A group of more than 600 churches has joined a
small but growing movement within the religious community to call for an
end to the war on drugs through legalization.
The New England Conference of The United
Methodist Church, representing more than 600 congregations, voted last
month to support efforts to address the nation's drug abuse problem
through "means other than prohibition."
The resolution was passed during an annual
conference in which supporters argued that the war on drugs had
unintentionally left countless dead, overwhelmed courts and prisons,
wasted taxpayer money and destroyed innumerable families — most of them
black and Latino.
"To people of color, the 'War on Drugs' has
arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy
since slavery," the resolution says.
Full article available here: War on Drugs
Source: NBC News
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