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do drugs War or Hypocritical PoliciesAs of April 21, 2005, the U.S has spent $6,193,703,704 Federal dollars and $9,507,335,186 bow dollars1on the drug War in America. Has all of this money gone to superabundance or are we fighting the inevitable. I say the inevitable. We as Americans put one overt want the regimes side of EVERYTHING we have a say in what goes on in this country, dont we? If this is so why accordingly is this occurringIn 2000 it was discovered that the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy used financial incentives to get newspapers and magazines to editorialize in favor of the drug war and get TV and movie producers to transpose their scripts to reflect pro-drug war views. Court records show that Members of Congress created the federal governments first anti-drug advertising campaign in 1998 as a way of using billions of taxpayer dollars to influence voters to reject state medical marijuana ballot measures.2These people who claim to be trying to assistant America with the Drug War problem, are scribes and Pharisees as quoted from the Bible unless woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocritesfor ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against menfor ye uncomplete go in yourselves,neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.3As Chris Rock said on the movie mentality of State, How can you fight a war on drugs if you never have the chronic? These people dont understand how their choices because of their social rankings fall upon our teen age. We dont have the resources to get the drugs that others may be able to obtain. Especially the lower- class people who have limited elbow room so of course they are wanting the cheaper drugs, such as cocaine or heroine.