2006 War on Drugs = 1920 Prohibition
A short but very interesting documentary about a group of judicial and law enforcement agents in the US openly critizising the current “War on Drugs” from the past 36 years as a flawed policy, in the same way that the prohibition on alcohol between 1920-33 created the scarce market that lead to the increase of criminality. Interesting not only because of the facts presented, but because of who these 5,000 people are – the ones who deal with the drug reality on a daily basis. Via the MLS blog.
What wasn’t tackled in the documentary was what would happen if drugs are legalized. Those criminals would need an alternate source of income. What will they think of in order to make easy money if the whole drug trade dissapears. Its like invading Iraq and not thinking the whole thing through before stampeding in.