"Call Off the Global Drug War," Proclaims Former President

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Former President Jimmy Carter adds his voice to many other police chiefs, health professionals, military analysts, and an international Blue Ribbon Commission urging the United States to Call Off the Global Drug War. The so called "war on drugs" is really a 'war on drug users", which is not only destroying the lives of those needing medical and mental health care, but is also corrupting foreign police forces, and governments, as well, as creating and funding, a vast criminal infrastructure that represents a growing threat to US national security.

In a message to Congress in 1977, I said the country should decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, with a full program of treatment for addicts. I also cautioned against filling our prisons with young people who were no threat to ...

 

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