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Permalink Reply by Morgan Matthew on January 21, 2011 at 11:18am

Fox: "How many Police Brutality stories will it take for us to realize that the war on drugs is far more brutal than drug use itself..."

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Permalink Reply by Loop Johnny on January 21, 2011 at 6:10pm

The quote clears a lot of things in my mind.

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Permalink Reply by justin gold on January 21, 2011 at 11:41am

I tend to agree with you Cass.

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Permalink Reply by Michael R on January 21, 2011 at 6:01pm

I would rather see our society deal with the problems of blanket legalization than not dealing with the problems of illegal drugs (the current situation).

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Permalink Reply by MightyMateo on January 21, 2011 at 7:09pm

I agree completely, why repeat history, we already learned our lesson.  Cocaine and other drugs were freely available for consumer purchase at any store and it became a huge problem.....No need to go there again.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 25, 2011 at 8:23am

"Cocaine and other drugs" were never made illegal because of any "huge problem".

 

They were made illegal for strictly political purposes.

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Permalink Reply by justin gold on January 25, 2011 at 8:42am

Well please tell me T A A,What then was the reason for the opium wars?

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 25, 2011 at 8:58am

Yes indeed,  how were the Anglo-Chinese wars NOT political events, hmmm. A few generations earlier after the Confucian philosophy/religion had declared being stoned to be unConfucian... more politics. It's always politics.

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Permalink Reply by Mo Trauen on January 23, 2011 at 9:56am

Statistically, there is no doubt that a significant portion of the population is not, and perhaps can never be, responsible.  The only question is whether there is reason to believe that portion is significantly large with regard to a particular behavior and what harm will result because of that from each of the public policy choices.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on January 25, 2011 at 8:00am

Homo sapiens have been using drugs since the 'dawn of times'. Only in the past few decades have they been illegal!!!!!

 

Coffee was illegal too when it was first introduced to Europe, political leaders of the time considered it as a political agitator and destabiliser.

 

I totally agree that the education system needs a lot of improvements. Maybe we could redirect all the prison and police money to improving education. Seems a lot sounder to me.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan E. Hoffman on January 21, 2011 at 12:36pm

If we can take the billions of dollars that we're spending on fighting drugs, and turn it towards education, then I think we'll be able to moderately improve the situation. However, knowing us, we'll probably just make it all legal at once.

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Permalink Reply by Loop Johnny on January 21, 2011 at 6:09pm

Didn't the same thing happened with the Prohibition ( where alcohol was illegal ). If you rank those substance on 'addictiveness' alcohol ranks top 3 ( top 1 and 2 being Heroine and Cocaine ). You can examine with your own eyes what alcohol does and extrapolate them with drugs also.

 

I am in a state of cognitive dissonance on this matter. I do not agree with drugs/alcohol/tobacco but my realist part kicks in and tells me that banning them makes things worst. I will monitor this thread more closely.

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