This is a transcript from a recent town hall meeting I was invited to speak at here in Overgaard"
I'd like to start this meeting off with a bang and come right out with what I came here to say to all you kind folks in attendance this evening. I'd like to propose that the government legalize drugs in the United States.
Uncomfortable silence from the crowd.
Let me be very clear, I am in no way condoning nor encouraging drug use, but it's high time, no pun intended, that we admit that there is no way of winning the so called "war on drugs". It's just not going to happen.
Angry murmurs and squeaks from shifting chairs at the back of the auditorium.
A number of countries have decided to decriminalize drugs in an effort to ease prison populations and to free up police forces for more pressing problems such as violent crime. Take Portugal for instance"They raised the hackles of fellow European nations in 2001, after announcing they were decriminalizing the use and possession of all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Many thought the Portuguese had simply gone mad. What the hell were they possibly thinking? Police officers were ordered not to arrest anyone seen taking any type of drug.
A woman in the audience faints dead away.
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