Notice how all the commission's big name members are 'former' heads of state. That's because when they were in power they were under tremendous pressure from the US drug warriors and they knew if they tried to stand-up against the puritanical US crap they'd soon be being overthrown by the CIA. Now though even the current heads of state throughout Latin America, having suffered the brunt of the costs in lives and freedoms lost, are standing up on their hind legs and speaking the truth to the religiously dominated ultra-right wing Canadian and US drug warrior hypocrites.
Obama between '04 and '08, before needing as many evangelical votes as he could muster, made many public speeches denouncing the 'War on Drugs', especially the continued prohibition against marijuana possession. The U.S. war on drugs has cost Americans, on average, $69 billion a year for the past 35 years and led to 37 million arrests for nonviolent drug offences, now Canada's Harper government is following in their idiotic footsteps with its new Bill C-30 which, among other regressive moves, legislates mandatory minimum sentences for small time marijuana users and growers.
One excellent source of information on the real story behind Canada and the US's 'War on Drugs' is Jack Herrer's site 'The Emperor Wears no Clothes'. Though Jack died a while back his wife Jeanie maintains the site's daily news area and continues the good fight against the evil empire. It will be fun to watch Obama and Harpo squirm at the upcoming 'Summit of the Americas' in Cartagena. Hopefully there'll be lots of youtube coverage of the event and lots of pressure on Obama and our Canadian ass-kissing PM Harpo to join the rest of the hemisphere in sanity instead of their current policy of insanity eh.
