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2021-03-22 Britain
‘These people are broken': Why the UK's war on drugs has failed
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Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-22 07:51|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Of course it's the Yanks to blame.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-22 07:53||   2021-03-22 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Back in the day, the Larouchies often had a table at the gun shows. They had a poster with a picture of Queen Elizabeth II and a caption that read "World's Biggest Heroin Dealer."
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-03-22 09:03||   2021-03-22 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 They blamed Margaret Thatcher for the "Criminalization" of the counterinsurgency action against the IRA. It's easier for pundits to advocate "soft diplomacy" when they are not directly suffering.
Posted by magpie 2021-03-22 10:31||   2021-03-22 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 The same bien pensants who didn’t care that that the children of the poor and working classes were being raped by Moslem colonists, the rich, the famous, and the powerful also didn’t care that the same children were growing up surrounded by easily available drugs to dull the pain of their lives.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-22 12:20||   2021-03-22 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Is there a war on drugs that hasn't failed?
Posted by DooDahMan 2021-03-22 12:47||   2021-03-22 12:47|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 Drug dependence treatment in China: A policy analysis
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-22 13:19||   2021-03-22 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Failed is one way to say it. Drugs won is another. Prohibition lost - like it always does -- is still another.
Posted by Angstrom 2021-03-22 13:47||   2021-03-22 13:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Has there ever actually been a war on drugs? No. Start napalming the drug fields, executing dealers, smugglers, and everyone above user who is involved and receives money or bribes and the users get flogged/caned in public, I suspect you might see an actual drop in usage.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-03-22 16:35||   2021-03-22 16:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Silentbrick, you're not supposed to advocate violence against our politicians. It might be OK to advocate sending them to prison.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-03-22 17:03||   2021-03-22 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Does Hunter Biden count?
He certainly deserves (at a minimum) a good horsewhipping
Posted by Clusosing Gonque3915 2021-03-22 17:14||   2021-03-22 17:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Silentbrick they tried that in Columbia in '92. The US sent "support" forces to help the Columbians destroy the coke fields and help bring down Escobar. It kinda worked, but once he was gone later in the decade the cartels just broke up into smaller pieces and were nearly impossible to destroy.

Unless you break the demand, cartels will thrive. Supply and demand at its basic level.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-03-22 18:00||   2021-03-22 18:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Just FYI, no violence was advocated against Americans. I have long advocated on here that JSOC treat the cartels as terrorists and have free reign to destroy them barring only the use of nuclear weapons. I have said so many times.
Posted by Cletch Flomble5149 2021-03-22 21:34||   2021-03-22 21:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Same reason it failed here. It was never intended to succeed. It was meant to be a political issue the pols can claim to support without having to actually do anything or solve anything. Bonus points of they make it worse. As well as for them to beat their opponent with.
They never intend to actually solve the 'War on _fill_in_the_blanks_'. Just look at 'War on Poverty' 'War on Drugs', 'War on Terror', etc... Its just a reason for them to spend billions without actually solving anything.
One of the reasons the left (and never-Trumpers) hated Trump is that he intended to actually solve some of these problems.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-03-22 23:53||   2021-03-22 23:53|| Front Page Top

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