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Show Monday A nation gone to pot 'U.S. needs to apply lessons learned by prohibition and stop imprisoning drug offenders For those of you worried about the nation's children, consider this: in many placDrugs are bad. Anyone es it is easier for an underage who has been to the pit of child to obtain illegal drugs hell that is drug addiction than alcohol. This is bewill tell you that. I myself cause dealers don't ask for have seen friends turned I.D and cannot be controlled into lying fiends by their by the government. So who need of a substance. Drugs do you want between your are a major problem for this child and a dangerous drug, country; so what is to be a dealer looking for a quick done? buck, or a licensed store owner monitored by the The definition of insangovernment who could easity is performing the same ily lose his or her livelihood action over and over again by selling to a minor? The and each time expecting a choice is yours. different outcome. This is our national drug policy, inYou see Pandora's box sanity. For years this war on has been opened. The evil drugs has promised cleaner that is drugs has been unstreets and cleaner kids. It To me at least, an obvi- leashed upon the world. Yet has achieved neither. Any ous correlation between al- still in the box there lies one high school student will cohol prohibition and drug more thing, hope. The hope tell you that getting drugs prohibition seems present. that through education and is as easy as picking up the Though the world would be open, honest debate we can phone and making a call. As a better place without alco- show our children that drugs a result, these drugs line the hol, the country saw that try- are not the way to a happy pockets of individuals who ing to take it away from the and healthy life. The hope care little for the safety and people caused more prob- that draconian laws will no well being of our children lems than it solved. Mil- longer be used to punish and more about making lions were spent on combat- those addicted to drugs who easy money. This strength- ing violent criminal gangs truly need a helping hand. ens the downward spiral of that sprung up to traffic the The hope in a brighter todrug abuse and lucrative il- then illegal substance. Yet morrow where young people legal trade until it reaches there was always someone are steered away from drugs the point we see it at today. willing to break the law and not by fear of the law but The government's an- supply it to the people at a by the knowledge and truth swer to this problem is to tidy profit. Only when pro- instilled in them by caring hunt down the dealer -and hibition was done away with adults. We as a society have throw him in jail, yet for were these violent criminals come a long way since the every dealer thrown in jail forced out of business. Per- reefer madness propaganda two more spring up to take haps some of you keeping of the 1930's. Let's set hope his place. Another popular up with current events will free and support new ideas solution is to throw the drug notice that this sounds an that actually work instead of abuserinjail. This policy is awful lot like what is hap- out-of-date punitive policies that don't. especially counterproduc- pening in Mexico today. MarcVeit Guest writer uvu April 13,2009 from Green • A5 the earth for the future. We should strive for more was the hippie'thing to do. than ineffectual activity. As We'll never know. What we students, let's make UVU a do know is climate change sustainable institution, not a is starting to take its toll on green one. Let's take this sethe planet. This generation's riously. As serious as if our responsibility and moral future on this planet dependobligation is to mitigate the ed on it. It does. Let's keep a damages done and preserve constant dialogue going and tive. As our nation's jails and prisons are filled to the i brim with nonviolent drug offenders, billions of dollars are wasted on processing and imprisoning them. And even at this huge cost to taxpayers, drug use is not curbed. Drugs are our nations answer to depression. As a drug user is processed through the system, his or her dignity is stripped away and they are fined or worse. This only adds to the user's depression and leads to a greater dependency on illegal drugs, which, thanks to the government's prohibition, cannot be tracked or monitored. challenge ourselves to be as pro-active as possible on the topic. As a community, we should be striving to make Utah County sustainable and self-reliant, and to promote a local economy, These are realistic goals. 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