BLAMING THE WRONG PERSON

Black Lives Matter blames Bill for the crime bill that put a generation of Black men into prison.*

It is actually the War on Drugs** that has imprisoned Black people at a rate WAY higher than White people for the same drug offense. Blacks are 13% of drug users, but are 74% of people sent to prison for drugs.

The War on Drugs was designed as a racist law. Asslinger stated that marijuana is horrible because it makes a Black man think that he can look a White woman in the eye.

Opiates were favored by Chinese immigrants. Cocaine was favored by the bright young things who believed that Blacks were equal to Whites.

By making these substances illegal, Asslinger knew that he could then arrest anyone who got too "uppity".

Nixon used propaganda to keep the Drug War running. The hippies not only used these substances, but they were advocating repealing all laws which controlled the behavior of consenting adults. Like Asslinger, Nixon wanted to be able to arrest anyone who got in his way.

WE NEED TO STOP THE WAR ON DRUGS. Like prohibition of alcohol, the War on Drugs is causing chaos wherever it is waged. Terrorists use drug profits to fuel terror. The intercity poor sell drugs as a way out of poverty.

President Obama has the authority to remove all recreational drugs from the Federal Schedules. He can then require scientific proof that a drug is worse than alcohol before a drug is allowed back on the Federal Schedules. It is time to use science rather than propaganda to make our drug decisions.

The neat thing about stopping the War on Drugs is that drug dealers are very territorial. They will take their illegal profits and invest those profits in legal businesses in their own neighborhoods.

Not only will the chaos stop, but poor neighborhoods will get the investment needed to become middle class neighborhoods.


* Most of the Black people imprisoned were the results of states passing "three strikes" laws. In California prosecutors swore, "If you pass three strikes I would NEVER use it for petty crimes." It passed and soon people were put in prison for life for stealing a bicycle or a six pack of beer.

** Drugs here means marijuana, cocaine, crack, heroin, LSD, magic mushrooms, etc. These drugs are MUCH less harmful than alcohol. I believe the increase in heroin deaths is because the DEA has made pain pills unavailable. I react badly to modern arthritis medication, and to Tylenol.  But I am consistently denied effective pain medication. I really understand being in so much physical pain that heroin seems to be the only choice available.