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2020-11-10 Home Front: Politix

It's Time To Admit: Drugs Won The War On Drugs

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Posted by Iblis 2020-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 The problems of drugs mainly stem from those using them being self-medicating and outside.

I would say the best way to end the war on drugs and mitigate problems is to make sure those who take them become the responsibility of those who supply them
AND
while "high" the taker submits themselves at their own costs for the equivalent of psychiatric hospital.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-11-10 02:19|| 2020-11-10 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Sure, legalize it until the coke fiend, meth head, PCP berserker, heroin/fentanyl, etc... addict is someone in your family.

Posted by Thusoting Big Foot1716 2020-11-10 02:24|| 2020-11-10 02:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Hard to argue that the war on drugs has been anything but an abject failure.

Oh, wait to what happens when you do end it and the consequential impact upon society. Then you'll have a basis for comparative analysis. We ended Prohibition but we've lost more on our highways to DUI than we've lost in the wars since. That doesn't count other non-auto related deaths. It's a trade off. There is no perfect. However, please be honest about it, you are going to pay another way that probably will be just as destructive.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-11-10 07:00|| 2020-11-10 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Good. The metaphorical war on drugs was a b.s. "tough on crime" mantra, probably billions of dollars down the drain for what? To incarcerate people for victimless crimes? To assist the pharmaceutical-indusrial complex?

Posted by Clem 2020-11-10 07:43|| 2020-11-10 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 However, please be honest about it, you are going to pay another way that probably will be just as destructive

100%. There is a real cost to legalization. But I would argue that cost is substantially less than the cost of prohibition. I mean, there is a cost associated with alcohol consumption too. We just figured out those trade offs long ago.

Posted by Iblis 2020-11-10 09:34|| 2020-11-10 09:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Drug prohibition just ensured that drug addict is stealing from your family, it prevents nothing and drives crime.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-11-10 10:22|| 2020-11-10 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Big Foot1716: exactly! until they are someone in your family, imported Cocaine is a problem and a nasty drug, Meth is even worse, Fentanyl sometimes just "darwins" the user,problem solved. I'm at a loss as to how to prevent them doing the stuff.....

Posted by 746 2020-11-10 12:14|| 2020-11-10 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 The war on drugs was never any more than a slogan. The government never actually waged it. Just for show, now and again, they would announce a big drug bust. But the supply on the streets never dwindled.

Now, the question is, why won't Congress authorize a border wall? I suspect massive amounts of cartel cash finding its way into the bank accounts of politicians.

Trump was the only president in the history of this so-called war who tried to solve the problem and they all hate him for it. You have to wonder why.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-11-10 13:54|| 2020-11-10 13:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Your gun that has never hurt anybody is a huge problem, but hard drugs flooding the streets is no problem at all...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-11-10 15:32|| 2020-11-10 15:32|| Front Page Top

#10 But the FDA and Anti-Vaxxers will still have veto power on "safe" drugs.

Posted by magpie 2020-11-10 21:45|| 2020-11-10 21:45|| Front Page Top

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