Addiction and drug use are medical/mental health issues, not criminalization/imprisonment issues.
It's difficult to pick the most destructive of America's many senseless, futile and tragically needless wars, but the "War on Drugs" is near the top of the list. Prohibition of mind-altering substances has not just failed--it has failed spectacularly, and generated extremely destructive and counterproductive consequences.
What was the result of the Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s? Prohibition instantly criminalized 40+% of the adult populace and created hugely profitable criminal organizations.
What was the result of the "War on Drugs"? This modern-day Prohibition instantly criminalized large swaths of the adult populace and created hugely profitable criminal organizations.
If you want to increase drug use, criminalize innocent citizens and spawn gargantuan criminal organizations, then by all means declare "war" via Prohibition. The results of Prohibition/War on Drugs are so visibly perverse and so destructive that the entire enterprise is sickeningly Orwellian.
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I agree with the article.
ReplyDeleteThe war on drugs is totally fake.
The government is selling the drugs and have been caught red-handed bringing cocaine (Clintons & Bushes)(CIA with crack) into this country. Right now the CIA / Military is importing the heroin into the Country from Afghanistan.
It is a criminal enterprise.
The prison system is now "for profit" and privately owned.
There are many many stories of judges being bribed to hand out prison sentences to people and getting paid by the corporation who owns the prisons.
War means kill, so really start killing everyone caught with illegal drugs, this will end really quick when dealers,and users, are all executed dead on the streets.
ReplyDeleteBLM will change to DLM Druggies Lives Matter, but war is war.
Blm joke imma make a shirt saying shampoo matters
ReplyDeleteConditioner matters
Food matters
Animals matters
O n tp 4 sure matters
Bunch of reatards bloking roads not w me b a bunch of froggers that loose that game lol thats how u move em