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The War on Drugs: A War Where Everybody is a Loser
CrowdH News ^ | 10/31/17 | Andreas Salmen

Posted on 11/02/2017 11:20:11 AM PDT by Bonston

The US government has created a business out of putting people in jail, a quite lucrative one at that. Privately run prisons thrive due to those minimum sentencing practices, while taxpayers pay for often disproportionately long prison times for people that are no immediate harm to anyone but themselves. And as a reaction those individuals are persecuted to the fullest extent, lives are being destroyed, and the nation’s workforce is diminished while the costs are paid by society.

Instead of a helping hand, the U.S. has introduced the tradition of handing out handcuffs to those related to drugs. And that is exactly what we have to talk about.

(Excerpt) Read more at crowdh.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: cannabis; justice; prisonsystem; warondrugs; wod
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A very thorough article on the war on drugs, I don't agree with all of it but there are valid points here I feel.
1 posted on 11/02/2017 11:20:11 AM PDT by Bonston
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To: Bonston

Bonston
Since Nov 2, 2017


2 posted on 11/02/2017 11:23:30 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The "God Gene" is evolution's way of saying "Chaos Sucks!")
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To: Bonston

Where do you draw the line?

Legalize pot - OK.

Legalize meth? 100% addictive from the first time you use it. It will destroy your life in a matter of months.

You really want that for sale at your local Wal-Mart?


3 posted on 11/02/2017 11:24:57 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Bonston
A very thorough article on the war on drugs, I don't agree with all of it but there are valid points here I feel.

It's not thorough at all. It is completely one sided and ignorant in it's premises, it's false equivalence and it's misstatements of the facts.

It did not at all explore what would have happened in the absence of a "war on drugs". We don't have to guess. We only have to look at what happened to China.

100 million dead because China lost their war on Drugs. Generations impoverished and suffering. Societal collapse and weakness. *THOSE* are the legacy of not fighting a war on drugs.

Did he mention China? Well then he's either ignorant or lying about the results.

Any fair analysis of the issue *has* to mention what happened in China from 1840 and subsequent years.

4 posted on 11/02/2017 11:29:54 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: 2banana
Legalize meth? 100% addictive from the first time you use it. It will destroy your life in a matter of months.

Absolute nonsense. Hysteria much?

5 posted on 11/02/2017 11:30:19 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: 2banana
Legalize pot - OK.

Agreed.

Legalize meth? 100% addictive from the first time you use it.

False - however, legalization of harder drugs can wait until we've turned pot policy back over to the states and learned what lessons there are from near-nationwide legalization.

6 posted on 11/02/2017 11:30:23 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: DiogenesLamp
China should be mentioned - as should the contrary experience of the USA in the 1800s.
7 posted on 11/02/2017 11:37:17 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

True.

Methamphetamine (meth or crystal meth) is considered one of the world’s most addictive drugs.

Stop with your lies.


8 posted on 11/02/2017 11:39:33 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

The question to ask is, would you do meth if it was legal? No probably not, most people won’t. Those who would will try it anyway legal or not, it’s not that hard to get a hold of.

Using all the money spent on actual measures to treat addicts and make sure once you get hooked you can make a recovery is far more beneficial, see the free heroin treatment facilities in the Netherlands, Canada or Switzerland. Legalization doesn’t mean it is available in wal mart necessarily, but it means revenue for the state and tighter control on potency as well as quality - something that has a severe positive impact on addiction as well.


9 posted on 11/02/2017 11:44:15 AM PDT by Bonston
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To: Bonston

You signed up today, and this is your only post.

Would you care to elucidate on your conservative credentials, or should we assume the worst?

If the former, welcome.

If the latter, well, my mama always said....


10 posted on 11/02/2017 11:45:48 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The "God Gene" is evolution's way of saying "Chaos Sucks!")
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To: 2banana

Nice walk-back.


11 posted on 11/02/2017 11:47:49 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: NobleFree
China should be mentioned - as should the contrary experience of the USA in the 1800s.

What contrary experience of the USA in the 1800s? Most of the US experience with drugs occurred after the civil war left so many former soldiers addicted to opiate pain killers, and awareness of drug addiction did not start in the US until the 1880s or so.

12 posted on 11/02/2017 11:54:37 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Uncle Miltie

Well, a conservative does not have to agree with EVERYTHING the conservatives consensus is or do you disagree on that? Sorry for having a mind of my own.


13 posted on 11/02/2017 12:05:56 PM PDT by Bonston
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To: Bonston

Hey, it’s okay to be a little libertarian,
just know when to fold ‘em.


14 posted on 11/02/2017 12:12:24 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Bonston

One small issue that seems to be universally ignored is that the federal government has absolutely no constitutional authority to prohibit drugs in the first place.

Why doesn’t anyone ever ask why it took a constitutional amendment for the federal gov’t to prohibit alcohol, yet now we seem to think that all they have to do is put a drug on some list somewhere and it is magically prohibitive.


15 posted on 11/02/2017 12:14:41 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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A War Where Everybody is a Loser

Except for the local constabulary who get all the marvelous toys to prosecute said 'war' as a nearly fully militarized force.

16 posted on 11/02/2017 12:20:58 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Sopater
One small issue that seems to be universally ignored is that the federal government has absolutely no constitutional authority to prohibit drugs in the first place.

The constitution imbues the Federal Government with the power to protect the United States from enemies, foreign and domestic. Drugs fall into that category.

17 posted on 11/02/2017 12:22:55 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

What’s to stop them from declaring you that enemy? Nice conservative answer. Who needs stinking checks and balances? It’s too damned hard to run a police state and try to stay within Constitutional limitations!


18 posted on 11/02/2017 12:30:17 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: DiogenesLamp
The constitution imbues the Federal Government with the power to protect the United States from enemies, foreign and domestic. Drugs fall into that category.

The hell they do. You could say that about tobacco and anything else, too. It's absurd.
19 posted on 11/02/2017 12:31:48 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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I don’t want drugs legalized if we all have to pay for addicts’ treatments. It’s like saying get the government out of marriage-when they get out of divorce, custody, alimony then they can get out of marriage. It’s a nice libertarian argument but we are so far down the rabbit hole of post constitutionalism that starting with drug legalization isn’t the best idea


20 posted on 11/02/2017 12:53:27 PM PDT by waverna
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