A Real War on Illegal Drugs

The “Chance for Sanity” Party’s plank on Illegal Drugs will be one of enforcement and not kowtowing to the liberals, addicts, corporate leaders, and criminals. Instead of taking one slip after another down the well-greased slope to a drug infused culture like some sci-fi movie, I will greatly reduce our addiction.

The drug usage in the 1950’s was a minor problem because growing, importing, wholesaling, retailing, and usage were illegal and imprisonable. We have caved to the point where the federal government has reduced actual funding for drug intervention and enforcement while allowing states to supersede federal drug laws by enacting laws legalizing recreational and medical marijuana use. Allowing users to buy a $5.00 ticket if caught means it is okay to break the law and become addicted.

My policy on drug use will be to arrest users and put them into low security work camps for a minimum of fourteen days for first offense and adding an additional two weeks for each successive arrest. In addition to the fencing, drug dogs will be on patrol to ensure no drugs are smuggled to the detainees. Counselors will be used to aid in detoxifying heavy users. Those who retail the drugs — kids or adults — will be imprisoned in more secure and less pleasant camps. The many camps will not allow any electronic or personal communications. Those people in the higher positions of sales will have their possessions confiscated even if they are co-owned by their families and sold to pay for enforcement and detention.

Those in the wholesaling, transportation, manufacturing, importing, involvement, and financing will be locked up in a medium security prison and lose all their possessions. A special division will search for the cash kept offshore or invested. Financial institutions will be accountable and the CEO’s and down will be held as those who deposited the money.

States will participate in the local crackdown and getting the confiscated possessions for their use or sale. Any state or community which does not fully participate will lose federal funding for all law enforcement funding and other funds that they depend on in their budget. Federal offices will be moved out of that state to a surrounding state. This is a necessary and drastic action

The manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs and knowing or suspecting of overuse will be considered as a criminal activity. The private or corporate entity will be confiscated for sale. The officers, some employees, and investors gained from the sales, so they will be penalized. Previous investors may have their profits clawed back. Banks and other financers will lose their investment.

The federal government has the power and authority to do most of this battle to end our addiction. Congress will only need to fund another 30,000 federal agents. The war will not be won in a few years but could be in ten years.