All I said was that in order to win a “war”, one must be willing to actually fight to win...
As far as solutions go...maybe legalization is the answer, but out of that will come bigger government...a double edged sword to be sure. Not counting the potential increase in addicts.
I still hold to my original comment on this thread...
Merchants of death and misery deserve that which they dispense.
SZ, we have more people in prison per capata than ANY other nation on the planet earth. The majority of that is drug-related.
Other than killing addicts and dealers, how do you propose that we become harsher? How have we ever been ‘soft’ on the WOD? For the love of gd, we’re destroying lives over prescribed pain meds.
In your mind, what would it take to ‘win the war’?
I say end the ‘war’ and turn this into a public health issue. As a smoker, I must admit that they’re doing a pretty good job of dropping cigarette use with this approach and that’s a tougher nut to crack than heroin.
You must ask yourself, what methods actually *work*?
How’s that working out for them?
Not very well. Their addiction rates are skyrocketing and they’re responsible for 30% of the world’s amphetamine black market.
All I said was that in order to win a “war”, one must be willing to actually fight to win...
And as Marie showed, even that doesn't always work. Any war on drugs is really a war on human nature: the as-old-as-humanity urge to alter one's mental state, and the profit motive.
As far as solutions go...maybe legalization is the answer, but out of that will come bigger government
How so? Regulation is by any sensible definition smaller government than prohibition.