I've read and watched much about the war on drugs. Started in the Regan days. And now no politician feels safe on standing up against it because he will look soft on crime. Hence more govt budget goes to prisons then to schools.

The shocking part was seeing people who felt the need to sell some drugs because they had become unemployeed, were close to penniless. They got caught for selling just enough to force them to go to prison for 20-30yrs. While people I feel have committed far worse crimes go free to make room for them.

>>>> There are too many criminals in the US. If you compare it to any other western country, the US is far more criminal.
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>>>Well there are more laws here than anywhere else too. More laws = more laws to break = more criminals. Plus the police here are actually effective (ya know, if you call them they actually DO show up, most of the time anyway.. if they're not to busy beating an innocent motorist or shooting an unarmed guy 50 times).
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>>Nice try. but murders are criminal acts everywhere and murders occur in the US far more than any other western countries. There is enough prove that the US has a violent society.
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>>Walter,
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>Good point Walter - I stand corrected. Perhaps the USA has a higher rate of volent crimes, but how many people do we have locked up for many years for victimless crimes? That's one thing that bothers me, they have to let some werdio child-molester out to make room for the guy caught selling 20 bucks worth of drugs.