Dear leroy2112,

Please accept my HIGH five. You go, brother.

Weak people can't face life without drugs.

Life can be great. Every minute spent high, in a stuper, is a minute of life LOST.

Throw the crap away and get strong. Learn to live.

Your tax dollars at work, again.

More change we can only believe in, but not see.

Excerpts from the Australian Drug Policy report titled: "The prohibition of illicit drugs is killing and criminalising our children and we are all letting it happen."

“For us, when we lost our son, we did not seek sympathy, we saw the injustice and craziness of our drug laws. We wanted people to focus on that, not on our suffering.” – Marion and Brian McConnell are founding members of 'Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform'.

“Many people who think of themselves as the beneficiaries of prohibition are really net losers. Parents are much more at risk of losing their children under prohibition than they would be if there was some kind of system where we had some measure of control over illicit drugs.” – Hon Professor Peter Baume AC, Former Chancellor of the ANU and Minister for Health in the Fraser Government

“I think the idea that prohibition kills is an important one. So my plea is how can we get governments to buy into this issue? I think they need to see that what they are doing and not doing, is causing a lot of the harms. At some stage they have to be held accountable for allowing this to happen.” – Hon Professor Geoff Gallop AC, Former Premier of Western Australia

“What we want governments to do is feel quite uncomfortable about the predicament they have put us in. They are running a system that is causing a whole lot of harm." - Hon Michael Moore, CEO Public Health Association of Australia and former Minister of Health for the ACT

“I am strongly in favour of legalising, regulating, controlling and taxing all drugs." - Nicholas Cowdery AM QC Director of Public Prosecutions for NSW from 1994 to 2011

“The key message is that we have 40 years of experience of a law and order approach to drugs and it has failed.” - Hon Dr Michael Wooldridge, Former Health Minister in the Howard Federal Government

"The current policy of prohibition discredits the law, which cannot possibly stop a growing trade that positively thrives on its illegality and black market status. Like the failure of the prohibition of alcohol in the USA from 1920 to 1933, the current prohibition of illegal drugs is creating more harms than benefits and needs to be reconsidered by the Australian community."

"The move against prohibition is gathering momentum in other countries across the ideological spectrum as communities around the world place responsibility for the costs of prohibition where it belongs: with those legislators who continue, by default, to support the international prohibition approach."

"Beneficiaries of the current approach include the law enforcement industry, those who benefit from the occupancy of prisons and a thriving insurance industry that insures residents for the high rates of household crime. The converse of this is that law-abiding citizens are the biggest losers."

"Because the issue is trivialised in sound bites such as “Tough on Drugs” or “Soft on Drugs” the realities of prohibition are not seriously discussed and the major harms that result from this failed policy are not being addressed."

"By maintaining prohibition and suppressing or avoiding debate about its costs and benefits, it can be argued justifiably that our governments and other influential sectors of the community are standing idly by while our children are criminalised."

"It is time to reactivate Australian debate on this matter, drawing attention to the accountability of governments for allowing an unacceptable situation to persist , and the fact that the community has allowed this to happen."

"Drug taking undoubtedly produces serious harms to individual drug users and their families. Many of the harms to them, to others and to society at large are a result of the national policy of prohibition and criminalisation which, arguably, increases, rather than decreases, the risks of more people becoming drug dependent."

The discussion included 24 former senior state and federal politicians, experts in drug policy and public health and former law enforcement officers.

why cant the dea arrest obama he amid to smoking pot?

sorry, the WAR on DRUGS, we will NEVER win. times are changing man, keep up or go away. several, laws, policies needs to be changed to accommodate the 21st century. we are not in the 1800's anymore. Bogus. my taxes are going to government agencies that I strongly disagree with and that are being run by a bunch of monkeys. I think that if the government and everything the government controls wasn't so corrupt, we may just be a happier and wealthier nation. by the people for the people, right. what a joke. I wish we had a choice on where taxes go. I would like to support what I believe in and not give my hard earned dollars away to what I don't.

" I wont interfere with medical marijuana in states where it is legal" Another broken Obama campaign promise.

It looks like we will never win the wars on murder, drugs, car theft, or any other crimes. That doesn't mean we should give in to the CRIMINALS.

DON'T NEVER , EVER , EVER , EVER , NEVER, EVER , EVER, LEGALIZE ILLEGAL DRUGS IN YOUR COUNTRY ; look at mehico , '' people '' !!! and common sense alone tells you that if you study the habits of humanity , they always are the hardest to keep satisfied !!!!!!!!! IF YOU TRY TO MAKE THEM HAPPY , FILLING THEIR LUNGS WITH CANNIBAS , THEY WILL GROW TIRED OF IT , AND PROCEED TO THE NEXT ILLEGAL LEVEL OF DOPE !!!!!!!! COMMON SENSE 101 , AND IT'S FREE IN THIS FORUM !!!!!!!!