Whether it's music, activism or daily life, the one ideal to which I
have always aspired is constant challenge -- taking risks, stepping
out of my comfort zone, exploring new ideas.
I believe the United States -- and all of us --
must do precisely that in the case of what has been the most
unsuccessful, unjust yet untouchable issue in politics: the war on
drugs.
The war on drugs has failed -- but it's worse than that. It is
actively harming our society. That is why ending the drug war is a
matter of social justice.
Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has
been consigned. People who genuinely need help can't get it. .. We
are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent
offenders and sacrificing our liberties.
[An op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal] dared to say in print
-- in a thoughtful, meticulous argument -- what everyone who has
seriously looked at the issue has known for years: the war on drugs
is an absolute failure whose cost to society is increasingly unbearable
and absolutely unjustifiable.
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