Bonston
Since Nov 2, 2017
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?
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.
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....
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.
Except for the local constabulary who get all the marvelous toys to prosecute said 'war' as a nearly fully militarized force.
The author apparently hasn't seen the dead victims of drugged drivers. The article is crap.
Are addictive drugs bad? Yes.
But addictive drugs of unknown potency are worse.
Addictive drugs of unknown nature and potency are worse still.
The police and prosecutors have tried hard, but their will be recreational drug dealers as long as recreational drugs fetch high prices or poverty exists in the USA.
Neither a war on poverty or on drug dealers can be won.
One needs to accept addiction and work to make the supply of recreational drugs of controlled quality as the utmost priority.
Drug overdoses are never accidental - they are the result of public policy.
If people want to taper off opiates, methadone treatment is possible. If they don’t, their fixes must be non-lethal.
The 86 amnesty and the War on Drugs (really a war on civil liberties) were two of Reagans’ biggest mistakes.