Do You Believe The War On Drugs Should Be Terminated?

[MikeK]

If not, why not?

If you believe there is a more intelligent and potentially effective way to deal with the abuse of recreational drugs, tell us what you have in mind.

Do you believe some recreational drugs can be used without risk of seriously harmful effects? If so, which ones?

 

[Agit8r]

That war on drugs is just to give the CIA a monopoly on distributing drugs to fund their secret wars.

Kerry Committee report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Slyhunter]

victimless crimes should not be criminalized. We don't jail people for drinking, we jail them for driving under the influence, we jail them for stealing to pay for alcohol, but we don't jail them for drinking. Same should be for drugs.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Case ya havent noticed prosecutions are down while overdoses skyrocket.....and more dealers get let out of jail all the time by Obama

 

[Slyhunter]

Case ya havent noticed prosecutions are down while overdoses skyrocket.....and more dealers get let out of jail all the time by Obama

I wasn't talking about Dealers. Dealers victims are the users thus not victimless crimes.
The users shouldn't be sent to jail and our jails are full of them. Releasing 19 or so of them every now and then doesn't make a dent.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Dealers are getting out too

 

[Slade3200]

If not, why not?

If you believe there is a more intelligent and potentially effective way to deal with the abuse of recreational drugs, tell us what you have in mind.

Do you believe some recreational drugs can be used without risk of seriously harmful effects? If so, which ones?

Yes, the war should be terminated by making drugs legal... Think about it... It would defund the gangs, clear the jails, create jobs, and open up a ton of revenue that can go towards the most effective ways to decrease drug use... Health care and education.

 

[Disir]

If not, why not?

If you believe there is a more intelligent and potentially effective way to deal with the abuse of recreational drugs, tell us what you have in mind.

Do you believe some recreational drugs can be used without risk of seriously harmful effects? If so, which ones?

The Harm Reduction Method. You will never see that here fully implemented. If there is one thing that is true, this country will operate half-assed and then bitch cry when they don't see the same results. People talk about treatment but they don't delve into it--as if there is some unified plan. The only unified plan is to do the least that can be done.

People also like to think that this is all about smoking a blunt on the stoop or doing a line of coke in the bathroom stall of some club. This is all about one individual being harmed in the process. I've seen some jacked up shit but one of the worst was a parent that taught their child to shoot up heroin. Meth labs? Flakka? Spice?

I'm all for decriminalizing smaller amounts but I am absolutely for nailing larger amounts. I am not ok with legalization.

 

[Anathema]

No. We actually need to start treating it as a WAR, not a police action. Shoot first. Take no prisoners. Eradicate all eneny elements at all leveks of the chain of command. Collateral damage is unfortunate but necessary.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

If not, why not?

If you believe there is a more intelligent and potentially effective way to deal with the abuse of recreational drugs, tell us what you have in mind.

Do you believe some recreational drugs can be used without risk of seriously harmful effects? If so, which ones?

The war on marijuana was blatantly clearly self evidently a racist law aimed at Black folks and foreign workers..

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

No. We actually need to start treating it as a WAR, not a police action. Shoot first. Take no prisoners. Eradicate all eneny elements at all leveks of the chain of command. Collateral damage is unfortunate but necessary.

we should start with shooting white wealthy Oxycontin abusers like Rush Limbaugh

 

[Anathema]

we should start with shooting white wealthy Oxycontin abusers like Rush Limbaugh

That works for me. Then on to anyone who has ever even SEEN a joint.

 

[Slade3200]

If not, why not?

If you believe there is a more intelligent and potentially effective way to deal with the abuse of recreational drugs, tell us what you have in mind.

Do you believe some recreational drugs can be used without risk of seriously harmful effects? If so, which ones?

The Harm Reduction Method. You will never see that here fully implemented. If there is one thing that is true, this country will operate half-assed and then bitch cry when they don't see the same results. People talk about treatment but they don't delve into it--as if there is some unified plan. The only unified plan is to do the least that can be done.

People also like to think that this is all about smoking a blunt on the stoop or doing a line of coke in the bathroom stall of some club. This is all about one individual being harmed in the process. I've seen some jacked up shit but one of the worst was a parent that taught their child to shoot up heroin. Meth labs? Flakka? Spice?

I'm all for decriminalizing smaller amounts but I am absolutely for nailing larger amounts. I am not ok with legalization.

Legalization not only funds education and rehabilitation but it also adds regulation to the quality of product and dramatically hinders the underground/black market.

Do you really think just throwing poor addicts in jail is more effective?

 

[Skull Pilot]

If not, why not?

If you believe there is a more intelligent and potentially effective way to deal with the abuse of recreational drugs, tell us what you have in mind.

Do you believe some recreational drugs can be used without risk of seriously harmful effects? If so, which ones?

A resounding FUCK YES

The war on drugs has costs trillions of dollars and countless lives and has not done a single fucking thing to reduce drug use

ALL drugs should be legalized and some of the billions upon billions of dollars saved can be used for rehab programs

 

[MikeK]

Case ya havent noticed prosecutions are down while overdoses skyrocket.....and more dealers get let out of jail all the time by Obama

The reason for heroin overdoses is heroin has not been made available to addicted users as part of a withdrawal program as it has been in Switzerland and the Netherlands -- where the rate of overdose is virtually zero.

Heroin addiction can be maintained with very little negative or disabling effect and withdrawal is a relatively simple, gradual process. Usage by those who do not wish to withdraw can be safely maintained as a preferable alternative to our existing law-enforcement approach to the problem, which is totally counterproductive.

 

[MikeK]

Dealers are getting out too

Today's "drug dealers" are the precise equivalent of yesterday's alcohol "bootleggers." The difference is then we had the intelligence to understand and apply a workable solution to the problem. Today we just keep on doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result -- which is one definition of insanity.

Having been observing its constantly repetitive failure and brutally destructive consequences for over three decades, who can deny the War On Drugs is anything other than insane and/or glaringly corrupt?

 

[Katzndogz]

There has never been a war on drugs. It's a sound bite, a phrase that sounds good.

 

[Skull Pilot]

There has never been a war on drugs. It's a sound bite, a phrase that sounds good.

They sure as shit spend money on it though

 

[Katzndogz]

There are families destroyed by addicts. Then the addict dies. The destruction stops. There is a period of mourning but the healthy go on. Heroin overdoses just don't happen enough.

 

[martybegan]

If not, why not?

If you believe there is a more intelligent and potentially effective way to deal with the abuse of recreational drugs, tell us what you have in mind.

Do you believe some recreational drugs can be used without risk of seriously harmful effects? If so, which ones?

A resounding FUCK YES

The war on drugs has costs trillions of dollars and countless lives and has not done a single fucking thing to reduce drug use

ALL drugs should be legalized and some of the billions upon billions of dollars saved can be used for rehab programs

The War on Drugs was bound to fail because, like all vice based laws, it attacks the supply and only gives token lip service to reducing the demand.

With demand there will always be supply, and the more you do to stop it, the more lucrative you make it, which adds to the supply.

Someone is going to have to make the hard choices to end all this, I just don't see the balls for it from either side.