The government decided to make drugs illegal at the federal level, similar to the alcohol prohibition of the same decade.

Even though drugs and alcohol are personal responsibility issues -- as it is up to each citizen to decide what they ingest into their own bodies -- our government decided to protect us from ourselves.

Over time, drugs and alcohol became a hot black market item. The price went up and criminals now had a huge profit motive to push drugs and alcohol on people, their kids, and their kids.

Over time, we developed a huge drug problem. It was slower to arrive than the alcohol problem because very few people were familiar with the types of drug stimulants available. In addition, we had huge social stigmas about drugs and the population frowned upon drug abusers. With alcohol, the problem was immediate because Americans socially accepted alcohol if it was used responsibly and did not interfere with an individual's daily life, his job, or his family.

The alcohol prohibition caused so much unhappiness with the population, not to mention a huge crime problem that spilled over into innocent citizens lives, that our Government repealed the Constitutional Amendment that made alcohol illegal. That process took twelve years.

80 years later, drugs are a huge problem in this country because the government has caused the same problems with drugs as they caused with the first prohibition -- alcohol.

Those same criminal types that manipulate that old black market are making lots of money with that old profit motive to push drugs on your kids and eventually their kids.

The government knows the issue. They know the problem. They want to perpetuate the lie so they can keep throwing billions of dollars of your money at this problem that they created. They know the cure to this problem.

Why won't they repeal the federal drug laws that they needed an amendment to the Constitution to enact in the first place? An amendment would have given the authorization to make drugs illegal in the first place. (See the 10th Amendment regarding this authorization problem.)

Why, Indeed? Who is making all of the money from drugs at this inflated price the government has caused? Why have they brainwashed the American people into this charade of trying to control an individual's right to personal responsibility?

Again America, who is making the money in this farce?

Why aren't they taxing us to death with drugs like they do with alcohol, tobacco, and everything else under the sun? Wake up America, and smell the pot they have foisted upon our children. Smell the stench that drugs have caused in our country!

Make them legalize this crap and tax us to death with it like everything else! Let's take our country back and make it a moral and social issue again that WE control as parents! Not the government!

Repeal these unconstitutional laws that they have hammered the American public with for 80 years. Have you noticed how many parts of your Bill of Rights have been stolen from you, America -- in the name of this illegal drug war? How many of your children must be in jail before you see the light?

Stop it! Stop the cycle! Throw these scumbags that are currently residing in our government in political office as Democrats and Republicans, out the door. You have heard our citizens talk of them as the scourge of our society -- you know they are.

Yet, you cling to the idea that these people will correct our social ills. They are the ones that caused them!

They have strayed from the Constitutional boundaries that our forefathers set for them. Our parents, their parents, and their parents allowed this corruption to happen. You didn't know any better because you grew up in the government schools and you read the government-controlled newspapers, and you watch the government-controlled television. They sucked you in and brainwashed you and now you have to see the light or our country will continue to be destroyed, little by little, until it is too late.

They are sucking the life right out of you to fight back. Two-parent families must both work to make ends meet. You don't have enough time to question anything because you have no time. They made it so all of your time is spent to earn money to pay taxes.

Links to more information about
Prohibition and the War on Drugs

From the Lindesmith Center -
Drug Policy Foundation
Research Brief: Drug Prohibition & the U.S. Prison System
In Depth Report: Illicit Drugs and Crime

From Jack Herrer:
An online book regarding the history
of Marijuana and Hemp
The Emperor Wears No Clothes

From NORML -
In Depth Section on Industrial Hemp
The Federal Government currently classifies Industrial Hemp as Marijuana and thereby considers the growing of this environmentally friendly and helpful crop a crime - Hemp could solve some of our Environmental and Conservation Problems, read more about this plant which was grown by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson!
About Hemp

Visit the Common Sense for Drug Policy Website:
http://www.csdp.org

Quotes about Prohibition

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."

- Albert Einstein,
while visiting the United States

“Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”

-- Abraham Lincoln

"It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself."

- Justice Casey Percell

"Libertarians may also be able to claim the moral high ground on one of their signature issues: Criticism of the nation's costly, long-running war on drugs."

- John Gregg, MetroWest Daily News
(Massachusetts), February 22, 2001