THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA'S DRUG
LAWS!
"they are based on lie's and racism"
 JULY-98
Legal
drugs kill 20 times more Americans WASHINGTON, DC --
Doctors kill far more people every year than drug pushers do -- a
surprising fact that should make sensible Americans start to
question the War on Drugs, the Libertarian Party said
today. Last week, the New
England Journal of Medicine reported that properly prescribed
legal drugs kill 106,000 Americans every year – 20 times more than
illegal drugs do. "Are politicians going
to declare a War on Medicine?" asked Steve Dasbach,
Libertarian Party chairman. "Of course not. So why are we spending $17
billion on the War on Drugs, arresting millions of people, and
restricting civil liberties -- all to try to solve a problem that's far
less dangerous than modern medicine?" The study found that
correctly prescribed medications claim 106,000 lives a year
because of toxic reactions. By comparison, only 5,212 Americans die annually
from illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine, according to the U.S.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. "This means that
doctor-prescribed drugs kill 20 times more people every year than
drugs peddled on street corners," said Dasbach. "Of
course, more people take prescription medication than illegal drugs, so higher death
totals are expected. But the point is that the health consequences of
illegal drugs are vastly overstated by politicians --
apparently to justify the costly government program they call the War on Drugs." In fact, Dasbach
pointed out, the government admits that aspirin killed twice
as many people last year as PCP and LSD combined! "But don't expect a
War on Aspirin," Dasbach said. "The
government
is less interested in protecting lives than in protecting the jobs of the
government bureaucrats and law enforcement personnel who are on the Drug
Prohibition payroll. "For example, marijuana
has caused no deaths, yet the government arrested
641,642 Americans last year on marijuana-related offenses, and is
threatening to prosecute doctors who prescribe marijuana for victims
of AIDS and cancer," he noted. The fact is, the real
health threat comes not from drugs, but from drug prohibition,
Dasbach said. "As Nobel
Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman says, 5,000 Americans are killed
every year solely due to Prohibition-spawned violence -- meaning
that outlawing drugs kills as many Americans every year as the drugs
themselves," he said. Dasbach emphasized
that the Libertarian Party doesn't condone drug use. "Too
many lives have been ruined by drugs, whether legal or illegal -- and we
mourn a lost life, no matter what the cause," he said. "But when the
government arbitrarily decides which drugs to outlaw, it transforms
a personal tragedy into a national disaster and turns a medical
problem into a moral crusade. "Politicians who focus
obsessively on the drug war -- while ignoring the fact that
other medical problems are far more deadly -- have lost their grip
on reality. As this new study makes clear, the War on Drugs has more to
do with political posturing than with public health -- and that's why
it's time to end it." THE U.S. MARIJUANA LAWS ARE USED TO
ARREST, IMPRISON, ENSLAVE and DIS-ENFRANCHISE MINORITIES NEW STUDY
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white majority to re-enslave the minority population using these blatently RACIST LAWS!
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