1.5 trillion wasted, millions in prisons. It’s a success alright for the DEA and DOJ who prey and profit from the millions of Americans whose lives are ruined.
Might I remind you that ODs are at all time highs. That’s because an illicit market is unregulated and the drugs are much more dangerous.
But it’s even worse. The DEA spends an inordinate amount of time and money attacking legal prescriptions. This has had the effect of shitting people to the dangerous illegal market.
It really does appear that DEA is enabling the illicit market for profit and job security. The DEA has been in China for 30 years. It just so happened that fentanyl analogs took off while prescriptions went down. They worked with Chinese narcotics police. So do you think China was helping to reduce fentanyl imports with DEA?
Come on, we know DEA is a secret corrupt organization with little oversight. Either you’re a shill for the police state or you’re brainwashed by them.
Agreed. We’ve wasted decades and grown massive government bureaucracies to try and combat this this thing like it’s a war. All it’s done is massively erode our civil liberties, burned trillions in taxpayer dollars, and packed our prisons with people who will never qualify for a good job for the rest of their lives even if they clean up their act.
Target the distributors and treat the addicts. It’s cheaper, easier, and less risk to the rest of us that just want to live our lives. If you want to reduce addiction, improve the economy. Very few people with good paying jobs and lives that are going well start hitting the crack pipe. It always starts with a reason, and more often than not that reason is to escape a life that’s going very poorly.
Like I said before, when people are making their drugs from chemicals from bathroom cleaning products, something evidently worked.
....And before you accuse me of being a CIA mole or some other nonsense, take a step back and recognize today’s drug market is considerably driven by people’s desperation to consume....
If it means consuming stuff made from toilet cleaner and battery acid, then their mindless desperation drives it.