HOW DO WE END THE GANG VIOLENCE?
END PROHIBITION!
END PROHIBITION!
IF WE END DRUG PROHIBITION, WE WILL END THE GANG VIOLENCE
Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s did not reduce supply or demand of alcohol, but it did result in organized crime and gangsters being in total control of the production, distribution and sale of booze.
As alcohol prohibition was more strictly enforced, and law enforcement increased, the stakes for criminals got higher. Rivals shot at and killed each other in turf wars, trying to control the market and their lucrative source of untaxed income.
Law enforcement was completely unable to stop the increasingly violent gangs and illegal alcohol production. In many cases the police themselves became corrupted by the wealthy gangsters they were supposed to be fighting. The problems only continued to get worse.
It was only once alcohol prohibition was repealed that the rumrunners and violent gangsters were put out of business.
The same thing is happening today with drug prohibition. Gangs are in control of the production, distribution and sale of these drugs, and they settle their disputes through violence because they cannot go to the police or courts for legal recourse.
Increased law enforcement will only raise the stakes for organized crime, making gangs more desperate and violent in their effort to control territory and lucrative drug sales.
No-one is being shot or murdered over distribution of alcohol, tobacco, aspirin or coffee, even though those substances can be more addictive and dangerous than many illegal drugs.
We need to remove criminal control over the drug market. Marijuana and other prohibited drugs need to be regulated, taxed and monitored for safety.
It's time to stop the gangs. It's time to end prohibition.
DRUG PROHIBITION,
* Gives criminal organizations a highly profitable monopoly over the drug trade.* Ensures that the drug trade is controlled by the most ruthless and violent of criminal organizations.
* Wastes enormous sums of public money that could be much better used for health support and education.
* Perpetuates corruption among law enforcement agencies.
* Forces users of less harmful substances to come into contact with more dangerous drugs.
* Ensures that hard drug users will continue to overdose and die due to a lack of testing and a safe, regulated supply.
* Prevents honest, fact-based drug education and research.
* Forces drug addicts to steal and commit other crimes to pay for their needed drugs, creating a high crime rate for the rest of society.
* Is the most expensive and least effective way of dealing with the social and health issues around the use of psychoactive substances.
* Criminalizes many of the most vulnerable people in our society who are causing harm to no-one but themselves.
GANG
VIOLENCE
IS CAUSED BY
DRUG PROHIBITION
VIOLENCE
IS CAUSED BY
DRUG PROHIBITION
Under drug prohibition, organized crime controls the enormous drug market.
Law enforcement will never be able to solve the gang problem under these conditions. Indeed, when police arrest gang members it creates more violence as gangs battle to fill the new openings.
The only way to stop the rising violence and lucrative finances associated with organized crime is to end drug prohibition.
Politicians who support prohibition are supporting organized crime.
End
Prohibition
and End
Gang Violence
End
Prohibition
and End
Gang Violence
"Drug prohibition policies are making the situation worse. We must move from prohibition to drug control regimes modelled on the experience of alcohol prohibition and control. Bold steps to confront our drug use hypocrisy and end the profitability of illegal drugs will make our communities safer" - BILL SIKSAY, NDP MP for Burnaby-Douglas Speaking in Parliament, February 2009
END PROHIBITION
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AGAINST THE
DRUG WAR
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* Why Prohibition?: www.WhyProhibition.ca
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* National Director: Nicole Seguin, info@endprohibition.ca
AGAINST THE
DRUG WAR
www.endprohibition.ca
Visit our website to stay informed and join our group!
* Why Prohibition?: www.WhyProhibition.ca
* Beyond Prohibition: www.BeyondProhibition.org
* Law Eforcement Against Prohibition: www.leap.cc
* National Director: Nicole Seguin, info@endprohibition.ca
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