Former Congressman Wants to Legalize Drugs
May 27th, 2009 by RickThe drug legalization movement received an unexpected ally last Wednesday, when always outspoken former Republican Congressman, Tom Tancredo, gave a speech at the Denver Lincoln Club in Colorado in front of a mostly conservative audience. He says the drug war has been a failure and that it’s time to legalize drugs before the cartel violence, that has already crossed the border, becomes any worse.
Another reason to legalize, Tancredo says, is because the children are able to get drugs before they can get alcohol. This is the classic argument when it comes to legalization and the kids – dealers don’t check ID’s.
Some believe that Tancredo plans to run for Governor or even Senator for Colorado (even though he himself has not decided on what he’ll be doing) and feel that speaking out against prohibition and siding with drug legalization is political suicide.
Tancredo says:
People may not be ready for this, all I’m asking the people to do is to think about this issue, very carefully.
Tancredo also wants the states to individually legalize drugs in their own way and then have the other states, unsure of what direction to go in, to use them as an example. Question is, which state would take that leap of faith and open up a whole new can of worms with the federal government by legalizing drugs?
