malcolm kyle

Just like the above post, our failed drug war is a never ending cycle of madness. American tax money is squandered supposedly squashing drug lords who simply grow ever richer and ever more powerful whilst filling the streets with even more drugs.

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Because Prohibition has created the conditions which have lead to a worsening of most of the problems we now see in society; with it's immense costs it has put us all in harms way and serves only to provide a profitable market for criminals and terrorists. It has been nothing but a plague or an experiment in how to divert intelligent energy away from dealing with the problem of addiction. It has wasted our resources whilst encouraging civil, judicial, and penal procedures associated with police states. Even calling it a drug war is grossly misleading; this is a war on all of us and everything the USA once stood for. Remove prohibition then regulate purity and measure whilst carding to protect minors.

I'd say hugo, snafu and yourself are pretty much on the right track. Not to much taxes though otherwise we'll just be playing into the hands of the illegal drug cartels.

With due respect Sir, I was referring not to all supporters of this "failed experiment" but to those "Vociferous Ignorant bullies" with their own nefarious short-sighted agenda who will invariably Ignore research, evidence and logic whilst lending their continuing support to "the war on drugs".

Thank you madamn for making my case for me.

There's nothing surprising about what happens during the debating of an important issue such as drug policy. Vociferous Ignorant bullies with their own nefarious short-sighted agenda will invariably Ignore research, evidence and logic. They will continue to voice their support for more arrests, harder punishments whilst boasting about record drug seizures that accomplish absolutely nothing; this unbroken chain of failure and willful blindness stretches back nine decades to the introduction of Prohibition. Good thing we still have who no longer wish to fund terrorists, the mob and street punks