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Democracy Now guest called out the US Drug War, because Clinton smoked marijuana!
Go to the 4:28 mark for Mexican poet Javier Sicilia's takedown of the US drug war (taken from transcript of Friday's "Democracy Now!"
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AMY GOODMAN: The Summit of the Americas and before that, we are seeing Latin American presidents, leaders, past and present, conservative, progressive, sharing the same view, a consensus around the decriminalization of drugs right now. Most people don’t even hear about this in the United States. What are your views? Are you calling for the decriminalization, for the legalization of drugs?
JAVIER SICILIA: (translated) Drugs have always existed in the world. They have even their sacred place, in the pre-Columbian rites, in the rites in Greece in the Eleusis. The problem is that the market has made it illegal. And as everything that the market touches, it got [rotten]. It’s now a problem, just as the alcohol use, like the tobacco use, like the prescription drugs in pharmacies. You have to put them into the market law so that you can control that, like any other product. There is no other way. Or what else? What’s the option? To protect kids so that they don’t use drugs, do you have to kill them, just like they killed my son? You had a president who used marijuana—Clinton did. You had an alcoholic president, Bush. If you had them in jail, you wouldn’t have had a president. So, what is the option? That’s the policy of criminalizing the use of drugs: destroying people who had possibilities and killing innocent people.
JAVIER SICILIA: (translated) Drugs have always existed in the world. They have even their sacred place, in the pre-Columbian rites, in the rites in Greece in the Eleusis. The problem is that the market has made it illegal. And as everything that the market touches, it got [rotten]. It’s now a problem, just as the alcohol use, like the tobacco use, like the prescription drugs in pharmacies. You have to put them into the market law so that you can control that, like any other product. There is no other way. Or what else? What’s the option? To protect kids so that they don’t use drugs, do you have to kill them, just like they killed my son? You had a president who used marijuana—Clinton did. You had an alcoholic president, Bush. If you had them in jail, you wouldn’t have had a president. So, what is the option? That’s the policy of criminalizing the use of drugs: destroying people who had possibilities and killing innocent people.
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