Newsvine - US law fights submarine-like boats hauling cocaine

To quote somewhat out of context, Walter Cronkite, distinguished television journalist and author, sailor and Overseer of the US National Maritime Historical Society:

In terms of lost lives, wasted money, and eroded civil liberties, the casualties of this war grow daily.

• Thousands of terminally ill patients are cruelly being denied the modicum of relief that medical marijuana could provide.

• Millions of Americans are wasting away in jail for non-violent drug offenses.

• Billions of dollars are being spent pursuing small time users...instead of treating addiction, reducing poverty, and targeting king pins and major traffickers.

From a renewal membership request from the Drug Policy Alliance.

- Sun Apr 5, 2009 1:29 PM EDT