Insults? You resort to “liar, liar, pants on fire” when you have nothing coherent to say. And I never EDITED a single word in the article, idiot (speaking of liars).
The argument that the “war on drugs” is ineffective and doesn’t reduce drug use and therefore we should legalize drugs is not something I made up. It is constantly made by the legalize drugs movement and echoed in the media.
Truth be told, it is a childish argument.
Unless someone takes the position that all substances of whatever nature should be legal for all people of whatever age or condition to produce, possess or give to other people, then one must get into the difficult matter of making distinctions among substances that are to be regulated and with respect to whom and how. Therefore, there will always be a “war on substances.”
Naturally, that is not simplistic enough for aging stoners and their clogged synapses to get their heads around. Any discussion of laws dealing with substance abuse evokes only an image in their minds of swat teams breaking into their living rooms and prying their bong out of their sweaty hands.
I pointed out that you creatively bolded text to bury the important part (thousands dead) and thus make the headline appear to say something it did not. Making something appear to say something it doesn’t is also known as lying. Sorry that bothers you, but if you don’t like it don’t do it.
And there you go again with your strawman lie. The argument is NOT that the WOD hasn’t stopped drug use so it should end. the argument IS that the WOD has a massive cost in dollars, destroyed elements of the Bill of Rights and lives AND has done nothing to curb drug use so it should end. The part you deliberately avoid both in your use of bold and replies is the COST. Everybody knows laws don’t eradicate behavior, the question before us is if the cost of enforcing those laws is worth their results. The WOD has a massive cost and NO results.
Truth be told the childish argument is the one of lying about the argument to erect a strawman.
Alcohol and tobacco are regulated with respect to whom and how without being in any war on them. Looks like you erected another strawman. Talk about thing not being simplistic enough for clogged synapses.
SWAT teams breaking into living rooms is an important image to have in your mind when talking about the WOD. Because that’s what the WOD has created, a world where SWAT teams bust doors down without knocking, search a premises, and THEN present a warrant that turns out to not actually be that house because they got the address wrong. Before the WOD they had to knock and present the warrant BEFORE entering. That’s part of that cost of the WOD thing you studiously ignore in your creative editing.
If you want to call our current policies with regard to the drugs alcohol and tobacco "wars," go ahead. The point is that those "wars" don't rob adults of their rights, cost taxpayers several tens of billions of dollars every year, crowd our prisons, or substantially enrich criminals - so those are the sorts of "wars" we should fight against other drugs.