Does America need another drug czar?

[danielpalos]

Absolutely not.

The War On Drugs has been totally counterproductive for all but a few beneficiaries such as the pharmaceutical industry, the liquor industry, the legal profession, the prison industrial complex, the law-enforcement complex, the drug-testing industry, the drug cartels and the corrupted political representatives who continue to vote for continuance of this obviously failed and harmful fiasco.

"Attempting to solve a problem by doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity." (Albert Einstein) In this example the repetition does not reflect insanity but rather conspicuous corruption.

The same could be said about the war on poverty, but as the far left implements their policies, people seem to stay poor and the rich get richer.

So based on this logic the war on poverty should be abandoned.

The left is working on it. A basic income is from the left. The right only has a, "work or die" ethic.

 

[danielpalos]

They never were at war.

If they US were serious about the drug problem, they would have sealed off the border long ago, conducted drone strikes against the drug lords, and instituted the death penalty for dealers.

They would also not just go patch up drug users at tax payer expense without paying some price for breaking the law.

What are your thoughts on alcohol Prohibition?

I ask you this because that bit of authoritarian madness was fundamentally the same thing as the War On Drugs. Fortunately government had the good sense to end that fanatical oppression and to acknowledge there is no way to effectively prohibit something so many citizens want to do without threatening to violate the most basic principles of Freedom and Liberty.

Considering that beverage alcohol is as much a "drug" as is any other presently illegal mind-altering substance, the critical factor in deploying law-enforcement against drug use is drug use is a victimless "offense." There are many things that people do which can cause them harm, such as playing football, climbing mountains, sky-diving, and more. Should there be laws against those activities as well?

In the same way as alcohol Prohibition served the interests of bootleggers and gave rise to powerful criminal syndicates, drug prohibition serves the interests of "dealers" and has given rise to "cartels" which are infinitely more powerful than any of the Prohibition-era mobs. And the reason the drug war is continuously enabled in spite of the glaringly obvious harm its done to the fabric of our society is the corruption of those government representatives who vote to keep it alive.

We have to pick our battles. Alcohol has no where near the devastating effect drugs like heroin have on society.

Countries like Singapore have shown us how to wage war on such drugs. It is then a matter of having the will to do so. As has been said, the will to do so simply is not there, but don't say it can't be done. America just does not give a damn.

Only in right wing fantasy. Prohibition failed as a Bad idea in those then, modern times.

Why does the right wing believe we have a perceived need for alleged, wars on crime, drugs, and terror.

 

[danielpalos]

Absolutely not.

The War On Drugs has been totally counterproductive for all but a few beneficiaries such as the pharmaceutical industry, the liquor industry, the legal profession, the prison industrial complex, the law-enforcement complex, the drug-testing industry, the drug cartels and the corrupted political representatives who continue to vote for continuance of this obviously failed and harmful fiasco.

"Attempting to solve a problem by doing the same thing over and over and over and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity." (Albert Einstein) In this example the repetition does not reflect insanity but rather conspicuous corruption.

The same could be said about the war on poverty, but as the far left implements their policies, people seem to stay poor and the rich get richer.

So based on this logic the war on poverty should be abandoned.

I believe that to be a half arsed war as well. Government does not want you richer, they want you dependent. That was the whole point of the leftist war on poverty, it was to make more people dependent.

The far left needs the rich so they can control the poor and claim that the government is looking out for them and protecting them from those evil rich people.

News flash: Most of the NFL players are part of the evil rich people!

lol. Some on the left want to Tax the Rich, into Heaven.

 

[danielpalos]

The same could be said about the war on poverty, but as the far left implements their policies, people seem to stay poor and the rich get richer.

So based on this logic the war on poverty should be abandoned.

By what system of reasoning do you compare the War On Drugs with the War On Poverty?

Has the War On Poverty cost the taxpayers well over a trillion dollars since its inception? Is it responsible for imprisoning, thereby ruining the lives of more than a million Americans, most of whom were otherwise law-abiding, productive citizens? Is it responsible for giving rise to several powerful criminal cartels?

While it may be said that the War On Poverty does nothing, the War On Drugs does a lot -- all of it costly, counterproductive, and destructive.

What I don’t get is why , if they won’t give it up, why not enlist the legal marijuana growers to help out? Sell them on funding the wall for instance. Pot is the Narco’s bread and butter.

A wall does not generate revenue. A market friendly visa with potential work permission, does.

 

[Crixus]

The same could be said about the war on poverty, but as the far left implements their policies, people seem to stay poor and the rich get richer.

So based on this logic the war on poverty should be abandoned.

By what system of reasoning do you compare the War On Drugs with the War On Poverty?

Has the War On Poverty cost the taxpayers well over a trillion dollars since its inception? Is it responsible for imprisoning, thereby ruining the lives of more than a million Americans, most of whom were otherwise law-abiding, productive citizens? Is it responsible for giving rise to several powerful criminal cartels?

While it may be said that the War On Poverty does nothing, the War On Drugs does a lot -- all of it costly, counterproductive, and destructive.

What I don’t get is why , if they won’t give it up, why not enlist the legal marijuana growers to help out? Sell them on funding the wall for instance. Pot is the Narco’s bread and butter.

A wall does not generate revenue. A market friendly visa with potential work permission, does.

Yeah, it's been so great so far. The only reason you want wet backs is so you don't give to mow your yard and you are to cheap to pay a kid to do it. In short, you labs have replaced black slaves with brown ones.