Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts Jr. penned this article and, along with Jack Cole founder of LEAP, will continue this discussion on his blog.
Maybe we should legalize drugs.
I come neither eagerly nor easily to that maybe. Rather, I come by way of spiraling drug violence in Mexico that recently forced Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to acknowledge the role America’s insatiable appetite for narcotics plays in the carnage. I come by way of watching Olympian Michael Phelps do the usual public relations song and dance after being outed smoking weed, and knowing the whole thing was a ritualized farce. Most of all, I come by way of personal antipathy: I don’t like and have never used illegal drugs.
But yeah, I’m thinking maybe we should legalize them.
Or at the very least, begin the discussion.
via – The Miamia Herald “Begin discussion on legalizing drugs“
