by Marc Phillippe Babineau

Created on: May 07, 2010   Last Updated: May 19, 2010

The United States has every right to enforce it’s own illicit drug laws, to continue with their war on drugs, as long as that war does not spoil the constitutional rights granted those who live in other countries.  The CIA, DEA, FBI, and all of those other initialized spy agencies can do whatever is allowed to their own citizens, on their own soil.  However, when that aspect comes onto the international scale, the US has no role to play in reducing the production of illicit drugs, such as cocaine and heroin, in places like Bolivia and Afghanistan.

The American government can fill it’s own prisons with hundreds of thousands of people who simply smoked a joint of pot, or had the remains of a joint in their ashtray when searched by the police for acting “suspicious”, or for the slightest traffic infringement.  They actually do.  But, as long as what the US does in their war on drugs stays within it’s own borders, and supports laws that are both State and Federal, they are acting in a way that is no problem on the international stage.

As long as the US’s actions with regards to their war on drugs does not infringe upon a person’s rights as guaranteed under the human rights code, they are acting within their rights.  Sometimes, it is hard to learn from past mistakes, like prohibition and Vietnam (fighting a war in a country where the last man is willing to die for their country).  However, to take that war on drugs and wage it on another country’s soil is nothing short of a declaration of war, unless the Americans were invited in by that country’s ruling party.

The US needs to look within before it looks without.  There have been wars, incursions and covert operations by the top military interventionist platoons, black ops groups and hired mercenaries inside other country’s borders, with regards to the US’s own drug laws.  And, this has happened regardless of the invaded country‘s drug laws, like in Bolivia and Columbia.  Can the US force it’s own moral beliefs and drug laws on other countries?  What gives them the right?

Would the US appreciate having other countries, like Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bolivia, with huge numbers of their citizens living and working within the US, being able to enforce their own drug laws on US soils?  If they were against the smoking of marijuana for any reasons, and struck out against California and it’s

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