Nonetheless, the "War on Drugs" hasn't done a thing to stop the use of them. In fact, as the post points out, the price of drugs is collapsing because the supply is so great.
Can conservatives admit that "The War on Drugs" is, perhaps, a bigger flop than the Democrats' "War on Poverty?"
Or should we continue to "create jobs" by throwing more money at it and feeling really good about how we're helping society?
The only price going up as a result of the War on (Some) Drugs is the cost of lost liberties.
Don’t worry, once they’re legalized and the government attempts to regulate them then the cost will go back up. Do you think that if the government starts dispensing heroin and meth rations that the cartels will all die? There will just be a new ‘war’, a capitalist competition war between the government dispensaries and the cartels. The supply will simply increase more, which is a good thing I guess.
A little secret for you:
The cartels will always win because they operate globally outside of all laws & we’re trying to fight them from within the confines of a lawful civilization.
Legalizing drugs will not stop the encroachment of their lawlessness into our world. It will only hasten it.
My niece was hooked in methamphetamine. BAD! After her third trip to the joint, she got serious and has been clean for over 10 years now. I’m happy she’s not dead. I’m not a big fan of “rehab” because I’m convinced it doesn’t work. She made me eat my words. So okay, it worked once.
How hard would you work if you knew that success would mean you are out of work?
The other thing to note is that a theocratic police state - Iran - can’t control its drug problem.
Most folks beleive keeping drugs illegal doesn’t stop anybody from getting them, but also believe that far more people would use them if legalized.
You are wrong. The war against drugs IS working.
Thanks to that war, heroin and cocaine are not for sale at the local convenience store. Heroin and cocaine are not handed out like Slurpees at Seven-Eleven. Heroin and cocaine are not sold like hot dogs at the corner of most streets. Heroin and cocaine are not passed out by vendors at baseball games. Heroin and cocaine are not served at soccer team parties after the championship game. Heroin and cocaine are not placed on your tray by airline stewards. Heroin and cocaine are not everywhere — thanks to our brave policemen and parents and those non-libertarians who support them.
You are WRONG. End of debate.
I don’t use drugs either including the liquid type
Trying to talk sense to way too many on this site is frustrating
They learned NOTHING from PROHIBITION
I believe “The War on Drugs” to be in reality a war on rights, particularly property and legal rights. Just ask yourself how compromised the 4th amendment has become because of it.
We have to have a war on drugs because we can’t just let people do whatever they want because they might do something I don’t like /sarc
The cartels have figured out that they can smuggle drugs by mixing them in with potential voters and watching the Democrats suck them across the border by capillary action.
I remember it being $30-50 a gram 30 years ago. Is that what Obama paid?
The price of illegal drugs will go back up once a new large group of addicts are added into the mix.
I know one person who has been kept off drugs because they are illegal....... me. Legalizing drugs would be absolutely idiotic.
A death sentence for trafficking drugs would be a good start if winning the drug war is important enough.
I don’t like any of our choices when it comes to illegal drugs, particularly when kids are involved.
Mebbe some bright eyes over at the NYT will be able to someday document the “convenient” loss of Constitutional freedoms in parallel with the expansion of the drug war.
So far Freedom has been the only issue constrained by the so called drug war.