[Ken H]

Executing people for possession is the only solution I see to winning the War on Drugs. If you've got a better way, maybe you could suggest that instead of calling me names.

International Narcotics Control Strategy Report -2003

Iran has executed more than 10,000 narcotics traffickers in the last decade; executions continue, but the UNODC reports that many in the Iranian judiciary are questioning the deterrent effect of executions.

The Iranian Government (GOI) estimates that about two percent of Iran's 67.7 million citizens (that is, about 1,354,000 people) are regular drug abusers (drug-dependent addicts), but many respected observers of drug abuse worldwide view this estimate as low. ~snip~ The GOI seems particularly concerned over the sharp increase in intravenous drug abuse.

-- http://www.parstimes.com/news/archive/2004/state/narcotics_report_2003.html

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1. If you compare the scope of heroin addiction in Iran and Singapore to the scope of the problem in the Netherlands, which do you think has a better handle on the heroin problem?

2. What is your preferred approach between the alternatives you've presented?

[Wolfie]

Remember, ya can't arrest and account for 20 million illegals, but rounding up 50 million or so drug-using Americans shouldn't be too much of a problem.

[SittinYonder]

2. What is your preferred approach between the alternatives you've presented?

What alternatives have I presented? I've said that if we want to win the war on drugs the only solution I see to winning it is imposing severe penalties, to include the death penalty, for possession. So far I've been presented with the numbers of people who would have to be executed, I've been accused of being a muslim and being uncommitted to the war on drugs because I won't perform the executions myself. But only one person has suggested that I'm wrong and that continuing to fight the WOD in the way it goes now will eventually result in a win.