El Paso City Council approves resolution asking for debate on l...

I produce 9 radio programs per week for 59 affiliates in the US, Canada and Australia. Our topic: IllegalDrugs: Killing American Kids

We interview cops and wardens, judges and politicians, scientists, doctors and authors.

Several of our recent programs have dealt with the war in Mexico and the cartel's attempts to move into the US and take over the retail end of the US drug market. Guests have included Rusty Fleming, director of Drug Wars-Silver or Lead, Fred Burton a counter terrorism agent and 2 Sheriffs of Texas border counties.

None of my guest support illegal drug use and the El Paso City Council should be ashamed of fronting for the drug cartels.

Many politicians on both sides of the border are protecting these drug barons and being greatly enriched personally for their inside help.

I will sign off with a salute to the men and women of Law Enforcement and Those on the Front Lines of Drug Interdiction in the Border Patrol and Customs Service.

Please be sure to tune into one of our upcoming programs.

this mayor has no courage. asking the US government to study the idea of legalizing narcotics is a good thing. knowing more about the issue is a good thing. understanding the issue is a good thing. knowledge is a good thing. this man is so afraid of upsetting the status quo that he would rather us not have the knowledge to understand what is happening next door and in some cases in our own living rooms.

I produce 10 radio programs per week for 59 affiliates in the US, Canada and Australia and Africa. Our topic: Drugs In da Hood.

We interview cops and wardens, homies, judges and politicians, dope pusher, scientists, psychos doctors and amateur meth makers.

After 7 years, thousands of shows and even with the offer of cash money, there is not one person in government or wearing a badge who is willing to come on our shows for 15 minutes and take any of the drugs we have manufactured.

I see all the hate and ignorant vitriol of those posters who hate the drugs we make, but give dope a chance. After all, Your El Paso City Council did.

The council is NOT in support of the drug barons, at least not the ones who don't "contribute" let's say to their campaigns.

Several of our recent programs have dealt with the war in Mexico and the cartel's attempts to move into the US and take over the retail end of the US drug market. My Guests have included local politicians who say, they will never move in on our territory. That's why they have hired hit men.

I salute the city council for their courage and commitment in regards to our drugs.

And to all you ignorant posters/posers, ignorance in regards to the valuable benefits of illegal drugs, it is not bliss.

http://www.druglies.net

This city is full of drugs of every sort at cheap prices, every corner has a dealer. They stand near the doors of just about every 7-11 and convenience store.
The city council knows it, I guess if they legalize it, they can pretend they accomplished something.

This is moot, case closed.

I guess we all know who the dope fiend is now.

Go Bad Boy Beto! You are on the way up high.

Nicolas Eyle wrote:

Beto O'Rourke for mayor! He's absolutely on the right track.

Go Beto you got support in Nueva York.

Thank God for Mayor Cook. How stupid is our City Council? Can we get them out of there? They make us look like morons.

dedicated to el paso wrote:

Thank God for Mayor Cook. How stupid is our City Council? Can we get them out of there? They make us look like morons.

If we all use our ONE VOTE and vote them out, the next election is in May, I believe, perhaps we can get some responsible leadership back in our city.

I'm amazed at the childish behavior on this thread. This is a very serious issue that desperately need dealt with.

To sit and proclaim this drug policy a success, one worth continuing is a slap in the face of reality.

I want to ask the question I've posed to the drug czar, to every elected official I've encountered:

"Can you name the number one success of the drug war?"

(You'd think it would have one, eh?)

94 years since the passage of the Harrison Narcotic Act, 36 million arrests, more than a trillion dollars spent trying to stop the flow, more than ten trillion flowing to the terrorists, cartels, paramilitary's and street corner vendors selling drugs to our children.

So, where's the success?

This is a YouTube video I produced that showcases the Texas cops and others who think its time to think about legalization:

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

get real, Jerome, the debate is about your city council taking a position supportive of at least considering legalizing drugs. I made a comment suggesting that marijuana prohibition is alcohol supremacist bigotry. My earlier posts gave solid reasons for thinking this. Unless someone can explain how marijuana is as dangerous or more dangerous than alcohol, bigotry is exactly what it is, trashing people not for their individual actions but only as part of some group you hate.
All you and the 'why drugs are bad' post did was make an ad hominem attack devoid of substance. Why does you try dealing with substance for a change: the dangers of alcohol vs. marijuana.
Alcohol, the drug you want legal, kills more in a day than weed does in a year. That's the reality. Marijuana prohibition kills, that's another reality.

Drug Dealers rule says "Yeah let's just legalize the **** and get everyone hooked, so we can make more money and control more turf." Is your sarcasm serious? If weed or hard drugs were legalized the gangs won't have any adult customers any more and a much more united community would have a much better chance of keeping it from kids than under the current low grade civil war conditions. It's prohibition that it is empowering the gangs to such an incredible extent.

Legalize Hell:

Hell is what prohibition has brought to Mexico and many other places.

Most of the hell drug addicts create for the rest of us comes from crime they commit to pay prohibition black market prices. If hard drugs were legal, most of the hell they create would be for themselves, the way it should be.

Alcohol users are far more adept than marijuana users at creating hell. You know, murders and suicides, beating and raping women and children, driving lethally drunk, women siccing fetal alcohol syndrome on their own children.

Hey Bill Robinson, do you really believe marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol? Alcohol is the primary cause of death for more than 50,000 people a year in this country and a contributing factor for many more, and many of those people were innocent victims of alcoholics. Marijuana related deaths are flat out rare. You have any evidence marijuana is as dangerous or more dangerous than alcohol? Or just prejudices?

drugging yourself: how come you didn't include megakiller alcohol in your list of harmful drugs?

People against the legalization of marijuana will continue to adamantly be against it because of it's perceived evil. The hypocrisy of most of the arguments here amazes me. People are against the legality of a natural plant, yet they most likely drink alcohol, which can kill you if you have too much at once. How does that make any sense?
How does it make sense that it is difficult for a high school student to purchase liquor, but even middle school students are able to and currently buying weed. They are able to get their hands on it BECAUSE it is illegal; it has no regulations whatsoever because it isn't sold in an established business. Maybe if we legalized it, it would more difficult for teens to get their hands on.
If we legalized it, we'd immediately have a new flow of legitimate cash into our economy while law enforcement could stop spending millions of dollars trying to prevent it.
Good, harmless people would stop going to jail. Being illegal is not stopping people from using it. MARIJUANA IS THE TOP U.S. CASH CROP. Maybe we could start growing it more here, in the U.S., so people who use marijuana could stop financing the violent cartels in Mexico.
Really, everyone put your stern opinions aside, find the facts yourself, and honestly examine the issue. Is marijuana any worse than alcohol? You can die from an alcohol overdose, yet it IS legal.
Think about it.

legal dope pushers: sorry boss, but if a highly dangerous drug like alcohol that causes so many deaths is legal, you have no right to trash people's lives because they prefer weed. That is so not the American way to treat people.

Drug prohibition is the exact same thing as alcohol prohibition. It has made the drug problems worse and creates violence on our streets. Gangs, cartels, and terrorists are funded by the illegal drug trade.

The more dangerous a drug is, the more important it is to have discussions surrounding its policy.

I can't get over how many people on this thread think that simply talking about alternatives to the war on drugs, a war that literally takes money out of tax payer pockets and supplies dangerous cartels with billions of dollars, means that you must be on drugs or a druggie.

I've worked as a counselor with young people who have drug problems and I'm very concerned about drug availability and abuse. Every kid I counseled said that marijuana and illegal drugs were even easier and cheaper to get than legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco. Drug dealers don't ask for ID and they are happy to sell to whoever will buy. There are no regulations.

Tobacco use in the U.S. is declining every year and less young people are picking up the habit. We did that without making the drug illegal, arresting anyone, or killing anyone. On the other hand, more young people are now smoking marijuana than tobacco!

This isn't about being a liberal or a conservative or a legal drug user vs. an illegal drug user. Its about evaluating policy and reforming those that have not worked. That can only happen through discussion - something that no person with common sense should be afraid to have.

Legalizing drugs will not solve the drug addiction/abuse problem - it will solve the violence and disease problems associated with prohibition. It will make drug treatment and education/prevention programs more accessible and better funded - treatment is much more cost effective than incarceration.

I think its great that the council put that last step in. Legalizing drugs is the last thing cartels want. Cartels and drug dealers love prohibition! If anything, the council could even be in danger for approving discussion of a measure that threatens the income of these cartels.

A real topic - instead of discussing the potential collateral effect of the economy on the city, words and debate on a topic that already is having a negative affect on the cities youth as borne out in two recent police reports

Casual or more than casual users of illegal drugs in the USA and everywhere are the sponsers and financial backers of terroristic organizations. Allowing individuals to grow their own for personal use would 'reduce' the amount of money ending up in the hands of businesses responsible for murder.

So what is Mayor Cook's solution to ending the Cartel murders? The Mexican police failed, the Mexican army failed, what does Mayor Cook propose Mexico do to end the brutal murders directly caused by OUR prohibition policy?

While he sleeps peacefully in his bed at night, innocent people are murdered, beheaded and mutilated in order to protect the Cartel's drug incomes. Drug incomes that only exist because of OUR prohibition on the legal sale of marijuana and other illicit drugs.

We **can't** end the demand for marijuana in our country but we can end the demand for the Cartel's marijuana! And when we do that the murders they're committing to protect the billions they receive from its sale will immediately end.

The Council got it right.