Posted August 17, 2015 5:22 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

Marijuana and Guns

Editors Note: Illegal drug distribution rings are a major source of so called “illegal guns”, a better word would be crime guns. Want to really do something about “illegal guns” change the way we fight the war on drugs.

Marijuana and Guns
Jim Rubens
Jim Rubens

New Hampshire – -(Ammoland.com)- Illegal drug overdose deaths have rocketed into a crisis policy challenge, claiming a staggering 325 New Hampshire lives last year, three times our traffic fatalities.

Unfortunately, we are hearing same-same from most of our political leaders: tinker around the edges with good ideas that will help (but not nearly enough) and toughen up on the drug war.

The global 50-year, $1 trillion war on drugs is a flagrant policy failure in urgent need of a thorough, evidence-based rethink. Here are the facts:

Supply interdiction drives up violence and drug supplier profits.

  • Global illegal drug demand is now $320 billion annually.
  • Since 2006, drug trade violence stemming largely from U.S. demand has killed over 100,000 people in Mexico alone.
  • U.S. taxpayers spent $7.5 billion last year attempting to eradicate production of opium (the raw material for heroin) in Afghanistan, yet cultivation there has reached record levels, supplying ¾ of global demand and occupying …read more

    Source:: AmmoLand

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