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Letters to the editor
Issue date: 4/24/09 Section: Ed-Op
Dear Editor,
Last week was Earth Week at Drexel, and it was nice to see an initiative for environmental protection that involved individuals rather than government intervention. Drexel Green sponsored many initiatives, including reducing use of bottled water, recycling plastic bags, cleaning up the campus, using electricity wisely and many other topics of interest. Comparing individual contributions to protection of the environment to government intervention makes sense. The government owns about 40 percent of the United States' land mass - which has been left polluted by the negligent Department of Energy and Defense and the U.S. Military. While not cleaning up its own property, the government continues to spend millions of tax dollars on regulation after regulation against the citizens.
Also, in celebration of last week's 4/20, a few facts on the war on drugs: 1,841,182 drugs arrests were made in America in 2007. If every American who has used illegal drugs was put in jail, 30 to 40 million people would be arrested, equaling the combined population of California, Arizona and New Mexico. The cost to jail these users would equal between $10 to $15 trillion. It costs, on average, $450,000 to put a drug dealer in jail. The budget would save $37 billion if drugs were legalized in America.
California is already looking into the legalization of marijuana to help boost its suffering economy. Perhaps legalization would stimulate the economy much more effectively than creating money out of thin air. Even though the government is considering taxing marijuana, if legalized, it would be a step toward freedom, dissolve the power to make useless arrests and energize the economy.
Stacy Litz
Sophomore, Political Science
Student Liberty Front
Dear Editor,
After attending the Campus Activities Board-sponsored program, "The Great Porn Debate" with adult movie star Ron Jeremy and porn Pastor Craig Gross, I was left wondering what Drexel students would take from this program. Porn is more main stream than ever, and many of the students in attendance were eager to display how well-versed they were in Mr. Jeremy's work, as well as in other forms of adult entertainment that even he was unaware of.
Last week was Earth Week at Drexel, and it was nice to see an initiative for environmental protection that involved individuals rather than government intervention. Drexel Green sponsored many initiatives, including reducing use of bottled water, recycling plastic bags, cleaning up the campus, using electricity wisely and many other topics of interest. Comparing individual contributions to protection of the environment to government intervention makes sense. The government owns about 40 percent of the United States' land mass - which has been left polluted by the negligent Department of Energy and Defense and the U.S. Military. While not cleaning up its own property, the government continues to spend millions of tax dollars on regulation after regulation against the citizens.
Also, in celebration of last week's 4/20, a few facts on the war on drugs: 1,841,182 drugs arrests were made in America in 2007. If every American who has used illegal drugs was put in jail, 30 to 40 million people would be arrested, equaling the combined population of California, Arizona and New Mexico. The cost to jail these users would equal between $10 to $15 trillion. It costs, on average, $450,000 to put a drug dealer in jail. The budget would save $37 billion if drugs were legalized in America.
California is already looking into the legalization of marijuana to help boost its suffering economy. Perhaps legalization would stimulate the economy much more effectively than creating money out of thin air. Even though the government is considering taxing marijuana, if legalized, it would be a step toward freedom, dissolve the power to make useless arrests and energize the economy.
Stacy Litz
Sophomore, Political Science
Student Liberty Front
Dear Editor,
After attending the Campus Activities Board-sponsored program, "The Great Porn Debate" with adult movie star Ron Jeremy and porn Pastor Craig Gross, I was left wondering what Drexel students would take from this program. Porn is more main stream than ever, and many of the students in attendance were eager to display how well-versed they were in Mr. Jeremy's work, as well as in other forms of adult entertainment that even he was unaware of.
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