Drug laws or Health Care

Russell Brand talking common-sense on drug laws.

Countries like Portugal and Switzerland that have introduced progressive and tolerant drug laws have seen crime plummet and drug-related deaths significantly reduced. We know this. We know this system doesn’t work – and yet we prop it up with ignorance and indifference. Why? Wisdom is acting on knowledge. Now we are aware that our drug laws aren’t working and that alternatives are yielding positive results, why are we not acting? Tradition? Prejudice? Extreme stupidity? The answer is all three. Change is hard, apathy is easy, tradition is the narcotic of our rulers. The people who are most severely affected by drug prohibition are dispensable, politically irrelevant people. Poor people. Addiction affects all of us but the poorest pay the biggest price.

This describes the futile efforts to fix the US heath care system too.

Change is hard, apathy is easy, tradition is the narcotic of our rulers.

Found at one of my favorite sites --> Political Irony › Tradition, Prejudice, or Extreme Stupidity?:
Original article here: The Guardian


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