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9/30/2018 7:43:42 PM
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Anyone agree that the “War” on drugs was an utter failure?
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Yes but only because of the current Policing system. Too many regulations and not harsh enough sentencing ensures they'll never ever be enough Policemen to fully curb the problem. More freedom to investigate and adopting a "shoot to kill" policy would curb the problem pretty quick. And before you go all "ERR they're people too!" remember some scabby skeleton scareing all the kids and swearing at everyone in the ER room is a bigger menace to society than a corpse.
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6 RepliesDoes anybody remember the D.A.R.E. program?
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There was a war on drugs man? Man, I must have been too stoned to notice.....
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2 Repliesmore money could have been made had the givernment regulated drugs instead of criminalizing everything...
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Wait you mean simply making something illegal doesn't make it go away all my liberal friends assure me that if something is illegal no one can get it and that's why we should outlaw guns
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[b]*HITS BLUNT*[/b]
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Edited by Uncanny_Vale: 10/1/2018 10:19:43 PMProhibition never works. You can’t criminalise human nature. Criminalising the drug trade ensures it remains unregulated and out of control. So if you can’t eliminate drug use the next best option is to regulate it. If it was a legal industry you could at least have health and safety legislation around the contents and potency of the drugs and you could take the industry out of the hands of criminal gangs.
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"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." John Ehrlichman, counsel to President Richard Nixon
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1 ReplyIts been a failure because of strategy...not intention. The War on Drugs has tried to deal with the problem of addiction and drug-trafficking as a LAW ENFORCEMENT (moral) problem instead of dealing with it as a PUBLIC HEALTH (medical) problem. So we've spent most of the last 50 years beating our heads against a wall trying to cut of the SUPPLY of drugs....and jailing both users and traffrickers..... ....while doing next-to-nothing to kneecap the DEMAND for drugs. So much of our addiction problems here in the US are people who are suffering form mental illness and other problems in coping with life stresses....and they are self-medicating in an effort to do what our laughably inadequate "mental health system" can't do for them....and should be doing for them. As long as the DEMAND for drugs is where it is (or worse, growing) SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE will always find a way to SUPPLY that demand. So the fight to interdict supply exclusively just becomes like that against the Lernean Hydra from Greek Mythology. You cut off the head of one cartel....two more grow from the stump.
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I still remember that one of Nixon's close allies flat-out said that the "war on drugs" was meant to be a way to pretty much criminalize being black in America or a being a hippie. The US government should take marijuana out of the Schedule System and have it placed in the ATF system so there can be more research done on the benefits/detriments of it, and see if it can be incorporated into regular medicinal use for patients who suffer from epilepsy, glaucoma, and other conditions that are applicable.
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Yep. These “wars” tend to be made on the people, and not the issue, and that’s why they fail.
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1 ReplyIf they want my drugs they'll have to pry them from my cold dead butt!
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2 RepliesNext up on "war on...." The war on SJWs
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Drugs are awesome.
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6 RepliesYa. People still think it’s cool while they waste their life away. We do need a way to get rid of all the idiots in this world tho...
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1 ReplyYep Also what’s next war on fortnite?
