling soft and hard drugs.

Kevin B. Zeese, President, Common Sense for Drug Policy
3220 N Street NW #141, Washington, DC 20007
202-299-9780 -- 202-518-4028 (fax)
www.csdp.org -- www.DrugWarFacts.org -- www.NarcoTerror.org
info@csdp.org
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