The War On Drugs™ Is A Colossal Failure

[g5000]

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).

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.

 

[TNHarley]

Legalize it all. Period.

 

[Mac1958]

The term "The War on Drugs" is an insult to the word "war".

 

[Anathema]

We have never actually FOUGHT a War on Drugs. Until we actually start treating the War in Drugs like a WAR, we don’t know if it will end in victory or failure.

 

[Vastator]

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).

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.

On the contrary; “The War On Drugs”, has been a smashing success. That is why it is still ongoing, if not expanding. One just has to realize that the stated purpose, is quite different from its actual purpose.

 

[lennypartiv]

So the libs want weed legalized even though it's dangerous. Then these same liberals fight against using Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermecton to save lives of Covid patients.

 

[GMCGeneral]

So the libs want weed legalized even though it's dangerous. Then these same liberals fight against using Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermecton to save lives of Covid patients.

Liberals want an entire country of junkies.

 

[g5000]

Liberals want an entire country of junkies.

The War on Drugs has certainly achieved that.

 

[g5000]

The War on Drugs has been prosecuted across all Administrations and across all polarities of Congresses.

To no avail.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

On the contrary; “The War On Drugs”, has been a smashing success. That is why it is still ongoing, if not expanding. One just has to realize that the stated purpose, is quite different from its actual purpose.

^ This!

It's designed to reinforce a permanent, government dependent minority underclass

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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).

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.

Credit where due, great op!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Reefer Madness!

 

[petro]

Far past time to end Prohibition....


Again.

 

[BlindBoo]

They made people believe absurdities about the effects of xxx, therefore they were able to pass atrocious laws about xxx, and now the Gov. can arrest you for growing a plant in your own home.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They outlawed hemp ffs!!! It's not even a drug!!

 

[martybegan]

To all the lefties on this post bemoaning government overreach:

 

[g5000]

Reefer Madness!

I was actually going to link to that movie!

Particularly the piano-playing scene.

"Faster! Faster! Faster!"

 

[g5000]

Legalize it all. Period.

And then what?

 

[g5000]

The effects of marijuana cigarettes:

 

[g5000]

So the libs want weed legalized even though it's dangerous. Then these same liberals fight against using Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermecton to save lives of Covid patients.

Weed is far less addictive and dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes.

Alcohol-related deaths are the third leading cause of preventable deaths in the US.

Smoking is number one.

High blood pressure (obesity) is number two.

And yet we don't criminalize that kind of self-harm. Nor do we refuse spending gobs of money treating them.

Nor do you see a McDonald's franchisee going to prison for dealing Big Macs to fat bastards.