32 Reasons Why We Need To End The War On Drugs

Expect the legalization/decriminalization drumbeat to grow steadily louder throughout the media as it is widely known that Obama will pursue legalization of marijuana in his second term.

A new organization, Count the Costs, has decided it’s time for an assessment. To this end, they have compiled a comprehensive report detailing the death and destruction the war on drugs has directly caused around the world over the past 50 years.

Unfortunately, as Count the Costs points out, the saddest effect of the war on drugs is that “the centrality of criminalizing users means that in reality a war on drugs is to a significant degree, a war on drug users – a war on people.”

Read the article here.