The “War on Drugs” hasn’t worked. The drugs being used previously simply had a lower rate of inducing death or lethal results. Cocaine in the 80’s, for example, or meth in the 90’s.
Opiates have gone in and out of fashion over about a 4 decade cycle. They were highly fashionable in the 70’s, and kids and rock stars were dropping like flies back then. Then coke became the hip drug of choice, and so on.
Well, we’ve just about run the course on the stimulants like coke and meth, so now we’re back to the opiates again.
Morphine was a fashionable drug in the period between WWI and WWII in the US and Europe. It became much cheaper after about 1930 due to new methods of being made from precursors.
The war on drugs has discredited itself. It needs no outside help. The number of people who have been killed by law enforcement during “no knock” searches of houses based on nothing more than the “evidence” presented by a doper who wants to get a break from law enforcement has reached absurd levels. We’re talking about completely innocent people getting gunned down by SWAT teams based on nothing more than the word of some dope peddler or dope user.
It’s long past time to end the “war on drugs” and restore people’s Fourth Amendment rights. As far as I’m concerned, if dopers die from using drugs, that’s their issue - they brought that end on themselves. Getting people who aren’t dopers killed on the word of dopers to law enforcement? I have a big problem with that.
I seem to be, as usual, about 45 years behind the times, just getting interested now in vaping marijuana (WA State).
It is about supply and demand. There is a large supply of very addictive, pure, cheap heroin, all over the country.
Government studies show a clear correlation between availabilty and abuse. The war on drugs “failure” was a Soros campaign that obviously people like you fall for.