Obviously this guy is accepting u.s. Aid but not believing their bullshit, Bravo!

Some drugs are dangerous and their addictive nature means that they enslave their users. Obviously this is the kind of power over people that the state should allow dangerous criminals a monopoly.

Legalise! The weed at least.

The war on drugs make no sense at all. Legalise all drugs, use the money for rehabilitation and education and u will see drug use drop as shown in countries like portugal. It would also have a huge benefit towards crime and the ensuing court and prison debacle.

Yeah. If you can’t beat them join them.

Course he wants to legalise drugs! It’s Colombia!! it’d be like hitting oil! If the Colombian government could sell their number one product legally around the world they’ll be rolling in it!!

To comment first u have to know about the topic is not just about to legalise it and sell legal drugs, is not about become a new Amsterdam is about end these bloodbath, the cartels make billions of dollars every year so if u legalise no one will buy drugs because they will grow them in their on houses, if the prize to the end these drug war is to become a new Amsterdam go for it if u don’t like drugs easy do not use them, no one put a gun in ur head to buy drugs but u put a gun in innocent people head to sell them

Ever president before him said the same as soon as they left office.

Making drugs illegal is 100% illogical.

The legalisation of soft drugs is a no brainer. Even if it were true that there were major health implications, a fraction of the budget involved in policing and jailing, community watch etc would pay for a first class health service. While drugs, like alcohol, do pose real health risks simply banning them has not worked and never will. The whole idea was born out of the American neocon movement and is trying to impose their religious values on the rest of society at enormous economic and social cost. The fuelling of gangland warfare and criminality is worse than the problem of drugs themselves and has wrecked working class areas of every city on earth.

Historically, the prohibition of any mind altering substance has never succeeded in providing what is needed, which is a safer environment for all the users, addicts, their families and society at large. We can therefore safely state: Prohibition will always spawn far worse conditions than those it’s ignorant supporters claim to be able to alleviate.

While it is true that taking any drug (especially alcohol and tobacco) can sometimes indirectly affect others, this exact same argument was used to implement and painfully prolong alcohol prohibition during the 1920s. Alcohol related homicide, violence, wife battering and child neglect were definitely not curtailed, nor were they even slightly ameliorated during this earlier period of national Wack-a-Mole insanity. Not only did Prohibition exacerbate all of the above problems it also increased usage while bootleggers like many of our present day drug lords became rich and powerful folk heroes as a result. http://i.imgur.com/Ga1Gs.png

Similar to Alcohol Prohibition in the 1920s, Drug Prohibition has given us rampant corruption, off the scale criminality, a bust economy and mass unemployment. On top of all this, it has gifted us the planet’s highest incarceration rate, a civil war in Mexico, an un-winnable war in Afghanistan and an even higher rate of drug-use (legal & illegal) than in all other countries, including those that have far more libertarian policies.

When we regulate (as apposed to prohibit) a substance we do NOT automatically condone it’s use; the regulations concerning alcohol and tobacco are there to protect us from the vast increase in criminality that would otherwise exist if these substances were prohibited instead of properly regulated.

A regulated and licensed distribution network for all mind altering substances would put responsible adult supervision in between children and their otherwise premature access to drug distribution outlets. Regulated and licensed distribution would reflect and respect society’s values thus preventing children obtaining easy access to these dangerous substances. What we need is legalized regulation. What we have at the moment is a non-regulated black market to which everybody has easy access, including our children, and where all the vast profit goes to organized criminals, ruthless foreign terrorists and corrupt government agencies.

Prohibition Prevents Regulation – Legalize, Regulate & Tax!