The Waste on drugs


	The Waste on drugs

earnric

4-9-2008 1:59 PM

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drugs, government

earnric says:

The federal war on drugs has been a disaster from so many perspectives it boggles the mind.

Can you think of a better way to spend $500 BILLION? Not to mention filling our jails (more than 70% of people in jail are there on drug related offenses - most of them minor)...

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