Don't stop the War on drugs

The Next Generation IS Worth It – keep fighting the drugs war

Something as important as a global war on drugs shouldn’t be stopped because some are saying it is already a failure! Did America stop the war on terror, which they say is the most important fight going, because they didn’t catch Usamah bin laden for five years? They looked and looked until they ‘got ‘em’’ and now an equally dangerous enemy, drugs, which kills thousands each year, is not worth ‘going after’ for the long run, because.. Why??

What about the years after 2008?

The Guardian (AP) sites a statistic; between 1998 and 2008 the use of cocaine has increased 28 %.  Does that include crack, a worse form of the drug? What about other drugs? I’m not convinced. Also, what about stats in recent years; like after 2008? Maybe there has been an improvement? Even if there hasn’t been marked improvement, who decides whether it is important enough, or worth the resources spent to keep at it, until the war on drugs turns around?

It is giving a really wrong message to young people, by saying that “the war on drugs is a failure”. This will only encourage more drug use and pave the way for a new generation of addicts. The most startling thing expressed was the idea advanced by the commission that drugs should [therefore] be legalized, reported by the Boston Globe (Guardian website). It makes it seem like there is something more at stake than just the lack of progress thus far, maybe a lucrative industry which would be owned by government instead of illegal markets.

Drug addiction is pandemic, and it’s a war that the world can’t afford to lose. Please support the continued fight against this enemy which has hurt countless lives and families of drug addicts. People can lobby the global commission to continue the WAR ON DRUGS, or write their governments.