The War on Drugs has had the same effect on drugs as the War on Poverty has had on poverty.
People are stupid...
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You ever post any responses in the threads you post?
If the feral government wants to make sure that guns are readily available to anyone, all they have to do is outlaw them.
They will never be brought under control once they are here.
Obama knows this.
If not Mexicans and their poverty, diseases, and drugs, it will be Ebola victims for humanitarian purposes, right?
Soaring overdose deaths.
By all means, let’s legalize heavy drugs.
It just hurts ONLY them, right? Zero collateral damage to anyone else or society.
These are two different issues tied together on purpose.
THe War on Drugs as termed by BigGovt has been the excuse used to militarize internal security forces. If they had actually used SWAT for intended purposes we wouldn’t have the druggie landscapes - or the gangbangers and drug lords - existing as large and strong as they do in the cities.
The myth that hard drugs should be legal because it on;y hurts that person, is bullsh1t. We have 50 years of misery and death and damaged family and corroded society that says otherwise. And don’t give me that sh1t heavy drugs are the same as alcohol, nobody’s buying that lie either.
We need to disarm the militarized police because they aren’t being used the way they said they were going to be. We were lied to. See Freedom From War State Dept Pub 7277 to understand what SWAT is all about.
Just because we need to demilitarize police because they were sold to the public under false pretenses doesn’t mean heavy drugs ought to be legalize because they only hurt the drug user. That’s just as much bullsh1t as the SWAT’s going to used to get rid of drug houses/gangbangers lie.
You posted a bad link? You posted an excerpt to a blog?
Are you a troll? Or worse, a dopertarian?
Chemical weapons of mass destruction.
Opiode analgesics, mostly pharmaceutical drugs, account for half of this increase. I don’t see how the war on drugs has all that much to do with doctors over-prescribing drugs like codeine, morphine. methadone, meperidine (Demerol), hydromorphone (Dilaudid), and oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet). Details here:
http://www.drugabuse.ca/opioid-analgesics
We hear horror stories of teens from good families and nice neighborhoods dying from these things. A drug counselor told me about a high school kid who regularly broke into neighbors homes to steal their pills…and in an upscale neighborhood. I asked what he would advise the parents and he said, “Take out an insurance policy on the boy’s life.” Because the kid was beyond help. My friend the counselor was very distressed about these kids. I know another family, quite prominent, with the same problem…spend hundreds of thousands on rehab after rehab since their son was 12, but it’s only a matter of time.
Doctors in places like Miami have “pain clinics” where they indiscriminately prescribe these drugs to anyone who walks through the door. Should they be prosecuted? A resounding YES from me.
Well obviously if we just make the stuff legal, overdose deaths will go way down to nothing. Right?
As a recovered alcoholic (nearly 21 years), listening to stories from addicts, I don’t doubt the overdose stats.
People who drink and/or drug themselves to death deserve little sympathy beyond the first offer of help.
But when the “victim” repeatedly refuses help, they are on their own, and hopefully they do the minimum damage to others.
Wonder what percent is suicide?
Illegal aliens overdose at an alarming rate here in the US.
Sounds like a good result to me, fewer prisons to build.
Hope every user croaks.