End the War on Drugs

Topic of discussion in this article will provide new ideas and tactics as to why the government should cease spending billions of dollars on a war that will never end. Everyone enjoys freedom and there are soldiers who have given their lives fighting to have a country that has more liberties than any other country in the world. The government does not care that people have died and sacrificed for this country. The government wants to take away freedoms with almost every law that surfaces in the Senate and House of Representatives. Soldiers in World War I and World War II did not fight to live in a country with government controlled banks, auto industry, and currently under debate, health care. The military is currently fighting in the middle east and also in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan it seems we are destroying poppy fields that poor families harvest in order to afford food and other basic necessities. The government claims Afghanistan farmers and drug traffickers supply eighty-five percent of the worlds illicit heroin. These drug traffickers only make heroin because it is easier to move than tons of raw opium. I personally would like to ask the government a question since this country is a democracy and we should be able to get answers from people we elect to help make this country prosperous. Are we fighting a war on terrorism or are we fighting a more advanced war on drugs? This is a question that I really already know the answer because I can see that the government is simply fighting a war on drugs. The facts and footage are there, the people of this country should know the government is extravagantly spending billions of dollars to finance a high-tech war on drugs by attacking the producing countries. In Afghanistan the military is plowing poppy fields which produce opium and in South America the government is crop dusting coca fields to destroy the plants. I never can recollect the government ever discussing or obtaining approval for this highly financed war. If an every day citizen breaks a law there are repercussions either minor or major and the government obviously can break the law and escape the consequences and never give answers in the public domain. There are organizations dedicated to bringing drug traffickers and manufactures to justice. The DEA organizes and makes arrests to criminals who smuggle drugs and also keeps tabs on all prescription drugs that are classified as controlled substances. The government could save billions of dollars in this useless fight if they made these substances legal and legitimate manufactures made the drugs. The drugs could raise revenue for the government through a sin tax and the drugs would be more safe if manufactured through legal business and approved for sale to the public. Alcohol is currently legal, though that does not mean a person escapes their responsibilities. There are sensible and justified laws that prohibit drinking and driving and violence that this drug can create. There are a great deal of laws and prohibitions actually such as: Public Intoxication, Sell to a Minor, and Assault while Intoxicated(Felony-Third Degree, in most states). If drugs were legal it does not mean there will be no regulation or illegal activities anymore. People should always be held accountable for their actions, for example, alcoholics in recovery do not go and get inebriated just because it is legal they refrain because they understand they are the kind of individual that should not drink. They do have the right to choose at least they have the freedom do as they please with their own life. The government should end this senseless violence and end the ruthless drug cartels by removing them from the equation. These complications are just variables as to how the government is choosing to solve this problem. Take the taboo out of doing drugs and most people would not even care if they were legal. This standpoint comes from a business, economic and law perspective keep in mind that my perspective is not that of a drug addict. My ideas are to lower government spending, increase revenue, and to keep the focus on a better America.