The Drug War has artificially raised the price of certain chemicals so that they are worth more than gold. There is so much profit that drug dealers have influence in every government in the world. Remember how much power criminals gained during alcohol prohibition and multiply that by at least 10,000. They have enough power to control the media, policy, EVERYTHING. Afghanistan was partially a war to secure opium supplies for the “right” people.
There is no way to stop such a demanded, profitable, easily made product short of 24/7 surveillance of everything. People even risk the death penalty because the profit is so mind boggling. Even prisons have no shortage of drugs because people will give anything for them.
The WOD basically turns addicts into an army of thieves for the cartels. They steal $10,000 from society to give $1,000 to a dealer for $10 worth of product. They don’t care about laws and risk their lives to get high. Then we spend trillions on enforcement and $50,000+ every year to put each of them in jail.
It would be cheaper for all of society to simply give the addicts all the chemicals they want along with 3 hots and a cot. Not only in terms of dollars, but also the priceless freedom/privacy we lost in this stupid WOD. Of course that will never happen since countless people make a good living by taking our money and our freedoms...
You’re right. California’s Prop 19 to legalize marijuana was stopped by pot GROWERS. They are making billions off of medical MJ and didn’t want to competition.
Prohibition breeds thieves.
Even the liberal pro-dopers here at FR acknowledge this. And yet they continue to blather on that more drugs is the answer. They want to surrender in the WOD and legalize them.
DRUGS FUEL CRIME.
This is a no-brainer - NSS statement that no one disagrees with. Yet the losertarians want to decriminalize and tax drugs They complain the high cost of drugs is at fault. "It would be cheaper for all of society to simply give the addicts all the chemicals they want..." even though they know that by increasing drug usage by millions of times will only INCREASE welfare dependency and crime rates.
Yeah, but.....