Police Chief Says Global Drug War is a Failure

[adavis4012]

Make your voice heard and cast your vote to Support or Oppose here:

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[CBAsystems]

Thats not so true cause every time DEA send Agents that are even Mexicans over that border they find them headless......chopped up and video of wild dogs eating whats left of them but YouTube keeps the videos from airing....

[PRoDiiGYox]

LEGALIZE. REGULATE. EDUCATE.

[Soz307]

Type PRIZE before youtube and hit enter

[HEXiC32]

dudes its not my country anyway.... you know what to do... all you have to do is to close your eyes for a few seconds and imagine america with all legal drugs. Sure alcohol is addictive but not as much as drugs... drugs have a much bigger fisical addiction. I haven't heard a single story until today of someone shooting parents for alcohol , yet for drugs... Even if drugs were less expensive - sure they would be expensive. Afterall its a hardworking process... but i quit, do whatever you want.

[Alien99]

@HEXiC32 "alcohol is addictive but not as much as drugs." SUPER FACEPALM. I stopped reading there because you are obviously either not educated, or a troll.

[Tyorant]

Quit screwing around! You kids screw around too much!

[HEXiC32]

Look I am sorry for this kind of inadequate answer behaviour from me... I mean but legalizing drugs? I have seen people killing for a few coins to swap by drugs and I tell you dude thats not pretty...do you have any idea on what legalizing drugs would bring? do you want a world of drug addicts? can't you see that america's first steps are european country's next steps? please dont legalize it.

[CDClock]

@HEXiC32 there would be no more drug killings if they were legal. alcohol is a dangerous, addictive substance and it is enjoyed by billions around the globe.

[massedup]

@HEXiC32 Look dude, addiction is addiction people are addicted to food, television, video games, cigarettes, alcohol and many more to mention. You say you're studying neuroscience but the way generalize the possibility of a drug legal world makes me think you haven't looked at all the negatives that are produced from having drugs legalized. Amsterdam and Portugal's drug related problems have decreased far lower than the US and Mexico because of the legalization tactic.

[BandakaKush]

We need to legalize all drugs.

[HEXiC32]

YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!!! IMAGINE THEN if we didn't TRY!!!! what do you want? to see all drugs legal... have you any idea on what a drugged suspect can do while still on effects of drugs. he can murder you fucking idiot , he CAN murder!!!! what would you do when the number of murders in USA rises to the tripple?? invent other explenation maybe... fuck that asshole!

[burnsalad]

@HEXiC32

you can hardly spell and your calling a man with YEARS of experience an Idiot?

Fuck that asshole? No...Fuck you, you ignorant piece of shit. If anyone were to murder someone while on drugs, I hope it's you.

[LightJehuety]

@HEXiC32 Your clearly 9 years old.

[malexsf]

@HEXiC32

Pardon me sir, but you're from Portugal, correct?

You're aware that your own country decriminalized drugs in 2001? And the results so far have been overwhelmingly positive?

Yeah.

[HEXiC32]

@malexsf are you idiot? drugs in our country are illegal...

[calrogman]

@HEXiC32 In 2001 Portugal decriminalized possession of effectively all drugs that are still illegal in other developed nations including, but not limited to, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and LSD. While possession is legal, trafficking and possession of more than "10 days worth of personal use" are still punishable by jail time and fines.

[HEXiC32]

@calrogman that sounds contradictory.... wich is not uncommon in portuguese laws.

[emo]

@HEXiC32 That's absurd. Which other drug would influence murder other than the currently legal drug alcohol? Cannabis is certainly safe. I'm currently stoned and feel significantly more stable minded than when I'm sober. Infact, most drugs in the psychedelic category, which includes: cannabinoids (Marijuana) and tryptamines (Psilocybin Mushrooms) have been proven safe by years of chemical research. With the safety established, the world should legally have access to them.

[HEXiC32]

@emo actually drugs (cannabis stiva derivates, non-natural drugs, heroin ,etc...) all of them interact negativly in the brain synaptic transmition. Some drugs interfere with the neuro transmitor receptors , some cause over or inner production of neuro transmissors (NT). These effects are more evident in some drugs than others (cocaine vs cannabis). But contrarely to alcohol or cigaretes, these drugs effects are continuous. Small doses of these drugs contaminate the brain faster or slower.

[CDClock]

@HEXiC32 bro im studying neuroscience in school and you're just making shit up shut the fuck up

[HEXiC32]

@CDClock ho yeah? so I bet your about to fail your neuroscience exam.

[CDClock]

@HEXiC32 ho yeah? cool story man i have a 3.8 actually so you can suck my cock

what have you done with your life?

[HEXiC32]

@emo ho and btw ! the kind of effects that alcohol's alucination gives is NOT the same as any other drug .

[CannabisHeals]

Joseph McNamara always covers the issue so well, great interview here, thank you LEAP! ♥

[NWONEWSNOW]

Prohibition still doesn't work? Imagine that. What is the saying? It goes something like, stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[playerx]

Lol, "The DIA"

that guy is pretty dumb. #t8s

[thefakeyeti]

Why do they keep on mentioning the wikileaks but they don't say what the leaks where exactly..

Or was it how many offices the dea has?

[Br34kthr0ugh]

@thefakeyeti

Because there were over 100,000 different intelligence (very low intelligence files, so we don't even get anything close to really good against the DEA) and there is likely to be a LOT of files about the drug war in one way or another. Unless you want to be the person to catalog the 150,000+ cables in order of genre and relevance, I figure no one else would want to do that much work either :PPP

[ShadowCloud143]

Thank You L.E.A.P.

[DaithiDublin]

Great to see that press coverage hasn't faltered post prop 19. You could do with getting a story on The Young Turks or something similar, just to reach a wider audience. And now that the host (Cenk of TYT) has a regular spot on MSNBC could be the right time.

[MrSalmon88]

this channel needs so much more attention, this is in my opinion the biggest problem in the states right now

[silversobe]

The war on drugs has created cartels and drug lords which finance their weapons and power through drug profits. End the war on drugs and regulate these substances to end the violence once and for all.