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Anyone who has spent any time on this forum can see Americans are addicted to being right, even if there are no facts to support their beliefs.
President Richard Nixon coined the phrase "War on Drugs" in 1971, but the war has actually been waged for about a century now. And it has been a disaster.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
All the War on Drugs has achieved is the creation of the world's worst per capita prison population and an enormously rich and powerful criminal drug cartel industry.
The World Prison Brief’s data estimates the U.S. incarceration rate at 639 inmates per 100,000 people as of 2018, or 13% higher than the rate of the next-closest country, El Salvador (564 inmates per 100,000 people).
www.pewresearch.org
We should have learned our lessons from the alcohol Prohibition era, but we didn't.
It's time to start looking at alternative ideas to this problem.
Should we decriminalize all drugs? Should we start looking seriously at putting more effort into harm reduction programs?
What we have been doing is clearly not working.
President Richard Nixon coined the phrase "War on Drugs" in 1971, but the war has actually been waged for about a century now. And it has been a disaster.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
All the War on Drugs has achieved is the creation of the world's worst per capita prison population and an enormously rich and powerful criminal drug cartel industry.
The World Prison Brief’s data estimates the U.S. incarceration rate at 639 inmates per 100,000 people as of 2018, or 13% higher than the rate of the next-closest country, El Salvador (564 inmates per 100,000 people).
America’s incarceration rate falls to lowest level since 1995
The nationwide incarceration rate is 810 prison or jail inmates for every 100,000 adult residents ages 18 and older.
www.pewresearch.org
We should have learned our lessons from the alcohol Prohibition era, but we didn't.
It's time to start looking at alternative ideas to this problem.
Should we decriminalize all drugs? Should we start looking seriously at putting more effort into harm reduction programs?
What we have been doing is clearly not working.
