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    51 out of 1,000,000
    Petitioning
    1. The President of the United States (+ 2 others)
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      • The President of the United States
      • The U.S. Senate
      • The U.S. House of Representatives
  2. Created By
    Richard Gach
    Bloomfield, MI
About this Petition Petition Letter

The Costly War on Drugs has done much more harm than good! It has broken up many famiies; it has loaded our prisons with people who have harmed only themselves; it has created a black market that causes world wide death and destruction; it is enforced with racial bias; it has not significantly reduced drug use. PROHIBITIONS OF VICTIMLESS CRIMES HAVE NEVER WORKED, AND NEVER WILL! Addiction is a public health problem, and should have no place in the criminal justice system.

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Drug Prohibition.

Dear Representative

Drug users have been convenient scape goats ever since President Nixon discovered them. They are a small percentage of the citizenry; many are not wealthy enough to obtain their drugs legally, or to protect themselves with high priced attorneys. Prohibiting alcohol did not work because alcohol users are a large percentage of the population. Don't even think about prohibiting tobacco, because some 25% of us enjoy it. But alcohol and tobacco kill many times more people than the drugs that are currently illegal! It is time to end the prohibition, and control the distribution of drugs as we do with alcohol and tobacco. The violent cartels would be out of business, our prison population would be reduced to those who harm others, and our deficit would be significantly reduced.

Please initiate legislation, or support legislation, that will accomplish ending this unsuccessful experiment in prohibition.

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