Who We Are and Why We Fight: "People Who Do Drugs, and People Who Don't, Will End the

[DwayneHoover]

Who We Are and Why We Fight: "People Who Do Drugs, and People Who Don't, Will End the

Who We Are and Why We Fight: "People Who Do Drugs, and People Who Don't, Will End the War on Drugs"

The foremost U.S. authority on the harm of the drug war paints a clear and brilliant picture of the path to a better future.

December 14, 2011

Ethan Nadelmann electrified the audience with this comprehensive and provocative address at the 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference in November in downtown Los Angeles....

For full article go to: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/15344...people_who_don't,_will_end_the_war_on_drugs"_

 

[23536]

This is a really galvanizing speech. This guy says everything that's said on e.g. this forum, but says it really eloquently and powerfully. For those who aren't in the mood to read this very long speech, watch the (35 minute) video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vcewzUK9fIM#!

 

[23536]

let me just add that's it's great to see discrete groups of people converging their passions and ideologies spontaneously, like fish and aquatic mammals evolving similar body parts despite lacking a common ancestor. A movement that forms spontaneously cannot easily be beaten back, and will reach a point of inevitability.

 

[edgarshade]

From the article...

Whenever we doubt our own convictions; whenever we believe, on some level, that our struggle for the human rights of the people who use drugs is somehow a lesser struggle than struggle for civil rights or women’s rights or gay rights or other movements for social justice and freedom, we undermine our own efficacy and power.

We are going to become more and more powerful. We are going to end the prison. We’re going to use the economic arguments. We’re going to use every argument at our disposal. And we are going to fight, fight, fight for the principle that nobody, but nobody, deserves to be punished for what we put in our bodies that causes no harm to others. That nobody but nobody deserves to be harmed for what we put into our bodies. This is a fight for freedom and sovereignty and dignity. This is a fight for justice. You are, we are, the vanguard of this movement. Let’s change the world. Thank you very much.

 

[DexterMeth]

It's all about the benjamins.

Become and economist and rip this shit in half.

Fort Knox is probably full of drugs, not gold.

 

[slimvictor]

This is really incredible.
The ideas are not new, as numbers said, but the way he puts them is just perfect.
Spread the word!