Bali 9 Executed For Drug Smuggling

In the war on drugs many an American believe the War on Drugs has been lost

Fighting it in terms of DEA corruption, crowded jails, gang and cartel violence has come   at too great a cost

The rumble we hear is the barriers against the use of marijuana beginning to crumble

The drive to ban drugs and send the users to prison starts to stumble

While in the U.S. increasingly the debate over the legalization of drugs is becoming passionate and loud

Whether marijuana for medical or recreational use should be allowed

Evidence on damage to the user’s mind and body is still not completely in

Despite the NORML pitch on less harmful than alcohol or smoking spin

Worries on lack of drive and energy seem to be beginning to abate

As more and more people even those not in sweet perfume are looking to the State

Heroin is much harder to debate but methadone seems to prevail

Still our users are dying in droves on the OD needled trail

Meth is a different animal and ages a person at hyper speed

Rotting the teeth and destroying a lot of the cranial capacity to prosper we need

Some debate over the harshness of penalties especially when it comes crack

Too many black youth and men on a one way prison track

Prison time yes but sentences are being cut back

But the death penalty for drugs we rightfully lack.

In Indonesia against the drug smuggling death penalty there are few opposing voices

Only stand, kneel or sit are a condemned drug smuggler’s only choices

Today the Bali Nine had their rendezvous with a firing squad

Despite pleas from the governments of Australia and France, the Indonesians’ desire    to execute never thawed

One would hope the condemned had blind folds; facing rifles so close one could not miss the heart

That the command was visual and at the same time all of the Bali Nine would from this earth depart

Also that this execution might in the future smuggling reduce

                        If not, bring opponents of the death penalty home to roost

Better yet, encourage debate on why its use should be not a cause for death or jail

When history tells us Prohibition of drugs or alcohol is doomed to fail

                                                                   © April 29, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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