Prohibition of marijuana is accomplishing what?

I do not agree with everything Frosty writes but I do see the hypocrisy in our marijuana laws. The same people who are busting people for marijuana are just as likely to be using it themselves in their own recreation time.

The costs to the nation of trying to enforce something that is not enforceable is huge. After over forty years of the DEA’s war on marijuana still over half the population of this nation uses it on one or more occasions and a significant population uses it regularly.

Millions have been imprisoned for doing nothing more than using a herb that is not anymore dangerous then many other herbs and substances that are perfectly legal. Certain people go to prison because they got caught while many high government officials and the rich and famous admit to the use of marijuana and are winked at.

It is police actions like this that fosters paranoia toward government enforcement agencies. The lucrative money in marijuana establishes illegal networks and gang wars over turf that get many people killed. These same networks then bring in harder drugs.

Marijuana laws are illogical. States cannot even agree on its enforcement. In one state it is a slap on the wrist to be in position of Marijuana and in another state it is a felony with a prison term that will ruin a persons life forever. It makes no sense.

Frosty Wooldridge — Marijuana Prohibition and Public Safety

“Many experts agree that the first drug to become legal and regulated will be marijuana. As DEA law judge Francis Young concluded after an exhaustive study of cannabis: “Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” Its use has rarely been a public safety issue. One cannot overdose on it. Moreover, its legalization would be a tremendous boost to improve public safety. Why? Road officers spend million of hours searching cars for a baggie of pot. They could concentrate on the deadly DUI and reckless drivers. They would be re-directed to find and arrest the child predators on line looking for a 13 year old girl. Federal agents could completely focus on Al Qaeda and stop wasting time on medical marijuana gardens in California.”