The "War on Drugs"

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5454035

http://ssdp.org/rememberrachel/

This is just another example of the damage that our supposed "war on drugs" is doing to the people of this country. A young girl murdered because police wanted to catch some drug dealers. Now I am not advocating legalization of all drugs, but when you have a small-time pot dealer, a 23-year old girl who just graduated college, being pretty much forced to become an informant by a daunting 4 year prison sentence, something is wrong. Add to that the fact that she was told to try and buy $13,000 of cocaine and a handgun from dangerous criminals, that's just the icing on the cake. This girl had her whole life ahead of her. It's just sad. Then the police try to make her look like she's Tony Montana after she's dead because of their botched operation, which is just a slap in the face to her whole family and anyone with any sense.

Like the "war on terrorism" and the "war on poverty", I think we need to have an intelligent conversation in this country about the "war on drugs". Does anyone notice how these "wars" seem to only serve as a distraction and never actually deal with real heart of the issues? Are poverty, terrorism, or drugs ever going to disappear? No. So why don't we try to deal with them logically rather than declaring more "wars", which we seem to love in this country?