@djosccom If you're so curious; anything can be a drug. From sex to TV, anything to keep us from experiencing STILLNESS, to help us run away from our incessantly thinking minds because we cant face the reality of our monkey minds. Regardless of whatever drugs me or anyone is doing, almost every little thing we do, we do it for a reason. I for one, miss the fuck out of drugs, but choose to face life without using any crutches and watering down the perfect experience that life already is.
@sallylongpants You just wrote four inane comments, none of which refer to any facts. So much smoke blown into the internet, and no one will even read it...
@sallylongpants Really? So despite increasing demand (which increases prices, DUH), prices will go down? Prices will go down despite being required to increase in order to support taxation, regulation, and public health costs??? Really? Evidence please.
@sallylongpants Wait a minute, so you recognize that your economic actions have directly supported a drug war that has caused about 50,000 casualties? Just so you can strike up? I highly doubt such an immoral person can explain to me how the supposed promises of legalization could ever materialize, such that legalization could drive down either demand (FALSE), price (FALSE), or defray cartel market holdings (FALSE FALSE FALSE).
@swimspectre No, they murder competitors, potential legal threats, dissidents, splinter factions, and sometimes they kill people just for fun. Show me the evidence that these legally "humble" folks will simply walk away from a fully entrenched, horizontally integrated, billions dollar/yr investment just because of legalization, when there is no way to legalize pot without increasing its cost, thereby giving the price advantage right back to illicit markets. Explain and cite your facts please.
@sallylongpants 7% is a friggin huge number in the aggregate, given the actual number of accidents the proportion represents, you tard! I just gave you the facts, and a simple google search would yield you THOUSANDS more links to studies confirming the rates of marijuana involved in accidents. And that's only addressing one of the smallest proportions of its larger public costs in terms of health care, trafficking violence, crime costs, enforcement... on and on and on.
@sallylongpants Sure they can call a cab--just like heroin addicts, blind people, terrorists, and teletubbies. There are numerous cannabis related car accidents; in fact, marijuana is a factor in the majority of DUI accidents, fatal and non-fatal (NTSB). European studies have found similar results, in that marijuana was found to be a factor in 7% of fatal collisions, which is a very strong number. I have a country, and its name is FACT, not "Ignorant Liberal Fairy Land."
@sallylongpants Close-minded? Your actions contribute to the deaths of many thousands of people. Here's a clue for finding your conscience: its not up your arse. This country or any other country, you have a duty to give up certain freedoms as a condition of being part of a community. You have elected to abandon that community; ergo, pack your bags.
You win the war on drugs by REDUCING POVERTY and educating people on the adverse effects on your body and mind. You don't go kicking in people doors and shooting the shit out of people for trying to escape the brutal shit they are in.
Legalize marijuana? Fine. Then all you potheads can form your own high-risk health insurance pools, your own car insurance pools, your own self-funded social services, and reparations for the 40,000 dead Mexican drug war casualties you've put in the ground, you sick friggin selfish pricks.
@thereinliestherib Yeh but if it was legal, there would be no dead mexicans in the first place. Exporting cannabis is only makes money because it is illegal. If everyone grew their own weed then there would be no criminal market for it.
@CallusDnb Just so you know, if MJwas taxed and regulated commensurate with its actual systemic and public costs, the price advantage would lean to illegally produced MJ by enormous margins. You're citing completely contradictory justifications. Nice to see you admit your direct involvement in the deaths of 40,000 people though--it's a start.
"Report: War On Drugs Has Failed" No shit Sherlock ! That is like saying the sky is blue,rain makes the grass grow or the oceans consist of salt water.
Did you know that at the same time as our government is criminalizing drugs for people and imprisoning millions of them in private run prisons it's also helping to grow Heroin fields in Afghanistan which now accounts to 93% of worlds heroin?? U.S. uses its military force to protect those fields in Afghanistan and later ships the Heroin around the world including U.S.?
Google "The Post-9/11 Afghan Heroin explosion" and "NY times: Afghan opium kingpin"
The only drug you need to legalize is marijuana. Tax it and regulate it just like alcohol, you cant smoke and drive, etc.. and half of the drug war is over. Weed counts for like half of the drugs.
lol was just writing when he said about Portugal and Holland, probably only countries in the world that legalized it (lower class drugs).
you cant win, at least legalize it, control it and give better conditions to the people to take it (safety, new needles, hygiene) while they around you, helped them leave the habit. btw ... i dont take drugs, but we have to be reasonable!
Goverment is ment to protect its people form eachother not from ourselves, is it right for the goverment to ban small dirtbikes under the no lead in toys law....its bull shit.
don't ban it regulate adn inform, we don't need all the BS just do your job and not ours, WE CAN MAKE CHOICES FOR OUR SELVES
@Lucasfernando81 Well that sounds like the problem is with Brazil then and not with legalization, if the Netherlands doesn't have this problem. And trust me, those of you traveling to Brazil be warned: the police are not looking the other way and they will do something. The police in Brazil carry out full scale invasions of favelas. The drug war is big business there just the same as it is in most of the rest of the world.
Clearly, the war on drugs is not a war that is meant to be won. It truly is the neverending war. Arms, prisons, those industries are raking in the dough, and lobbying to get what they want.
Joe Rogan said it best: Right now we have soldiers in afghanistan literally guarding poppy fields. Ur tellin me that 90% of the worlds heroin comes from a place where we have to "save our freedom"? Whos sellin it? I dunno but ur fuckin nuts if you think these rich industrialists dont want in on that
@Accisma ~~> People still make moonshine in the hills and liver disease & lung cancer are big issues when it comes to healthcare costs in the states... If you think that there will not be basement labs your wrong, there will... If you think regulations are the answer then why do I see truth commercials about the effects of smoking... WE can't even get good rates for HC now, who will be paying all the new medical fees for users who have better access to there vices?? BTW, I am a hemp supporter
~~> I wouldn't use heron either but I don't want to take my child to the park and see a guy with a needle hanging out his arm just because its leagle...
I agree that criminalizing drugs is retarded. However, you guys are naive if you think all these gangs are going to disappear after you legalize it. You know what they're going to do? Keep on fighting and find other trouble to get into. Look at all the South American socialist-revolution armies. What did they do after they realized the fight was over? They kidnapped people for ransom. Fifty years later, these militias are still active and just as dangerous.
every 10 years the population is higher and those statistics are only reflecting the amount of people so its not on the rise in % its just inline with the growth of population increase. i say if you spent less on fighting drugs and more on creating jobs and education, the masses will do less drugs
Two ways to win the war on drugs. Execute everyone who possesses over a certain amount of drugs(Singapore). This strategy works very well. In fact they have almost no drug use but I have a feeling that would be cruel and unusual punishment here in the US. The 2nd, much less death way is the just decriminalize drugs but aggressively go after traffickers.(Netherlands) Less death and you get to eat a pot brownie!
Of course the white house slaps it down. Why? Because the white house knows that they are no match for the alcohol and tobacco companies, two industries which comprise of some of the many cooperation that run this country. These industries don't necessarily fear economic competition because drug use and alcohol/tobacco use often go hand in hand. What they really fear is the political competition that a legal drug industry would bring to the table. IT'S ABOUT THE POWER LEBOWSKI!!!!
@Brewhahh Im suggesting running an honest campaign, with facts and not bullshit. She wants to use the same types of campaigns on illegal drugs, that they use on cigarettes which is mostly bullshit lies. Legalizing drugs just so you can lie about them makes no sense.
Tobacco is harmful, sure. But most the shit they say are the same scare tactic campaigns run about pot. Its all 99% bullshit. She insinuates lying to the public about how harmful tobacco and drugs are is the same as educating them
250 million out of 6.7 billion? Wow, a lot of the world is poor. I would have though 10% of the worlds population but then I forgot to take into account that it is only in places above subsistance living.
As long as there are pharmaceutical companies, street drugs will never be legal. I know i work in healthcare and they are making a killing. Also they have 6 lobbyist for each congressman....
So all we need is for a politician in Mexico to become president and then the first thing he does should be to legalize drugs, he may be forced to resign but no one would be willing to re-criminalize drugs.
I love this video. I tried to convince my crime law class that decrim was the best way to go and used all of these points. You hit the nail on the head.
@SuperLonelyLife LMAO woah where the fuck did I say it's a good idea for kids to take herorin. I never smoked pot in my life and never had the urge to take drugs. What I clearly stated was that it is very EASY for people to get drugs if they want. But i love how you put together Idiots with Pot. even though some of the smartest people in the world have smoked weed. Calm it down
The 18th Amendment was passed because John D. Rockefeller lobbied congress so that ethonol would not be used as a alternative fuel to gasoline. Now let's think. Who wouldn't want marijuana to be legalized now. If yu guessed the alcohol and tobacco corporations then you are absolutely right!
There is alot of money that goes into catching drug users. Police, state, prisons, federal employees. It's hard to fight a profit machine that transends all aspects of government and business. Eventually it will fail though, apparently the hard way too.
Drugs are a big issue, from the great number of people who use them to the different kind of them and the impact they have in the personal lives of consumers and in society. Personally I don´t do them, but I know that the wrong thing to do is reduce all this issue to a notebook with a "prohibited" label. That is a darkening reference. The only way to face the drug consume, dependence, etc. is to have a real social concience about them. Until we remove that label, that will be impossible.
fuk the government killuminati look my argument is same as its been,just like cigaretes we educated the public on how bad illegal drugs are,if we legalize them only the ignorant will continue to do them,there is no one not doin drugs now sayin "well if they are legal ill try them" just govs bs excuse to prison more people,gangs killin eachother off ova dis shit an teh rich whites laughn the whole time
Too bad as an American citizen I can't grow Marijuana and Give it to the Government for Taxes.Imagine the Biofuel that the government could add to the Fuel to Reduce the costs of Fossil Fuel,Army Airborne Parachutes,possible gains in BodyArmor Technology,Cannabis,Clothes.If millions of Americans Were given an incentive to grow Hemp for the government.Our American ForeFathers Grew it here in America.Benjamin Franklin an All American smoked pot and he Loved it.So why can't we all just get a bong:D
Marijuana legalize it! The world would be a better place for us all.my grampa smoked weed after ww2 my dad smoked in the 60's b4 the army,and I use it for back pain from time to time and it works.Pot has grown naturally for thousands of years i'll proably catch my teenager kids in the future using it and i'll say the same thing my dad said to me "are you smoking that shit again boy?"he laughs walks away.You can make biofuel medicine and clothes with pot so Legalize it America!! no police state:D
I agree the leader's are / were on the take of US money to fight the "war" As soon as they are cut off, they are for de-criminalsation of drugs.
The largest and most profitable coorporations in the USA are pharmacuiticles, the gov officials, then lobbiest.
I trust gangs more than the gov or the police, and I'm a whitty MFer, cracker, white bread. I know who i am. i am not a"suite or a narc or PoPo, 50, SNITCH
I am jus a guy who want to be left in peace an play music of the world
The biggest thing missing from this segment, and almost every other one like it, if not all of them (except for mine of course), is that this war leaves more real criminals at large due to its waste of resources. Obviously if they're out chasing people for drugs then that's time & resources taken away from chasing pedophiles, rapists, murderers, thieves & so forth. Taking it a step further, this means that people who support this war also support having more real criminals at large as a result.
Decriminalizing drug use is INSANITY. After spending years in schools teaching kids drugs are harmful and lead to great consequences now the message they will be getting is, "we were just wasting your time, go ahead and use drugs if you want because they're being legalized."
@warriorspikes51 But they were wasting their time and money, also its not like as soon as its decriminalized people will become drug addicts for example when the state banned beer the same exact thing happened (nucky thompson)
Puritanical moralists like you argue that anything like marijuana that brings pleasure to people should be illegal because "pleasure is bad".
The government wasted millions of dollars in the 20's on alcohol prohibition and that failed just like marijuana prohibition has failed at everything other than putting decent people in prison for decades.
Prohibition is not about protecting people from themselves but rather about making them slaves to a particular groups servile self righteous morality
The war on drugs is an assault on human rights.For what other scenario can openly lead to wide spread prejudice and discrimination in regards to employment, housing, education, and government assistance other than drug use? America was once so proud to have abolished slavery, but now it has returned and the public has not even the wits to recognize it.
@ipukesnshine DISCRIMINATION SHOULD BE USED. Nobody should be hired for jobs if they are "vegging out" on weed half the time. An assault on human rights? You are a dope head that's why you can't think clearly. The only thing drugs are an assault on is an individual's ability to use their mind properly to make wise decisions.
@warriorspikes51 First of all tax payer dollars should not be used to prevent an issue that should be a "personal problem." There are better uses for taxes, and drug use can be prevented much cheaper with methods such as increasing education and rehabilitation using private healthcare. Perhaps then YOU could invest in increasing YOUR education and present some convincing arguments to prove your point instead of resorting to using 'ad hominem' philosophical fallacies.
The United States government does not represent you they have you bent over and are shoving the cock of justice up the peoples asshole and all we can do is say thank you, daddy it feels good, daddy deeper, daddy can I get high now, daddy? and daddy says no he ain't done yet
Stoners stop saying "legalize it" cuz it'll never happen it's a bigger issue than that. The government knows wtf they're doing. They're killing us on purpose fuck this government!!!!!
It's bcoz if the government legalizes & regulates weed & taxes it, more people would steer away from OTC drugs, prescription drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, & hard illegal drugs & more people would start smoking weed (more than there already is) Ppl will start replacing cigarettes with joints, & if the ppl don't smoke cigarettes & drink alcohol or poison their bodies with prescription pills, less & less ppl would die & that's NOT what the government wants. So ston
The biggest drug dealers is the New world order controlled US government.....look up CIA drug trafficking........The war on drugs is a fraud, its a war on the American people.....We are now living in a fascist police state.......Its so funny how they try selling us tyranny in the name of security.... Security = tyranny
@Lock3d85 That's why you'll never see decriminalization. They don't call it the "criminal" justice system for nothing. It's all about $... always has been, always will be. ;)
i think legalization would have to be a republican initiative. if the dems tried it, they would run for the hills the minute some jack-ass suggested that they were trying to kill our children. but the rupugs will never do it either. this won't happen in my lifetime, and i'm young. sucks.
@HybridFreak412 Decriminalize: to eliminate criminal penalties or remove legal restrictions = it's legal now.....you got to read a little bit more my friend.
but i dont care if you call it decriminalize...legalize or whatever still DOES NOT WORK!
@SuperLonelyLife That's such a good point, unless... one lives in reality. The fact that you immediately go for the "OMG SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN" spin shows that you have no reasonable or factual arguments for your case. In other words: You are just making stuff up.
creats job opportunity for criminals and makes it more accessible than to legalize it and put regulations. I got into a debate with my sister and brother in law about why we should legalize but they said "it leaves a bad impression to other countries, we put our dignity at risk to legalize drugs." and that "weed is a gateway drug" my sister still believes that weed for healthy functioning people is bad for them, but for people with weak immune systems like cancer, oh totally fine. why? who cares
@wetdream09 weed for people who are ill and on kimo and in pain use weed to lesson that pain. for people who are sick weed helps them calm the pain. for people who are not sick weed hightens the blood. speeds up the process. for the sick it makes people feel ok, for people who just use it, it makes the heart beat faster and so on, like a mini steroid. but again weed has no real harmfull problems except some lung issues if you use ALOT of it. and loss of brain cells, but so does everything else
This report makes one huge assumption. And that's that the war on drugs is about drugs, and not about a for-profit prison industry that makes billions off housing inmates for years for drug possession.
If this were suddenly a perfect world, our government would end it's prohibition on drugs immediately and shift its focus and resources toward the white collar criminals on Wall Street who caused more harm in the past decade than drugs have caused in the past century. But since this is the exact opposite of a perfect world, our government will continue to do the exact opposite of what it should be doing.
You can't state that specific types of drug use went down or up as proper evidence. The popularity of different substances is variable. The only real statistic is the total level of drug use. Stating the Netherlands had heroin usage drop over a specific time period is not sufficient evidence to prove that legalising works.
@TheIronTank Blue sky...yeah I remeber those, weren't there some pretty fluffy white clouds that would roll along. Sometimes they looked like animals or things you knew, and the air was clean to breath.
Well that's all gone, until we end this bull shit game of being controlled by the people we pay to speak for us, the next one that does the new method of operation should be dis-appeared, just like they would do to any of us.
Time to stand uo against the machine, remember the 60's I do!!
Land of the free? Shouldn't people be able to do with their body as they wish provided they do not harm others in the process? I understand that some will use the excuse that "weed makes you go out of your normal state of mind", as does alcohol- many people have died as a result of this. Yet we don't ban alcohol. If you're going to ban weed, why not alcohol? And since I'm a "militant" atheist/agnostic, why not ban religion, or any other form of dogma for your own good?
The funny thing is that the commission said that is should be decriminalized, but not legalized. WHAT?! In other words they want America to stop sending people to jail and start sending them to rehab. If the prison lobby starts to weaken even a little bit, then you'll start to see a private rehab lobby come into play. It will still be punished, just not with jail time. Don't be fooled.
The Netherlands is leading the charge to bring an end to drug violence. Yet even if the Netherlands discovered a cure for cancer, American blowhards would probably say "That cure will never work here in America, the culture is totally different!" You're not special America! Follow the example of others and end this fucking war before more lives are needlessly lost.
It makes sense that the usage would go down. If it's legal there are no dealers with incentive to get people hooked. Of course if you legalize them you have to make advertising them (particularly to children) illegal.
@TheNakedAtheist Exactly. Otherwise we get a McDonalds situation where kids are directly targeted. Same with other junk foods. The government hasn't stopped that though. :(
not really news for most people, this has been said for along time. there have been lots of reports and the simple fact is the government doesn't care. its not about whats right or wrong its about supporting cooperations and winning the next election using scare mongering tactics in their campaigning
@steviesbackbitch yes, if you put all the glue & fuel sniffers around the world in one cage, you need a big cage. But compared to the populace, it is still a negligible problem, especially outside of slum areas, although everybody COULD do it.
I think that pretty much blasts those dark prophecies, how apocalypse would ensue, if hard drugs ever got legally available. Glue and gasoline ARE pretty hard drugs, if used as such, and they ARE freely available.
i think drug cartels need to be called terrorists because if you live on the border you should know how things really are. if you don't then imagine groups of armed men having shootouts in the streets with guns as strong as the military.
3 thousand Americans die in the towers and you guys make a big deal, 30 plus thousand Mexicans die, mehh who cares. keep wondering why the world hates you
Don't even start talking about the loss of human life. Those in power to change the laws don't give a flying fuck about human life when money's involved.
It's all about money. Say : "Illegal drugs don't make as much money for YOU as legal ones." Guarantee them that by legalizing drugs more money will get into their pockets. Betcha they'd be really happy about that.
U All remember Nancy Regan's "Dumbest Anti-Drug Slogan in History!"..."JUST SAY NO!" *LOL*! She Really went GANGSTA on all the Crack/Heroin addicts with that one!
'Just say no' makes sense b/c that is all ppl have to do to avoid drug addiction. Don't use the drug(s) in the 1st place. Saying no costs nothing & is effective. War on drugs costs billions & doesn't work.
Belgium looked at the same report and in a newspaper poll 55% answered 'zero tolerance is the only solution'. There's plenty of idiocy and dementia in the world, believe you me.
So how do you stop people from doing drugs? You can't. That's the whole point. War on drugs? Peh! You might as well declare war on Sadness! Education can reduce drug use, but not eliminate it completely. As long as human beings have brains that desire altered perception, some of us will use drugs. It's a timeless part of our relationship with the biochemical world...and it's neither good nor bad.
@icarus313 All right, but you are forgetting the impact they have in the lives of consumers in short and long term, and in society. I think what you are saying, though, helps to create a real concience about them, which is the only real way to deal with them ("deal" ´cos I couldn´t find a better word), instead of saying they are just "bad" or "prohibited".
Yes that's right. Promoting an educated and serious understanding of the consequences of drug use is the best way forward. When drugs are legal, but people are shown by impartial and non-judgmental medical professionals the dangers of their use, people will be less inclined to get into drug use. A big issue with drug illegality is that it puts the problem of fighting addiction into the hands of law enforcement when it should be in the hands of doctors and mental health professionals.
@SuperLonelyLife Alcohol/Hard Liquor is legal. Guns are legal. Nuff said'. "Drugs don't kill people, people kill people". That is on top of the fact that just because you don't see it in your speck sized pocket of the world, Drug prohibition basically "KILLS EVERYONE". Look at American Ghettos. Brazillian favellas. Look at Mexico, that country is literally falling apart next door because of American prohibition. ETC ETC.
You are so one sighted. Horrifically so. Everyone can get drugs anyways.
The Creator created all things.Kids these days use household items that can kill or severely damage a young person.Law and governments are formed to keep a person or people from harming ANOTHER or others,not themselves.And if that is supposed to be the roll of government, to make sure its citizens are"safe,"then they have a right to do just about anything they make up to justify whatsoever their aims may be.Yahuah sent Yahusha Who said that it is what comes out of the heart,not what is consumed.
40,000 people dead? i think not, more like 200,000. dont forget the every day discoveries of MASS GRAVES including hundreds of thousands of bodies discovered recently
why can't we just legalize drugs and then use a tenth of the money we used on that "war" to educate the public. It would more than suffice, it would stop the violence (mostly) and by no means increase drug use, with the extra education, people would know what they were getting into. Goddamn, people are so illogical.
war on drugs is a joke
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Yeah let's legalize cocaine and heroin. So we can have crazy ass tweakers running around.
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I'm Norwegian. the Norwegian population is just around 5 million ppl.
and over 1 million Norwegians have smoked Marijuana. including me & Our Prime Minister, when he was in his teen years of course.
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I'm more scared of standing next to a dude who owns an assault rifle then someone who smokes pot or crack!
TheORGANEZIZED 5 months ago
@djosccom If you're so curious; anything can be a drug. From sex to TV, anything to keep us from experiencing STILLNESS, to help us run away from our incessantly thinking minds because we cant face the reality of our monkey minds. Regardless of whatever drugs me or anyone is doing, almost every little thing we do, we do it for a reason. I for one, miss the fuck out of drugs, but choose to face life without using any crutches and watering down the perfect experience that life already is.
thisworldofsound 5 months ago
@sallylongpants
The person you asked the question towards.
Ragitsu 5 months ago
@sallylongpants
Did they ever get back to you?
Ragitsu 5 months ago
@sallylongpants Why do you keep responding if you can't provide any facts to assert your position?
thereinliestherib 5 months ago
@sallylongpants You just wrote four inane comments, none of which refer to any facts. So much smoke blown into the internet, and no one will even read it...
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
@sallylongpants Really? So despite increasing demand (which increases prices, DUH), prices will go down? Prices will go down despite being required to increase in order to support taxation, regulation, and public health costs??? Really? Evidence please.
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
@sallylongpants Wait a minute, so you recognize that your economic actions have directly supported a drug war that has caused about 50,000 casualties? Just so you can strike up? I highly doubt such an immoral person can explain to me how the supposed promises of legalization could ever materialize, such that legalization could drive down either demand (FALSE), price (FALSE), or defray cartel market holdings (FALSE FALSE FALSE).
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
@swimspectre No, they murder competitors, potential legal threats, dissidents, splinter factions, and sometimes they kill people just for fun. Show me the evidence that these legally "humble" folks will simply walk away from a fully entrenched, horizontally integrated, billions dollar/yr investment just because of legalization, when there is no way to legalize pot without increasing its cost, thereby giving the price advantage right back to illicit markets. Explain and cite your facts please.
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
@sallylongpants 7% is a friggin huge number in the aggregate, given the actual number of accidents the proportion represents, you tard! I just gave you the facts, and a simple google search would yield you THOUSANDS more links to studies confirming the rates of marijuana involved in accidents. And that's only addressing one of the smallest proportions of its larger public costs in terms of health care, trafficking violence, crime costs, enforcement... on and on and on.
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
@sallylongpants Sure they can call a cab--just like heroin addicts, blind people, terrorists, and teletubbies. There are numerous cannabis related car accidents; in fact, marijuana is a factor in the majority of DUI accidents, fatal and non-fatal (NTSB). European studies have found similar results, in that marijuana was found to be a factor in 7% of fatal collisions, which is a very strong number. I have a country, and its name is FACT, not "Ignorant Liberal Fairy Land."
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
Drugs are for sad people that aren't content with reality.
thisworldofsound 6 months ago
@sallylongpants Close-minded? Your actions contribute to the deaths of many thousands of people. Here's a clue for finding your conscience: its not up your arse. This country or any other country, you have a duty to give up certain freedoms as a condition of being part of a community. You have elected to abandon that community; ergo, pack your bags.
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
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The way to "stop" the violent thugs who profit from prohibition is not to mindlessly maintain the policy that enriches them.
We demand legalization and education! NOT prohibition and propaganda!
underthebox 6 months ago
@sallylongpants You're an idiot and a leech. Get out of my health/auto insurance pools, get out of my workplace, and get out of my country. Thanks.
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
wtf I thought Ana was against legalization..
littleenglish 7 months ago
@littleenglish oh yeah here it is youtu(dot)be/tzJvo5LMEy8 Oh well I guess she dramatically changed her views lol
littleenglish 7 months ago
You win the war on drugs by REDUCING POVERTY and educating people on the adverse effects on your body and mind. You don't go kicking in people doors and shooting the shit out of people for trying to escape the brutal shit they are in.
Maxpound 7 months ago
Legalize all of them, life is too short with or without them.
tonytg909 7 months ago
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Ron Paul 2012
ucfbaj 7 months ago
Legalize marijuana? Fine. Then all you potheads can form your own high-risk health insurance pools, your own car insurance pools, your own self-funded social services, and reparations for the 40,000 dead Mexican drug war casualties you've put in the ground, you sick friggin selfish pricks.
thereinliestherib 7 months ago
@thereinliestherib Yeh but if it was legal, there would be no dead mexicans in the first place. Exporting cannabis is only makes money because it is illegal. If everyone grew their own weed then there would be no criminal market for it.
CallusDnb 7 months ago
@CallusDnb Just so you know, if MJwas taxed and regulated commensurate with its actual systemic and public costs, the price advantage would lean to illegally produced MJ by enormous margins. You're citing completely contradictory justifications. Nice to see you admit your direct involvement in the deaths of 40,000 people though--it's a start.
thereinliestherib 6 months ago
"Report: War On Drugs Has Failed" No shit Sherlock ! That is like saying the sky is blue,rain makes the grass grow or the oceans consist of salt water.
xxdonaldqxxx 7 months ago
Did you know that at the same time as our government is criminalizing drugs for people and imprisoning millions of them in private run prisons it's also helping to grow Heroin fields in Afghanistan which now accounts to 93% of worlds heroin?? U.S. uses its military force to protect those fields in Afghanistan and later ships the Heroin around the world including U.S.?
Google "The Post-9/11 Afghan Heroin explosion" and "NY times: Afghan opium kingpin"
THUMBS UP if you think war on drugs is B.S.
PiercingKnight 7 months ago 3
The only drug you need to legalize is marijuana. Tax it and regulate it just like alcohol, you cant smoke and drive, etc.. and half of the drug war is over. Weed counts for like half of the drugs.
clayton7m 7 months ago
lol was just writing when he said about Portugal and Holland, probably only countries in the world that legalized it (lower class drugs).
you cant win, at least legalize it, control it and give better conditions to the people to take it (safety, new needles, hygiene) while they around you, helped them leave the habit. btw ... i dont take drugs, but we have to be reasonable!
Paulown 8 months ago
Tha Soprters On "War On Drugs" Are Getting Cornerd!!
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legalize it - free the people
megagott 8 months ago
Goverment is ment to protect its people form eachother not from ourselves, is it right for the goverment to ban small dirtbikes under the no lead in toys law....its bull shit.
don't ban it regulate adn inform, we don't need all the BS just do your job and not ours, WE CAN MAKE CHOICES FOR OUR SELVES
CrazyDave650 8 months ago
@Lucasfernando81 Well that sounds like the problem is with Brazil then and not with legalization, if the Netherlands doesn't have this problem. And trust me, those of you traveling to Brazil be warned: the police are not looking the other way and they will do something. The police in Brazil carry out full scale invasions of favelas. The drug war is big business there just the same as it is in most of the rest of the world.
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youneekk 8 months ago
Clearly, the war on drugs is not a war that is meant to be won. It truly is the neverending war. Arms, prisons, those industries are raking in the dough, and lobbying to get what they want.
Joe Rogan said it best: Right now we have soldiers in afghanistan literally guarding poppy fields. Ur tellin me that 90% of the worlds heroin comes from a place where we have to "save our freedom"? Whos sellin it? I dunno but ur fuckin nuts if you think these rich industrialists dont want in on that
DcEatsItsYoung 8 months ago
so bascially drug addicts decide to quit once they are allowed to do so? doing something against the law makes it more exciting? that's stupid :|
xLavenderBlossomx 8 months ago
Google "Portugal 2001 Decriminalization of Drugs"
M3minusGrowth 8 months ago
if u are a corupt system, than the war on drugs is perfect for you! Never change a winning team...
dAda313 8 months ago
@Accisma ~~> People still make moonshine in the hills and liver disease & lung cancer are big issues when it comes to healthcare costs in the states... If you think that there will not be basement labs your wrong, there will... If you think regulations are the answer then why do I see truth commercials about the effects of smoking... WE can't even get good rates for HC now, who will be paying all the new medical fees for users who have better access to there vices?? BTW, I am a hemp supporter
sparkyj99 8 months ago
~~> I wouldn't use heron either but I don't want to take my child to the park and see a guy with a needle hanging out his arm just because its leagle...
sparkyj99 8 months ago
I agree that criminalizing drugs is retarded. However, you guys are naive if you think all these gangs are going to disappear after you legalize it. You know what they're going to do? Keep on fighting and find other trouble to get into. Look at all the South American socialist-revolution armies. What did they do after they realized the fight was over? They kidnapped people for ransom. Fifty years later, these militias are still active and just as dangerous.
dookdawg214 8 months ago
@dookdawg214
And why wouldn't gangs who make business around drugs disappear? The gangs around alcohol certainly vanished because of the 21st Amendment.
NaziGOPBallmer 8 months ago
now politicians, do it! the voice of reason is shouting it loud: END THE WAR!
Patriol666 8 months ago
every 10 years the population is higher and those statistics are only reflecting the amount of people so its not on the rise in % its just inline with the growth of population increase. i say if you spent less on fighting drugs and more on creating jobs and education, the masses will do less drugs
turktech1 8 months ago
Are Ana's tits getting bigger?
Coolguysandler 8 months ago
Two ways to win the war on drugs. Execute everyone who possesses over a certain amount of drugs(Singapore). This strategy works very well. In fact they have almost no drug use but I have a feeling that would be cruel and unusual punishment here in the US. The 2nd, much less death way is the just decriminalize drugs but aggressively go after traffickers.(Netherlands) Less death and you get to eat a pot brownie!
34601k 8 months ago
America is a farce. President Obama is a whore. Land of the free? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
SpiritualAtheist 8 months ago
Prohibition, because it worked so well with alcohol.
JACKtheRIPP3R189 8 months ago 37
Of course the white house slaps it down. Why? Because the white house knows that they are no match for the alcohol and tobacco companies, two industries which comprise of some of the many cooperation that run this country. These industries don't necessarily fear economic competition because drug use and alcohol/tobacco use often go hand in hand. What they really fear is the political competition that a legal drug industry would bring to the table. IT'S ABOUT THE POWER LEBOWSKI!!!!
kuunami 8 months ago
@Brewhahh Im suggesting running an honest campaign, with facts and not bullshit. She wants to use the same types of campaigns on illegal drugs, that they use on cigarettes which is mostly bullshit lies. Legalizing drugs just so you can lie about them makes no sense.
Tobacco is harmful, sure. But most the shit they say are the same scare tactic campaigns run about pot. Its all 99% bullshit. She insinuates lying to the public about how harmful tobacco and drugs are is the same as educating them
LiekABaus 8 months ago
If anyone needs me I'll be in my angry dome
bobtg 8 months ago
250 million out of 6.7 billion? Wow, a lot of the world is poor. I would have though 10% of the worlds population but then I forgot to take into account that it is only in places above subsistance living.
Nexius8 8 months ago
nailed it
Ctveezy 8 months ago
Facts wont matter as long as there's profit to be made, because profit buys US politicians, & they got ahold of the rest of the worlds balls.
MyTemporaryAccount88 8 months ago
As a conservative independent, I don't usually agree with these guys, but every single point they raised just made complete sense. Agreed.
claya91 8 months ago
As long as there are pharmaceutical companies, street drugs will never be legal. I know i work in healthcare and they are making a killing. Also they have 6 lobbyist for each congressman....
psychokillercrab 8 months ago
agreed.
ginobiligirl2220 8 months ago
So all we need is for a politician in Mexico to become president and then the first thing he does should be to legalize drugs, he may be forced to resign but no one would be willing to re-criminalize drugs.
fakesmith797 8 months ago
War On Drugs = monopoly for GOVT connected cartels. Just my opinion.
mba2ceo 8 months ago
I dont know the name of the female Young Turk reporter but I love her. She is Beautiful with a capitol B.
TicoRoots2k 8 months ago
Yes Cenk! Love hearing popular culture figured saying this stuff. Especially Americans as you said the US govt is the root of the problem!
idunnoalexmaybe 8 months ago
the police state makes too much money to do something like legalize drugs
righyanb 8 months ago
I love this video. I tried to convince my crime law class that decrim was the best way to go and used all of these points. You hit the nail on the head.
joshgman0330 8 months ago
i saw crumpled grass, Skittles, A Snickers bar, Flour, and brown sugar in the thumbnail
toaker 8 months ago 26
@toaker thats not flour, its a crumpled kleenex.
Yamikaiba123 8 months ago
@toaker was ecstasy tabs, marijuana, hash, cocaine and heroin... (THE GOOD SHIT; well heroin and weed at least)
smz62582 6 months ago
I am for legalisation, but the argument that it has to be done because drugs are still prevalent despite being illegal is ridiculous.
Should we also legalize murder because it still happens despite being illegal?
immuntocrap2 8 months ago
@immuntocrap2
Bad analogy
Murder is the harming of another
drug usage is the harming of yourself
YungDGTM 8 months ago
@YungDGTM: Doesnt matter, the logic remains the same.
immuntocrap2 8 months ago
@immuntocrap2 Murder has a victim. Some guy smoking a joint in his house hurts no one.
st4ticblu3 8 months ago
@st4ticblu3: Thats a valid but completely diffrent argument. As I said, I'm for legalizing myself.
immuntocrap2 8 months ago
@immuntocrap2: Very poor analogy. Try again.
Silberdachs 8 months ago
@Silberdachs: I'm afraid it's more a case of very poor intelligence on your part.
immuntocrap2 8 months ago
@immuntocrap2: Go tell that to my Master's Degree.
Silberdachs 8 months ago
@Silberdachs: Wow a Master's Degree???!!!! OMG!!! I'm sorry genius, I didn't know that you've got a Master's Degree!!!! I bow down to you sir. ROFL
Btw I got one myself. Try again.
immuntocrap2 8 months ago
self destruction should not be controled
SirEsahc 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife LMAO woah where the fuck did I say it's a good idea for kids to take herorin. I never smoked pot in my life and never had the urge to take drugs. What I clearly stated was that it is very EASY for people to get drugs if they want. But i love how you put together Idiots with Pot. even though some of the smartest people in the world have smoked weed. Calm it down
yankeepunk3000 8 months ago
The 18th Amendment was passed because John D. Rockefeller lobbied congress so that ethonol would not be used as a alternative fuel to gasoline. Now let's think. Who wouldn't want marijuana to be legalized now. If yu guessed the alcohol and tobacco corporations then you are absolutely right!
CHAOSoriginal 8 months ago
I fucking hate the young Turks.
CounterStrike211 8 months ago
OF COOOOOURSE!
CHAOSoriginal 8 months ago
There is alot of money that goes into catching drug users. Police, state, prisons, federal employees. It's hard to fight a profit machine that transends all aspects of government and business. Eventually it will fail though, apparently the hard way too.
Zlibservacratican 8 months ago
Drugs are a big issue, from the great number of people who use them to the different kind of them and the impact they have in the personal lives of consumers and in society. Personally I don´t do them, but I know that the wrong thing to do is reduce all this issue to a notebook with a "prohibited" label. That is a darkening reference. The only way to face the drug consume, dependence, etc. is to have a real social concience about them. Until we remove that label, that will be impossible.
kimbuo 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife Heil Hitler!
FaganRoberts 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife Heil Hitler!
FaganRoberts 8 months ago
fuk the government killuminati look my argument is same as its been,just like cigaretes we educated the public on how bad illegal drugs are,if we legalize them only the ignorant will continue to do them,there is no one not doin drugs now sayin "well if they are legal ill try them" just govs bs excuse to prison more people,gangs killin eachother off ova dis shit an teh rich whites laughn the whole time
krisroops 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife
little kids?
you realize its actually easier for a minor to get drugs than alchohol, right?
pyr666 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife Funny how gangs and violence is going up because of this... must be coincedence right?
Because DARE has been working so well thats why people are doing so much drugs!
comedycreator100 8 months ago
Too bad as an American citizen I can't grow Marijuana and Give it to the Government for Taxes.Imagine the Biofuel that the government could add to the Fuel to Reduce the costs of Fossil Fuel,Army Airborne Parachutes,possible gains in BodyArmor Technology,Cannabis,Clothes.If millions of Americans Were given an incentive to grow Hemp for the government.Our American ForeFathers Grew it here in America.Benjamin Franklin an All American smoked pot and he Loved it.So why can't we all just get a bong:D
130hc 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife Calm down. What about if drugs were legal - for 18 and up. But still illegal for minors?
MrSockoOck 8 months ago
Marijuana legalize it! The world would be a better place for us all.my grampa smoked weed after ww2 my dad smoked in the 60's b4 the army,and I use it for back pain from time to time and it works.Pot has grown naturally for thousands of years i'll proably catch my teenager kids in the future using it and i'll say the same thing my dad said to me "are you smoking that shit again boy?"he laughs walks away.You can make biofuel medicine and clothes with pot so Legalize it America!! no police state:D
130hc 8 months ago
I agree the leader's are / were on the take of US money to fight the "war" As soon as they are cut off, they are for de-criminalsation of drugs.
The largest and most profitable coorporations in the USA are pharmacuiticles, the gov officials, then lobbiest.
I trust gangs more than the gov or the police, and I'm a whitty MFer, cracker, white bread. I know who i am. i am not a"suite or a narc or PoPo, 50, SNITCH
I am jus a guy who want to be left in peace an play music of the world
loowood2 8 months ago
The biggest thing missing from this segment, and almost every other one like it, if not all of them (except for mine of course), is that this war leaves more real criminals at large due to its waste of resources. Obviously if they're out chasing people for drugs then that's time & resources taken away from chasing pedophiles, rapists, murderers, thieves & so forth. Taking it a step further, this means that people who support this war also support having more real criminals at large as a result.
DrKenHildebrandt 8 months ago
A lot of you people should be careful what you wish for or you'll get it. A nation of DOPE HEADS.
warriorspikes51 8 months ago
Decriminalizing drug use is INSANITY. After spending years in schools teaching kids drugs are harmful and lead to great consequences now the message they will be getting is, "we were just wasting your time, go ahead and use drugs if you want because they're being legalized."
warriorspikes51 8 months ago
@warriorspikes51 But they were wasting their time and money, also its not like as soon as its decriminalized people will become drug addicts for example when the state banned beer the same exact thing happened (nucky thompson)
comedycreator100 8 months ago
@warriorspikes51
cute idea. prohibition proves it wrong, though.
pyr666 8 months ago
Puritanical moralists like you argue that anything like marijuana that brings pleasure to people should be illegal because "pleasure is bad".
The government wasted millions of dollars in the 20's on alcohol prohibition and that failed just like marijuana prohibition has failed at everything other than putting decent people in prison for decades.
Prohibition is not about protecting people from themselves but rather about making them slaves to a particular groups servile self righteous morality
Hammerhead547 8 months ago
The war on drugs is an assault on human rights.For what other scenario can openly lead to wide spread prejudice and discrimination in regards to employment, housing, education, and government assistance other than drug use? America was once so proud to have abolished slavery, but now it has returned and the public has not even the wits to recognize it.
ipukesnshine 8 months ago
@ipukesnshine DISCRIMINATION SHOULD BE USED. Nobody should be hired for jobs if they are "vegging out" on weed half the time. An assault on human rights? You are a dope head that's why you can't think clearly. The only thing drugs are an assault on is an individual's ability to use their mind properly to make wise decisions.
warriorspikes51 8 months ago
@warriorspikes51 First of all tax payer dollars should not be used to prevent an issue that should be a "personal problem." There are better uses for taxes, and drug use can be prevented much cheaper with methods such as increasing education and rehabilitation using private healthcare. Perhaps then YOU could invest in increasing YOUR education and present some convincing arguments to prove your point instead of resorting to using 'ad hominem' philosophical fallacies.
ipukesnshine 8 months ago
BTW.. The war on drugs hasn't failed. It's going exactly the way the government planned it out.
RedNYello505 8 months ago
paladono 8 months ago
Stoners stop saying "legalize it" cuz it'll never happen it's a bigger issue than that. The government knows wtf they're doing. They're killing us on purpose fuck this government!!!!!
RedNYello505 8 months ago
I think I know why Weed is illegal
It's bcoz if the government legalizes & regulates weed & taxes it, more people would steer away from OTC drugs, prescription drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, & hard illegal drugs & more people would start smoking weed (more than there already is) Ppl will start replacing cigarettes with joints, & if the ppl don't smoke cigarettes & drink alcohol or poison their bodies with prescription pills, less & less ppl would die & that's NOT what the government wants. So ston
RedNYello505 8 months ago
Politician: "Drugs are bad m'kay, just say no children."
*Takes a swig of whiskey*
Politician: "I mean look at me kids, i don't do drugs, and look at how i turned out!"
*Takes another swig of whiskey*
Kids: "............really...?"
drpeppa2357 8 months ago
To bad in the Netherlands they are proposing a ban on tourists in the coffee shops
robm425 8 months ago
The biggest drug dealers is the New world order controlled US government.....look up CIA drug trafficking........The war on drugs is a fraud, its a war on the American people.....We are now living in a fascist police state.......Its so funny how they try selling us tyranny in the name of security.... Security = tyranny
MegaResistence 8 months ago 15
@MegaResistence I still have all my freedoms so wtf are you talking about you conspiracy nutjob
Sneezlebob 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife drugs are not hard to get. even for kids. thats the sad point
yankeepunk3000 8 months ago
wait we had a war on drugs? Is america no longer gonna help the Cartels??? =0
yankeepunk3000 8 months ago
The Government makes too much money from the war on drugs to stop.
Lock3d85 8 months ago
@Lock3d85 That's why you'll never see decriminalization. They don't call it the "criminal" justice system for nothing. It's all about $... always has been, always will be. ;)
eagle1023 8 months ago
Yeah how about now we apply that same logic to gun rights....
MirageScience 8 months ago
i think legalization would have to be a republican initiative. if the dems tried it, they would run for the hills the minute some jack-ass suggested that they were trying to kill our children. but the rupugs will never do it either. this won't happen in my lifetime, and i'm young. sucks.
babyfran05 8 months ago
zero coverage of this story from mainstream media
mikebig420 8 months ago
listen those companies that own prisons are publicly traded, and their stocks are based on how many people they have in their jails.
The more ways to get people into their jails the more their companies are worth on the stock market.
We make things laws by allowing them to be enforced, authorities try and apply immoral laws then they are immoral and not deserving of their position
Want drugs to be legal, do them as you wish in a responsible manner (like booze) cops stop you fight for your rights
geebus80 8 months ago
@HybridFreak412 Decriminalize: to eliminate criminal penalties or remove legal restrictions = it's legal now.....you got to read a little bit more my friend.
but i dont care if you call it decriminalize...legalize or whatever still DOES NOT WORK!
nowcj 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife That's such a good point, unless... one lives in reality. The fact that you immediately go for the "OMG SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN" spin shows that you have no reasonable or factual arguments for your case. In other words: You are just making stuff up.
obijan42 8 months ago
creats job opportunity for criminals and makes it more accessible than to legalize it and put regulations. I got into a debate with my sister and brother in law about why we should legalize but they said "it leaves a bad impression to other countries, we put our dignity at risk to legalize drugs." and that "weed is a gateway drug" my sister still believes that weed for healthy functioning people is bad for them, but for people with weak immune systems like cancer, oh totally fine. why? who cares
wetdream09 8 months ago
@wetdream09 weed for people who are ill and on kimo and in pain use weed to lesson that pain. for people who are sick weed helps them calm the pain. for people who are not sick weed hightens the blood. speeds up the process. for the sick it makes people feel ok, for people who just use it, it makes the heart beat faster and so on, like a mini steroid. but again weed has no real harmfull problems except some lung issues if you use ALOT of it. and loss of brain cells, but so does everything else
yankeepunk3000 8 months ago
@yankeepunk3000 yup. everything an anything can be harmful to you.. poor weed just gets picked on alot ;(
wetdream09 8 months ago
This report makes one huge assumption. And that's that the war on drugs is about drugs, and not about a for-profit prison industry that makes billions off housing inmates for years for drug possession.
Illmatic1988 8 months ago
Spending money on a War on Drugs that is impossible to win.
Sounds like an American strategy to me. :)
underbjorn 8 months ago 34
If you want to end the war on drugs vote for Ron Paul.
idontfkinknow1234 8 months ago
Lol governments care about facts? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ThePlatinumlich 8 months ago
I wish people who stand in the way of legalization would be tortured horribly.
ArtypNk 8 months ago
If this were suddenly a perfect world, our government would end it's prohibition on drugs immediately and shift its focus and resources toward the white collar criminals on Wall Street who caused more harm in the past decade than drugs have caused in the past century. But since this is the exact opposite of a perfect world, our government will continue to do the exact opposite of what it should be doing.
Celephaith 8 months ago
Legalizing would simply destroy the ..."For Profit Prisons" !
luchpockets 8 months ago
You can't state that specific types of drug use went down or up as proper evidence. The popularity of different substances is variable. The only real statistic is the total level of drug use. Stating the Netherlands had heroin usage drop over a specific time period is not sufficient evidence to prove that legalising works.
starfucker00 8 months ago
Next item in the news: the sky is blue on sunny days.
MomoTheBellyDancer 8 months ago 23
@MomoTheBellyDancer What?! It's blue when it's sunny!?! OMG!!
TheIronTank 8 months ago
@TheIronTank Blue sky...yeah I remeber those, weren't there some pretty fluffy white clouds that would roll along. Sometimes they looked like animals or things you knew, and the air was clean to breath.
Well that's all gone, until we end this bull shit game of being controlled by the people we pay to speak for us, the next one that does the new method of operation should be dis-appeared, just like they would do to any of us.
Time to stand uo against the machine, remember the 60's I do!!
loowood2 8 months ago
Register republican and vote for the least corrupt politician, Ron Paul.
hodoprime 8 months ago
Land of the free? Shouldn't people be able to do with their body as they wish provided they do not harm others in the process? I understand that some will use the excuse that "weed makes you go out of your normal state of mind", as does alcohol- many people have died as a result of this. Yet we don't ban alcohol. If you're going to ban weed, why not alcohol? And since I'm a "militant" atheist/agnostic, why not ban religion, or any other form of dogma for your own good?
TurboDally 8 months ago
The funny thing is that the commission said that is should be decriminalized, but not legalized. WHAT?! In other words they want America to stop sending people to jail and start sending them to rehab. If the prison lobby starts to weaken even a little bit, then you'll start to see a private rehab lobby come into play. It will still be punished, just not with jail time. Don't be fooled.
Thayer79 8 months ago
The Netherlands is leading the charge to bring an end to drug violence. Yet even if the Netherlands discovered a cure for cancer, American blowhards would probably say "That cure will never work here in America, the culture is totally different!" You're not special America! Follow the example of others and end this fucking war before more lives are needlessly lost.
QueenOliver 8 months ago
It makes sense that the usage would go down. If it's legal there are no dealers with incentive to get people hooked. Of course if you legalize them you have to make advertising them (particularly to children) illegal.
TheNakedAtheist 8 months ago
@TheNakedAtheist Exactly. Otherwise we get a McDonalds situation where kids are directly targeted. Same with other junk foods. The government hasn't stopped that though. :(
soundslave 8 months ago
I was always curious why people would advocate legalizing weed but not all the other drugs. You need to do them all or not bother.
niemanickurwa 8 months ago
not really news for most people, this has been said for along time. there have been lots of reports and the simple fact is the government doesn't care. its not about whats right or wrong its about supporting cooperations and winning the next election using scare mongering tactics in their campaigning
Mr420Cheese 8 months ago
I heard glue and fuel are legally available in hundreds of countries around the world - and they are still not overrun by glue and fuel sniffers!!!
BusterXXXL 8 months ago
@BusterXXXL,
Actually there are lots of glue & gasoline sniffers around the world. Maybe the govt should declare a war on gasoline.
steviesbackbitch 8 months ago
@steviesbackbitch yes, if you put all the glue & fuel sniffers around the world in one cage, you need a big cage. But compared to the populace, it is still a negligible problem, especially outside of slum areas, although everybody COULD do it.
I think that pretty much blasts those dark prophecies, how apocalypse would ensue, if hard drugs ever got legally available. Glue and gasoline ARE pretty hard drugs, if used as such, and they ARE freely available.
BusterXXXL 8 months ago
Legalize drugs, make them boring, and usage will go down.
djitalis 8 months ago
Ana, lookin yummy
AndNoted 8 months ago
i think drug cartels need to be called terrorists because if you live on the border you should know how things really are. if you don't then imagine groups of armed men having shootouts in the streets with guns as strong as the military.
stolendrugs 8 months ago
3 thousand Americans die in the towers and you guys make a big deal, 30 plus thousand Mexicans die, mehh who cares. keep wondering why the world hates you
ucdeBZ 8 months ago
Don't even start talking about the loss of human life. Those in power to change the laws don't give a flying fuck about human life when money's involved.
It's all about money. Say : "Illegal drugs don't make as much money for YOU as legal ones." Guarantee them that by legalizing drugs more money will get into their pockets. Betcha they'd be really happy about that.
computerjero 8 months ago
I propose a war on dumb fuck politicians who disagree with the most basic common sense arguments.. Maybe that'll finally clean up this country..
seanotube85 8 months ago 3
U All remember Nancy Regan's "Dumbest Anti-Drug Slogan in History!"..."JUST SAY NO!" *LOL*! She Really went GANGSTA on all the Crack/Heroin addicts with that one!
MrsD7777 8 months ago
@MrsD7777,
'Just say no' makes sense b/c that is all ppl have to do to avoid drug addiction. Don't use the drug(s) in the 1st place. Saying no costs nothing & is effective. War on drugs costs billions & doesn't work.
steviesbackbitch 8 months ago
Belgium looked at the same report and in a newspaper poll 55% answered 'zero tolerance is the only solution'. There's plenty of idiocy and dementia in the world, believe you me.
BelgianBrain 8 months ago
Ok, now I'm waiting for an all-star commission to release a report on how the war on terrorism has failed.
SDub817 8 months ago
When drugs are legal, people do drugs.
When drugs are illegal, people do drugs.
So how do you stop people from doing drugs? You can't. That's the whole point. War on drugs? Peh! You might as well declare war on Sadness! Education can reduce drug use, but not eliminate it completely. As long as human beings have brains that desire altered perception, some of us will use drugs. It's a timeless part of our relationship with the biochemical world...and it's neither good nor bad.
icarus313 8 months ago 3
@icarus313 good ass comment.
WhatAxBrit 8 months ago
@icarus313 All right, but you are forgetting the impact they have in the lives of consumers in short and long term, and in society. I think what you are saying, though, helps to create a real concience about them, which is the only real way to deal with them ("deal" ´cos I couldn´t find a better word), instead of saying they are just "bad" or "prohibited".
kimbuo 8 months ago
@kimbuo
Yes that's right. Promoting an educated and serious understanding of the consequences of drug use is the best way forward. When drugs are legal, but people are shown by impartial and non-judgmental medical professionals the dangers of their use, people will be less inclined to get into drug use. A big issue with drug illegality is that it puts the problem of fighting addiction into the hands of law enforcement when it should be in the hands of doctors and mental health professionals.
icarus313 8 months ago
@SuperLonelyLife Alcohol/Hard Liquor is legal. Guns are legal. Nuff said'. "Drugs don't kill people, people kill people". That is on top of the fact that just because you don't see it in your speck sized pocket of the world, Drug prohibition basically "KILLS EVERYONE". Look at American Ghettos. Brazillian favellas. Look at Mexico, that country is literally falling apart next door because of American prohibition. ETC ETC.
You are so one sighted. Horrifically so. Everyone can get drugs anyways.
MrSockoOck 8 months ago
The Creator created all things.Kids these days use household items that can kill or severely damage a young person.Law and governments are formed to keep a person or people from harming ANOTHER or others,not themselves.And if that is supposed to be the roll of government, to make sure its citizens are"safe,"then they have a right to do just about anything they make up to justify whatsoever their aims may be.Yahuah sent Yahusha Who said that it is what comes out of the heart,not what is consumed.
777denny1 8 months ago
If not an outright decriminalization I guess we really should let states have medical marijuana. Change comes in small steps anyways.
sikvenum82 8 months ago
40,000 people dead? i think not, more like 200,000. dont forget the every day discoveries of MASS GRAVES including hundreds of thousands of bodies discovered recently
robertha 8 months ago
But how would CIA get it's extra funding from?
saadasim 8 months ago
why can't we just legalize drugs and then use a tenth of the money we used on that "war" to educate the public. It would more than suffice, it would stop the violence (mostly) and by no means increase drug use, with the extra education, people would know what they were getting into. Goddamn, people are so illogical.
ImmaDwarfKicker 8 months ago
@ImmaDwarfKicker the only thing truly illogical is your stupidity of taking the Lord's name in vain.
warriorspikes51 8 months ago
@warriorspikes51 Excuse me?
ImmaDwarfKicker 8 months ago