War on Drugs

If you look at the majority of crimes committed in the United States you would see that nearly fifty percent of people incarcerated are nonviolent drug offenders. The government is spending five hundred dollars a second on the war on drug. To date the American tax payers have spent One Trillion dollars on the failed campaign, and drugs still remain cheap and plentiful.

In the 2009 to 2010 year, NH spent around 2.5 million dollars on Public education. On the flip side they spent 23 million dollars on the prevention and education of drugs. Added the cost to imprison drug offenders, our focus on drugs hurts children and causes more drug users by not supplying adequate schools. We could double the after school programs, add teachers and renovate schools if we looked at drug use in a realistic way.

Releasing the drug offenders to parole with monitoring devices that they have to pay for could add to revenue. They are taxable and there for more valuable out then in.

My stand point on illicit drugs is that they are not good. By the nature of drugs and how they suppress emotion and feelings make parents unavailable in ways children need. They have contributed too many violent crimes indirectly.