War on Drugs

  1. The war on drugs has created so many problems in our country as well as globally and has not made drugs any less available as any HS student can find anything they are looking for within 15 minutes if they try.  Alcohol is a drug and our country outlawed during prohibition which failed and created violence.  Drugs are not a healthy choice but the laws that ban them and the continued consumption fuel violence, make gangs and cartels powerful and increase incarceration levels in the US and create a militarized police force to combat
    1. For the first step decriminalize Marijuana federally and regulate locally