If you violate the law you've given up your rights. This isn't an issue of rights. The government has the authority to make crimes punishable by death.
We are losing this war on drugs our country is fighting. If you want to talk about rights, think of what is happening under the current situation - seizing private property. If you are a landlord and someone is using your property to grow or sell drugs, you can lose your property. That's merely one example of the outrageous violations to the Constitution that our government is committing every day under the War On Drugs.
As many others here have pointed out, the WOD is so beneficial to the government in terms of the revenue it generates, there is no real desire to win. The government has interests in continuing the present state of affairs.
But the present state of affairs does nothing to stop drug use, it only allows the government to continue to grow, continue to invade the lives of individuals and violate our personal freedoms.
I believe a decision must be made to end the current state of affairs, and after significant time considering the options available to us, I am convinced that the only way we will win the War on Drugs is to impose the most severe punishment we can for those caught in possession of drugs.
I'm absolutely not joshing. I believe the present state of affairs is helping to grow our government and destroy our country from within.
So, we become a nation that executes tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands?
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
It is Sun Jun 18 2006
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Money Spent on the War On Drugs this Year
Federal $9,350,937,619
State $14,353,743,309
Total $23,704,833,150
The U.S. federal government spent over $19 billion dollars in 2003 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $600 per second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.
Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
State and local governments spent at least another 30 billion.
Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University: "Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State Budgets," January, 2001.
People Arrested for Drug Law Offenses this Year
Arrests for drug law violations in 2006 are expected to exceed the 1,678,192 arrests of 2003.
Someone is arrested every 20 seconds.
Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation
People Arrested for Cannabis Law Offenses this Year
In 2002, 45.3 percent of the 1,538,813 total arrests for drug abuse violations were for marijuana -- a total of 697,082.
Of those, 613,986 people were arrested for marijuana possession alone.
This is a slight decrease from 2000, when a total of 734,497 Americans were arrested for marijuana offenses, of which 646,042 were for possession alone
. Source: Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation
People Incarcerated for Drug Law Offenses this Year
Since December 31, 1995, the U.S. prison population has grown an average of 43,266 inmates per year. About 25 per cent are sentenced for drug law violations.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Well, my friend, with your Islamofacist-like suggestion/solution, we would be executing hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of our fellow citizens a year.
Good luck!!