Money is the driving force behind much of the crime and the violence that accompany drugs. With an outrageously inflated black market and greed being an inevitable part of human nature, the war on drugs will never end. Low socioeconomic neighborhoods suffer from infestation of drugs and drug dealers. To the children who live in these neighborhoods, drugs and dealing is glamorized and new recruiters are brought in to continue the cycle. Unless action is taken and a step towards decriminalizing drugs is put into affect, this war will continue to infringe on the civil liberties of every American and continue in the decay of the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Because America can not control drugs within it’s borders, Coca farmers in Columbia are being eradicated along with the Coca plant and billions of dollars in taxes are being lost all to fight a war which will never be won. The War on Drugs is essentially a civil war against America itself. Everyone- from the drug dealer, to the drug abuser, to the drug free suburban family- suffers from this war one way or another.

Circulating on the television screens across America are anti-drug commercials aimed at the pre-teen and teenage community. While it has been proven that teenagers are more likely to be susceptible to experimenting with drugs as compared to adults (drugs being illicit drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy rather than alcohol and tobacco), alcohol and tobacco not only lead to more deaths than illicit drug users, but also serve as more of a gateway drug rather than marijuana. One commercial states that by buying drugs, a person helped to massacre an entire family in Columbia. What it doesn’t tell you is that hysterical drug enforcers are burning down and permanently destroying the precious and sacred Coca plants of the Columbian people. Because the government certainly and obviously can’t control drug use in America, their aim is to stop it at the source at the expense of the Columbian people who not only make their livelihood off of the Coca plant (which their government supports) but cherish it’s sacred source and healing powers as well. A Coca farmer in Columbia averages about $1,000 per month but the government is paying off the Coca farmers by giving them $2,000 in subsidies and technical assistance to grow crops like rice, corn, and fruit which will but a substantial dent in their monthly income. Along with a lower monthly income, about 10,000 rural residents may be displaced because of the Coca eradication.# As well as destroying Coca plants in Columbia, President Bush has also been playing on the hearts and fears of many Americans since the September 11th terrorist attacks by stating that drugs support terrorism. These ludicrous s

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