What Do You Think About the United States’ “War on Drugs”?
Question by Nuclear Fusion: What do you think about the United States’ “War on drugs”?
Our drug laws have been the reason most of our prison and jail space is now occupied by people who have been “busted” for “possession” of an “illegal” (or “controlled”) substance. Do you think we are “winning” the war on drugs, or, do you believe it’s time for drug reform to change our laws? What about the “prohibition” days- should we apply those lessons of “yesterday” to the present?
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Answer by deljack05
The US is losing the war on drugs. There are still just about anything you want on the streets of the little town I live in. I can’t even imagine how it is in the bigger cities.
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We are losing, we normally only arrest users, very few sellers and almost never the big sellers. We do deals in counries like Afganistan and now have more poppies than ever before. We can’t or wont stop nearly a million people from comming into the US illegaaly, are we even close to stoping some drugs
I think we’re losing, trust me I live in Chicago. If we wanna win this we’re gonna have to attack the source like we did in the 80’s, the Columbian Rebels.
It is waaay past time for drug reform. Look at mexico, they can take a hint. They realize the war on drugs is total and pitiful failure, and theyve just recently legalized small quantities of almost every single drug. Heroin, pot, X, etc. Small quantities are decriminalized, now that makes some sense. Just like in Holland. The harms of the war on drugs are much bigger than the benefits. Ive been on and around the drug scene long enough to know that the war on drugs will never be won. All too many times Ive seen busts and people going to jail and the very next day theres already new dealers and buyers out on the street. So yeah, time for drug reform and sorry for ranting.
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If the price of prescription medicines were brought into the buying range of the average consumer, they would not have to patronize a foreign market or the “street pharmacists”. If drugs that alleviate the symptoms of glaucoma, like marijuana and some other drugs that are currently sold only by “street pharmacists”, could be obtained legally, many of the dangerous dilutions with other narcotic drugs could be controlled and they could be safely sold only to patients who needed them. Drugs would no longer be considered a luxury. It is time for our drug reform laws to make changes because we are currently, losing the war on drugs.
There cannot be a victory for the U.S. “War on Drugs” until there is intelligent and comprehensive changes to the laws. But more than that a change of attitudes moving drug use to a medical issue rather than leaving it a legal issue. Now we criminalize drug use, filling up jails with addicts. Social costs are extremely high. If we instituted needle exchange programs, prescriptions for drugs including heroin to addicts who must register, and provided counseling and other support services to users on a multiagency level, then we would see crime organizations go bankrupt because customer base for illegal drugs would diminish, users could pursue a more normal existance, public health costs would go down, and it would steer users away from prison and crime. check out the “Merceyside Model”.
locking up drug users is not the best way to deal with it