Drugs have been illegal my whole life, and while I'm proud to say I have never done them, you would be hard pressed to find a single high school in America where there aren't kids doing drugs. Obviously drugs being illegal hasn't solved the problem, all it does is fund the drug cartels and lead to killing Mexicans and Americans.
Funny little fact often not considered, many people get into drugs as a way to rebel against something, breaking the law is the way they like to rebel. Legalize it, a fewer people will likely get started in it. Just saying ...
Good argument. But seriously, your videos could be cut down to two minutes if you script your arguments instead of running to your camera every time you have thought.
I may have already said this but in regards to the DEA and there list of restricted chemicals. I just came up with a theoretical procedure to produce amphetamines with chemicals that couldn't be on the list because they are used everyday in industry and households. I don't think they could ever ban every chemical that could be used, but I wouldn't put it past them.
I in some was tend to agree with Lee. I sat down and came up with a theoritical synthesis of amphetamines with chemicals that are not on the DEA's list. Are they going to start regulation everything.
Wonderful video, it's refreshing to see others view the drug war as I do. I may detest drug abuse, but it isn't my right to tell others what they should do, provided they're acting peacefully. We need to realize that the well intentioned policies of our government have failed and degrade inner cities. PS, everyone go and download Doren's book at the link in the description, it's only a dollar and gives some well thought out points on our educational system from his perspective.
2. if the greatest threat to this country legalizing Drugs is that no one will be at the mall and everyone will be listening to less justin bieber and more Pink Floyd then we have nothing to lose.
Secondly, in Portugal drug use fell apparently through the mechanism that addicts, no longer viewed as criminal by the authorities, were much more inclined to seek help and rehabilitation treatment.
In Holland, marijuana use by the domestic population fell after legalisation. Why? The dutch government are quoted as saying "we succeeded in making marijuana boring".
Hey Lee, I'm curious, what do you think of the countries that have these kinds of drugs not only legal, but regulated? They have very specific parameters (similar to how we have "smoke-only" zones in special designated areas), and it appears to be working for them quite well. I believe the most renown of these countries is Amsterdam. I might be wrong, but what is your opinion?
@Altalic77 I got a bit of a laugh from it actually. It just is a typical American stereotype that they don't know anything about topography outside their own town, and you kind of proved it :P
Do you think legalizing drugs would make organized crime go away? I think it would increase violence in countries where the problem originally spawns. Why? If organized crime is unable to profit from the sell of illicit drugs, wouldn't they look into other forms of crime, like kidnapping and extortion in order to make up for the possible loss of profit that may come from the legalization of drugs?
Mafias of today aren't like they were back in the day. Today they run construction companies and waste management. I have a goomba that came to open an account for our trash bin at my job. Basically, they're more business now where they bribe under the tables, and do things more white collar type. So they do have other things to turn to.
@amazaag00 "kidnapping and extortion" Both those are way harder and have far more risks then just selling dope. Selling drugs is the best way to make money for any criminal organisation cause its easy, its cheap, it makes a lot of money and its virtually risk free. I mean kidnapping someone, thats like a month working hard, having a whole city breathing down your neck and you might make a million while those bosses make a million a day selling drugs.
@quicknuss they wouldnt even go to jail at all . they would probably use their executive power to set them free. most people who suffer are minorities and the poor , but if you're upper or middle you wont even go to jail for smoking pot.
Unfortunately, I don't see this being fixed. It's not just drugs but also prostitution and weapons. Mexico has also become a staging ground for Hezbollah and Hamas. It's the first time in my life that I have thought "We're going to have to get on our knees and beg and plead with God for safety and protection." - and I'm not even hardcore religious. No politician can fix this.
1:45 "Unless you wanna just invade Mexico with an army..."
Already happened. Cities like Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez have had their entire police force replaced with the Mexican military forces. Escalation still won't stop the spread of cartel violence.
The government has no constitutional power to ban the personal use of any drug. They can, however, ban any interstate sales of drugs through the commerce clause
Shepple fed into the lie of prohibition which was racist in enactment and is an evil today that supports drug lords and police forces in a combined effort to harm it's own people. Even cops are waking up to the futility of this war and would rather chase real criminals that bring violence upon us.Glad to hear kindred spirits (by the way, I am sober 25 years and can get my "drug" on any corner store!)
@MAZDAKPRODUCTION No, Ron Paul would solve the wars that we start. But he would do to much when Iran begins bombing are country. But who fucking cares we'll be high.
I agree. And I think I got an answer to your question. The reason because so many drug abusers do not seek help is because they will be punished for their disease (addiction). We simply have to provide every substance abuser the help they personally need. I think that if we start treating addicts like humans they fill stop feeling ashamed of their problem.
I couldn't agree more with your video, a war on drugs is such an absurd idea. Legalizing all drugs is by far the best solution.
First, I doubt if cocaine became legal I'd start using it, and I'm sure others feel the same way. Legalizing drugs will not make users of us all, it would not change culture for the worse.
second, pretty much everything you said in the video regarding deaths, incarcerations, etc. being inexcusable results.
The trouble goes beyond that, im from México, and here we know that the DEA is cleaning money for the drug cartels, and in an operative called "Fast and furious" E.U. give weapons to the cartels. Not an internet Myth, plain facts, admited by both sides. By the way, my country, asks for weapons to america, and they are not for free, and they have interests Here the trouble is are the bussines this war represents. But is lame seeing news about 15 years old boys, moms, underage kids murder for it
In America instead of actually dealing with social problems, like drug use, we turn to punishment, stigmatization, and incarceration. Highly indicative of an extremely unhealthy society.
HowTheWorldWorks, if they legalized all drugs tomorrow, would you start smoking crack? No? Well I agree, I wouldn't do drugs regardless of legality, because it's stupid. If drugs were legalized I don't think a lot more people would do start doing drugs, I feel like the people who want to do drugs and enjoy them are already do drugs right now.
Legalizing drugs have many benefits... first it can be taxed and regulated, meaning the product is not tainted, and laws can be made restricting people of a certain age who can use it, right now a 10 year old can buy cocaine from any dealer he wants, but can't buy beer at a store.
Also more people will be more willing to seek treatment from drug use without fear of persecution from the law. Jail is no place to get help for addiction. Portugal drug laws have proven these theories.
So who's gonna pay for the treatment? Taxpayers? Charitable organizations? Santa Claus?
Or by treat it "just like obesity or anorexia" did you mean give it lip service and let people who "slip up" fend for themselves?
I'd like to believe your intentions are altruistic, Lee, but given your previous critiques regarding programs like universal healthcare, you'll have to excuse me for being a bit dubious.
@superpoopoop Throwing them in jail is really expensive, and immoral cause it's their body and they can do what they want with it. Even if it was more expensive to treat it as a medical issue than to throw them in jail (I doubt that it is though), I wouldn't care simply because throwing people in jail for doing something with their own body is AWFUL.
@superpoopoop - Stop drug abuse through a war? Okay.
So who's going to pay for the war on drugs? Taxpayers? Charitable organizations? Santa Claus?
Seriously, throwing money at a problem doesn't solve anything. I'm glad to see Lee stick by his principles rather than pander to the conservatives that say we should be 'tough on crime.'
I agree, the drug "war" is dumb and throwing people in jail for substance abuse doesn't solve anything.
What I was driving at is ending the "war" under the guise of humanitarian concern is disingenuous at best if you don't intend to support a treatment alternative.
@Elvishairdude89 so do pharmaceuticals... im pretty sure meth was born out of the need to get high because coke wasnt around or because it wasnt powerful enough... i still believe if some on is an addict.. they should defiantly seek MEDICAL aid... wasted parents will not due.. if the parents are using the children should be put in foster care.. but foster care need help because that program is failing... but throwing the parents in prison wont make the probs go away...
legalize it... legalize it all.. wed decrease prison populations... the drugs wouldn't be worth any thing because they would be legal... then the cartels would loose most of their funding.... plus when you get put in to the prison industrial complex.. its hard to get back in to "society" ..
I understand how getting rid of the drug war might work for things like weed or most of the other drugs but I'm really concerned about how applicable this is to things like meth that people make in their homes. Because people can just make it and it's very dangerous for the people around those homes. I don't see how things like meth could be regulated without the SWAT teams breaking up labs but I would like to see more treatment and less punishment for all the people caught in the trap ofdrugs.
@ DarthAardvark1977 And you posted nothing but simpleton thought bubbles. LedWhisky69 crushed them all. You're like a fly every smart person wants to crush, thing is now you won't go away. GO AWAY. You're simpleton thought bubbles have been crushed. We're not your internet buddy.
Heres the lie. You are saying pot does nothing for cancer patients wich goes against everystudy ever done by a credible university. This is where your argument dies. Asshat.
I cant stand you right wing fuckholes telling people bs you read from faux news. We are responcible for mexican drug cartels. we dictate there sales not mexico you giant fuckface. Drugs are going to happen either we do our own or some other country will. grow the fuck up bitch.
@LedWhisky69 Is this the part where you declare victory when all youve done is spew crap about how aids victims deserve to die because they are dirty pot smoking hippies? how is that a straw man when thats what you believe?
@LedWhisky69 I think your a homeschooled fuckface. A boxed wine drinking fuckface that doesnt understand what vomiting your insides out actually means. TELLING CANCER Patients that they cannot smoke weed because it upsets you somehow because you either cant handle drugs or someone who smoked weed, beat your bitch ass somewhere down the line . Grow up, weed doesnt kill anyone. It has fuck all to do with mexican cartels and everything to do with the fact that your a tool.
@DarthAardvark1977 I haven't told cancer patients anything, you idiot. I have cancer patients in my family. Not ONE of them needed marijuana to get through it nor did they even think to request it. Your argument is just hogwash and nonsense. There are legal, prescription medications that can do ALL the things that marijuana can do ONLY BETTER. That's a FACT. Just admit you wanna smoke pot and not get busted because that's all you're about, you damn liar. Just admit it.
@LedWhisky69 "Just admit you wanna smoke pot and not get busted" What is so wrong with that? You understand that putting people in prison costs money? You realize that putting people in prison for smoking a drug that is less harmful then alcohol is a HUGE waste of money and potential workers?
Didn't you listen to what Lee said? Stop comparing drugs to things that already are legal. It isn't helpful to assert that "there is nothing wrong with pot", when there in fact is.
Yes, alcoholism is bad. I concede that, but that does not mean we should throw alcoholics in prison. See how this works? We need to treat drug addiction similarly. Throwing people in jail, as you rightly point out, does not help society; however, it doesn't help the individual either.
@insidetrip101 Who cares if it doesn't helps the individual? No seriously, it might sound harsh but we don't need to go from one nanny state to the other. We do not HAVE to help people with addiction just like we don't HAVE to treat people with obesity and/or a poor diet. If they want help there should be the best available but people need to realize that people are responsible and smart enough to live their life's without the nanny state holding their hand every step of the way.
@philateliceun "Who cares if it doesn't helps the individual?"
Easy answer, people who do not want to see a significant decline in culture. You might not care about that, but lots of people do and is exactly the reason why they oppose drugs, and therefore support the drug war.
If you do not make this concession, then it is significantly less likely that you will ever convince someone that they were wrong about supporting the drug war.
@insidetrip101 "If you do not make this concession, then it is significantly less likely that you will ever convince someone that they were wrong about supporting the drug war."
Then that is their own fault cause if they are so concerned with the decline of culture/society then they should have been opposed to the drug war to begin with, nothing has destroyed American society/culture more then the drug wars. The government has NO job in baby sitting, people should and can be responsible.
@insidetrip101 Why do we think drugs are these very dangerous and bad things? We don't see food that way, we don't see cars that way, we don't see alcohol that way while they all cause a lot more suffering and pain then drugs. Drugs become dangerous when they are illegal, when they are in the hands of gangs and sociopaths, thats why there is such a large gang problem, gangs make literally 100s of millions of dollars from selling illegal drugs. Drug war = cause of nearly every American problem.
@philateliceun "Why do we think drugs are these very dangerous and bad things?"
Because they are addictive substances and ruin lives of addicts and those around them. Many people do see alcohol as a dangerous substance, this is why we have drinking ages and regulations on alcohol. Cars aren't necessarily addictive, but you can't just travel whatever speed you want on the highway.
This idea that all regulation is bad is nonsense. You have to be reasonable.
@insidetrip101 Yeah but so is food, food is actually more addictive then any drug. People's life's are ruined by fat and sugar yet we don't lock up food companies and we don't force people into treatment, we solved that problem by simple education. And ofcourse drugs need to be regulated, I don't see how anybody would disagree with that, the whole problem of the drug war is that it makes drugs uncontrollable.
@insidetrip101 But we shouldn't over do it. The drug war should show people that centralized planning and regulation does only work to an extent. We should see drugs like we see any other source of enjoyment. There is this whole stigma about drugs will make you into a gutter laying junkie who is highly addicted but that is so overblown. Only a small percentage gets addicted, just like a small percentage gets addicted to food or other things.
@philateliceun "We should see drugs like we see any other source of enjoyment."
Well, all I have to do is point to Charlie Sheen to show an example of what you don't want to be. I've never seen anyone hooked on only sex, only alcohol, or only food be that over the top. Therefore, I think you are wrong, but for the sake of argument, I'll agree.
If you are right, then you still can't say that. It simply will turn off people that may otherwise agree with you. It's called rhetoric.
@philateliceun ". . . waste of money and potential workers"? How about it's nobody's business what drugs you take? Utilitarian arguments sound like you're talking about the benefits of giving fresher grass to your cattle and not at all like you're talking about adult human beings capable of making their own decisions.
@philateliceun It comes off like you're pandering to slave owners. If you want to stoop down to the level of "right wing" folks, you can point out that Jesus would have probably smoked pot. The "potential workers" bit especially gave me a chill.
It's scary when people start to think of themselves and their neighbors as tax fodder for the state.
@Piotrek127 Now you are overreacting a bit. The society we live in prospers through economic stability, it just is, we don't live in the jungle or on the grasslands, we live in cities and villages where you get your basic necessities through money. If the economy becomes unstable people get less prosperous and the standard of living goes down. If you have incarcerated 3% of all adults you are hurting the economy and essentially degrading the standard of living.
@philateliceun I agree: people in the civilized world don't live in the jungle. Economic prosperity comes from economic freedom, not just on this particular occasion.
Don't go talking like a right-winger now with all that "economic stability" talk :)
@Piotrek127 How is it thinking that they are tax fodders? If there are more people to clean up the streets everybody gets better from it, if there are more people working as doctors everybody gets better from it, if there are more people working as teachers, well you get the point. Potential workers may sound like a slave owner but its not meant that way. Its just meant as people who work contrary to people who don't/can't work because they have been locked up for some drugs.
@philateliceun Those people work in the prisons. For like 5 bucks a day, and the prisons make millions. See the problem? Private prisons.... what a joke.
@d0md0mt0mt0m Indeed, it wouldn't be too far fatched to call it the holocaust against criminals. Once you are a criminal you are nothing more then a number, a slave to the state. The only difference is that criminals aren't killed in massive numbers, yet.
@philateliceun Smoking Weed makes you a better person. You see everything with a completely clear mind. It allows you to see patterns and put things together that people wouldn't in a sober state because we are trained to utilize the left side of our brain through our entire lives and THC helps us to utilize the right half and see through the Government and media programming. People used drugs freely before the 30's and we had the biggest boom ever from 1870 - 1930.
Leave it to a giant right winger to finally say enough is enough about this bs drug war. Lee I salute you sir.Its called personal freedom. Pot is the best drug on the planet to stop people from throwing up food thats just a fact. I dont give 2 shits of a fuck weather it gives someone a buzz either as long as it helps them live when they are doing chemo. Pot helps you eat and no other drug does it better thats just a fact.
Leave it to a giant right winger to finally say enough is enough about this bs drug war. Lee I salute you sir.Its called personal freedom. Pot is the best drug on the planet to stop people from throwing up food thats just a fact. I dont give 2 shits of a fuck weather it gives someone a buzz either as long as it helps them live when they are doing chemo. Pot helps you eat and no other drug does it better thats just a fact.
Of course, the drug war should end. But what should the alternative be to throwing people in jail? I have a solution. Treat drugs the SAME way we have treated cigarettes and tobacco for the last 30 years or so. Where the War on Drugs has obviously been a huge failure, the "war against tobacco" has been a huge success. Let's examine the difference in how these two "wars" were fought. What was the weapon used against tobacco? EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC! The same weapon should be used for other drugs
It is a simply fallacy to believe that legalizing marijuana will mark the end of the drug cartels. Think that the day it's legalized here in the States that they will just get up and go home? Think again. You know what this will cause? Escalation. Instead of marijuana, they will focus on harder and harder drugs including currently legal, prescription only medication which are ALREADY a big problem. Legalize drugs to what end? That's the question you need to ask yourself. Use foresight.
@LedWhisky69 I love the slippery slope argument. "As soon as we let them start dancing with eachother the next thing you know they will be having pre marital sex with bovines. You are soo typical.
@LedWhisky69 gangs use the money from softer drugs like marijuana to fund the harder ones. Drugs like meth, heroin and crack take a lot more money to fund. for a better look, I refer you to an article written in the 90's by conservative heavy weight William F. Buckley jr. entitled "the war on drugs is lost". Google it, it is the first link.
@LedWhisky69 Pot is the least of your problems but some giant asshat such as you could never understand that. Pot is like cotton candy. Harmless and purile. The worst drug on the planet is vodka and its legal. I wish you knew anything about the word "fallacy" wich is your entire position against reefer. I dont even smoke the shit because I dont like the buzz but I would never try to pass a law against it. More twinkie consumption.mwa ha ha
@LedWhisky69 Know this. Every time a cancer patient dies because of some jerkoff like you or some aids patient dies because of some jerkoff like you. It only goes to show how apathetic you right wing pricks are. I hope you get cancer and puke every day. Vomit your insides out. Watch your best friend die of ewings sarcoma you humongous pile of dung.
@DarthAardvark1977 Why don't YOU know THIS, asshole. Nothing I said even comes CLOSE to suggesting we ban cancer and AIDS medications. WTF is wrong with you to talk to people like that? I hope you GROW A DAMN BRAIN, how about that? Take care, pyscho.
@DarthAardvark1977 Slippery slope? LOL! It's called common goddamn sense, something you obviously don't have. The Mexican drug cartels currently make about 60% of their profits from marijuana. Guess where the other 40% comes from? It includes the HARDER drugs, dopey. Think meth, heroine, coke. If you cut off one source of their funding, they're ramp up the others. Simple economics. Think they'll just disappear off the face of the Eart, dumbass? LOL! You're DUMB!
@LedWhisky69 "oh when you buy pot it supports terrorism" jaggoff. "IT LEADS TO HARDER DRUGS"..... YOU GIGANTIC JERKOFF. Remember that when you are suffering in your bed telling people that pot leads to mexican cartels offering you heroine fuckhead. Grow a friggen brain.
@LedWhisky69 I think your a homeschooled fuckface. A boxed wine drinking fuckface that doesnt understand what vomiting your insides out actually means. TELLING CANCER Patients that they cannot smoke weed because it upsets you somehow because you either cant handle drugs or someone who smoked weed, beat your bitch ass somewhere down the line . Grow up, weed doesnt kill anyone. It has fuck all to do with mexican cartels and everything to do with the fact that your a tool.
1. All mexico did was decriminalize small amounts. That might have made "consumers" safe, but dealers were still below the law. So, in essence, dealing with narcotics in Mexico is still illegal.
2. Gun control only protects criminal elements; a rise in gun control will lead to a rise in firearm violence.
3. Competition to old gangs happen regardless of legalization status; its a filthy lucrative venture, primarily because of its legal status.
@TheRetiredtrucker "the number of heroin addicts has dropped by more than 30% since 1983" this is the result of what I said.... The info is from the Netherlands. Actually this subject cannot be debated in comments, there is too much info. I would suggest you just do the research and enlighten yourself. The drug war is a front to imprison people and take more money from tax payers for a perpetually failing system. In short, the drug war is It's bulllshit.
@TheRetiredtrucker With that, there is no way for me to show you where I get the info for my other comment that people will use drugs either way. The only way for you to conclude that is to either use logic and data. Or become a drug addict. The drug war is an absolute fail and does not prevent users from using. If a drug addict has to walk two states to get drugs, he/she will. The drug war is absolutely not a solution and does not target the problem.
@TheRetiredtrucker consider the unseen; a lot of the theft that goes on today is between rival dealers. There is reduced cost in legalized drugs; the worst addicts may still resort to stealing, but theft will be less because it is easier to obtain the drug cheaply. Also, considering taxation is theft to a monopoly that overspends, it is hard to say theft would be increased by a decrease in government involvement against property rights.
@4lifejackhammer It's not just the cost of the drugs, it's the use of drugs making the person unable to function in society. Not being able to hold a job, raise their kids ect. Crack cost what $10 - $50, not a huge amount, but if you have no income, you will steal to get it.
@TheRetiredtrucker the question then is; is the theft from junkies in the legalized age going to be worse than the theft from government's attempts to ban the hard drugs. I'm convinced that society would be better off, even if hard drug users increased. Mind you it would not increase dramatically; the vast majority of people would stay away from hard drugs even if it were legalized.
@4lifejackhammer No I dont think milions are going to line up to try injecting heroin. Never really saw the point of prosecuting for the soft drugs (pot hash ect), but the hard.... not just the theft, its how the junkies affect those around them. Not only the stealing, but the abuse and neglect they do to their children/families.
@TheRetiredtrucker alcoholics are also overly abusive to their families and ruin themselves. We can't, as a society, blame ourself for the actions of idiots. To hold ourself to this notion is to be the parent to everybody...to the point where anything that could cause us harm with enough ideological backing is restricted or banned. Resources that may go to providing shelter for the abused is diverted to trying to limit supply; it has not worked, and therefore ruins more families than it helps.
@4lifejackhammer I'm not saying that alcohol is harmless either,,,, but 25% of people who have their first beer or vodka do not become addicted.... unlike heroin. Most alcoholics can actually function in society, most junkies cannot
@TheRetiredtrucker so, does that mean if less than 25% of people become addicted to a substance at first try, its okay? Or the ability to function after rehab? Let's not forget that it's more difficult for illegal drug users to get rehab without repercussion, and that the people who are willing to try heroin are more chemically inclined to begin with. Resources for treatment and resources for the abused can exist, if not for the drain of the drug war.
@4lifejackhammer Didn't say that at all,,, said 25% of people who try heroin the first time become addicted, that is not true with alcohol. so how many times do we send them to rehab? What percentage of people sent to rehab are successful and stay off drugs permanently?
@TheRetiredtrucker does that even matter? The question is not how successful we imagine the case to be; the question is whether keeping a drug war will stop the problem better than legalization. In one case, the cure is to go to prison, where dealers and gangs exist, while the other makes for no punishment and going to a place that at least claims to be for the patient, not the "rest of society," even though themselves getting cured is good for society.
@4lifejackhammer Kinda does, if we need to keep forking out money to "Cure" people who choose to first take a chemical that they know will adversely effect them and their families. People who have a 50/50 chance of going right back onto the drug after a min $10,000 treatment. How many times do we put them into rehab? How many property crimes will they commit between stints in rehab? It's not cancer or parkinson's, they intentionally brought this on themselves
@XxxxExclusivexxxX well, i guess its still up to ideological belief, because my uncle was a narc detective for 9 years before being ousted from that position because of inner-office politics and my dad was one of the people who risked their life raiding drug houses. They both agree that hard drugs do nothing but ruin lives...and they both agree that what they do does not stop the problem.
@chuck3668831 well said. That is the main fear of legalization; it will hurt society. Tobacco, though, is legal; its recognized as being bad for you, and hard drugs are recognized as worse for you. The only places in America where tobacco is fought over is in the case of bootlegged tobacco in places that have high sin taxes on them.
If heroin was legalized today, would you do it? Thumbs up if you would, its anonymous. I'd honestly be surprised to see 1. The people willing to do hard drugs will do hard drugs regardless. The people willing to do pot for non-medicinal purposes will do it. The question is both moral and economic; is it right for the government to tell people what they can do to their bodies, and is the cost to society worse for trying to ban it.
I'm so glad that someone took the time to raise awareness about this destructive policy that we have. The solution to the problem does not lie in government protecting people from themselves. We need to let people make their own decisions and eliminate the aggressive policy that is the war on drugs.
Mark, It's called capitalism - a system you love so much. Drugs are a massive industry, much like the arms trade, sex trade, technology, which all exploit and kill for profit; while governments and alike do very little to intervene on a macro scale. Additionally, let's not focus solely on Mexico - it's global. Get an equal perspective of how societies are broken, exploited by capitalist, leaving low paid jobs, no jobs, or the alternative to sell drugs etc, thus just another exploitative trap.
Sadly, it has to do with more things than just drug trafficking. It has to do with power, and the corruption of the government, drugs are just the bad guys' income to do all the awful things they do.
Do you think he has to auto-focus the camera on his face since his library is so small? Or do you really think he's read all 20 of those books behind him.
Oh well at least he knows which way the Earth spins.
@PolitcalIslam Disposion has nothing to do with environment. Drug addiction is a behavior. There are plenty of rehab clinics that don't treat as a desease & are successfull
@PolitcalIslam if disposision has to do with environment then it's not a desease. You don't get cancer from up brining. Anecdotes are obsevation (in this case of intirely irrelavent & sparce examples) Thanks for admitting that. & thanks for the spelling comment. Proves you can't debate with facts.
@GlennRoxWyo Disposition≠predestination. Disposition is the tendency to be influenced by your environment in a certain way. Your environment only does so much. There is an interaction between the two. Most people are equally likely to try drugs, but the likelihood of becoming an addicts varies significantly. You're trolling, right? You responded to my comment you thought was ad hominem with another ad hominem comment. It has nothing to do with the validity of your arguments, but damn, child!
@PolitcalIslam I'm not trolling & pointing the finger at me & accusing me of what you are doing won't make me go away. & disposition & predestination are not same thinas you try to insist here. Predestination means detetermined in the pre-existance. Have you even read a book? Go practic your taqqiya elsewhere muzzy
2) Its not a big deal if you have a real leader who wants to get somthing done fast and acuratly not just profiteer on the way.. its almost like how if we had a leader in the war on terror we would have just droned binladen 10 years ago instead of invading 2 countries and pissing on the soverenty of 2 others, getting involved in the process of torture, rape, murder of millions of second class peoples i guess since 3000 of us meant around 2 million in Iraq alone.
@islamconstitution No DUDE or Dumbass.. had 2 say it :) As long as there is any usable land and people alive there will be drugs and "druglords". Droned him huh? cuz it's so precise we wouldnt hit non combatants making many more during the process. Marque and Reprisal. Huge fkn pricetag on his head woulda done it. All without losing our liberty to a Fourth Reich. The Furer was a strong efficient leader. Good luck with that comrade :)
I mentioned getting coroprations into the deal to monopolise the farming.. that kinda really fucks it up for drug dealers everywhere.. if you had a brain ofcourse to think about it.. and druglords can only farm the shit in far un-enhabited areas like the jungles in southamerica.. they cant do it otherwise.. so if you set a strick shoot at site policy in those areas and dont even give legal precedence to be there.. it also deals simply with the issue.. grow up idiot!
@islamconstitution Sure I do. However I am a Sovereign. A freeman. I will not be content with a Mother/Father Govt. Period. Civil discussion is preferable. Look back at who started the childish name calling buddy. Far from civil. Nice try though ;) Have a good one.
more people die in the drug war each year with Mexico than in all combined years in Iraq and Afghanistan.
RazdrazChelloveck 13 hours ago
Drugs have been illegal my whole life, and while I'm proud to say I have never done them, you would be hard pressed to find a single high school in America where there aren't kids doing drugs. Obviously drugs being illegal hasn't solved the problem, all it does is fund the drug cartels and lead to killing Mexicans and Americans.
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So you believe in Liberal ideals as well...good job! I'm glad you're not a total waste of cranial space.
ZatDudeOnline 1 day ago
So you believe in Liberal ideals as well...good job! I'm glad you're not a total waste of cranial space.
ZatDudeOnline 1 day ago
I am not a republican and I think that conservatives are ruining my country (Sweden), but this is an issue where I agree fully with Lee.
tgseason12 2 days ago
OMFG I agree with Lee ?!?!?!!? Just kidding. Good video man. Credit is due where credit is due.
TheeBeastradamus 5 days ago
i need to ask would you identify yourself as socialy liberal and economically conservative
TheCreeperNetwork 1 week ago
@TheCreeperNetwork he is a libertarian.
printo69 6 days ago
It rarely happens, but I couldn't agree with you more. I don't only agree with your stance, but I completely agree with the argumentation.
TimesEyez 1 week ago
Funny little fact often not considered, many people get into drugs as a way to rebel against something, breaking the law is the way they like to rebel. Legalize it, a fewer people will likely get started in it. Just saying ...
KittenKoder 1 week ago
Good argument. But seriously, your videos could be cut down to two minutes if you script your arguments instead of running to your camera every time you have thought.
derralgerken 1 week ago
I may have already said this but in regards to the DEA and there list of restricted chemicals. I just came up with a theoretical procedure to produce amphetamines with chemicals that couldn't be on the list because they are used everyday in industry and households. I don't think they could ever ban every chemical that could be used, but I wouldn't put it past them.
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I in some was tend to agree with Lee. I sat down and came up with a theoritical synthesis of amphetamines with chemicals that are not on the DEA's list. Are they going to start regulation everything.
HeisenbergHyopthesis 1 week ago
don't forget Iran-Contra the Gov allows the drugs in.
creamycurdy 1 week ago
Wonderful video, it's refreshing to see others view the drug war as I do. I may detest drug abuse, but it isn't my right to tell others what they should do, provided they're acting peacefully. We need to realize that the well intentioned policies of our government have failed and degrade inner cities. PS, everyone go and download Doren's book at the link in the description, it's only a dollar and gives some well thought out points on our educational system from his perspective.
ImhoffInstruments 1 week ago
Degrade the culture?
1. What culture?
2. if the greatest threat to this country legalizing Drugs is that no one will be at the mall and everyone will be listening to less justin bieber and more Pink Floyd then we have nothing to lose.
6DooM6Trooper6 1 week ago
and what is up with this 200 character limit? SInce when?
philateliceun 1 week ago
Secondly, in Portugal drug use fell apparently through the mechanism that addicts, no longer viewed as criminal by the authorities, were much more inclined to seek help and rehabilitation treatment.
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In Holland, marijuana use by the domestic population fell after legalisation. Why? The dutch government are quoted as saying "we succeeded in making marijuana boring".
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Hey Lee, I'm curious, what do you think of the countries that have these kinds of drugs not only legal, but regulated? They have very specific parameters (similar to how we have "smoke-only" zones in special designated areas), and it appears to be working for them quite well. I believe the most renown of these countries is Amsterdam. I might be wrong, but what is your opinion?
Altalic77 1 week ago
@Altalic77 Yes you are wrong, Amsterdam is not a country. Maybe you should enroll a topography course.
pienhaar 1 week ago
@pienhaar do you mean geography perchance?
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@Altalic77 LOL Amsterdam a country? Way to live up to the American stereotype.
philateliceun 1 week ago
@philateliceun Gee whiz, I made a mistake. Need you be so condescending?
Altalic77 1 week ago
@Altalic77 I got a bit of a laugh from it actually. It just is a typical American stereotype that they don't know anything about topography outside their own town, and you kind of proved it :P
philateliceun 1 week ago
@Altalic77 I was born in Amsterdam so that mistakes seems really funny to me actually. I mean come on, you could imagine right?
philateliceun 1 week ago
@philateliceun Perhaps if someone exclaimed that Florida were a country I would chuckle; however, I wouldn't be condescending.
Altalic77 1 week ago
@Altalic77 ok
philateliceun 1 week ago
Sounds like you're coming around to Dr. Paul Lee
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Do you think legalizing drugs would make organized crime go away? I think it would increase violence in countries where the problem originally spawns. Why? If organized crime is unable to profit from the sell of illicit drugs, wouldn't they look into other forms of crime, like kidnapping and extortion in order to make up for the possible loss of profit that may come from the legalization of drugs?
amazaag00 2 weeks ago
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I guess you never heard of prohibition. See what happened when alcohol became illegal compared to when it was legalized again. You silly billy.
NoamTube 1 week ago
@NoamTube I get your point, but i'm asking what will the mafias (the ones who'll be unable to profit from legalization (foreign ones)) will turn too?
amazaag00 1 week ago
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Mafias of today aren't like they were back in the day. Today they run construction companies and waste management. I have a goomba that came to open an account for our trash bin at my job. Basically, they're more business now where they bribe under the tables, and do things more white collar type. So they do have other things to turn to.
NoamTube 1 week ago
@amazaag00 "kidnapping and extortion" Both those are way harder and have far more risks then just selling dope. Selling drugs is the best way to make money for any criminal organisation cause its easy, its cheap, it makes a lot of money and its virtually risk free. I mean kidnapping someone, thats like a month working hard, having a whole city breathing down your neck and you might make a million while those bosses make a million a day selling drugs.
philateliceun 1 week ago
Bottom line, people are gonna use drugs, bottom line, illegal or not. Legalize marijuana, that is some nice revenue for america right there.
shadydawg555 2 weeks ago
if Obama's kids or Biden's kids get thrown in jail for drugs, drug war over, instantly. our government don't care about you, your family or mexicans.
quicknuss 2 weeks ago
@quicknuss they wouldnt even go to jail at all . they would probably use their executive power to set them free. most people who suffer are minorities and the poor , but if you're upper or middle you wont even go to jail for smoking pot.
webnovice2012 1 week ago
Unfortunately, I don't see this being fixed. It's not just drugs but also prostitution and weapons. Mexico has also become a staging ground for Hezbollah and Hamas. It's the first time in my life that I have thought "We're going to have to get on our knees and beg and plead with God for safety and protection." - and I'm not even hardcore religious. No politician can fix this.
climbv15 2 weeks ago
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Hey we actually agree on something.
proatheism 2 weeks ago
1:45 "Unless you wanna just invade Mexico with an army..."
Already happened. Cities like Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez have had their entire police force replaced with the Mexican military forces. Escalation still won't stop the spread of cartel violence.
ccsmiley2 2 weeks ago
IMO making drugs illegal is a refusal to take responsibility.
The government (well I know they do in Britain) refer to illegal drugs as controlled substances, which is incredibly ironic.
Be wary of admitting to smoking spliffs to your doctor, for they tend to become paranoid and jump to conclusions... hmmm, more irony.
lethalsub 2 weeks ago
bullshit. Libertarians are NOT out there saying drugs are great.
Quit spreading the myth.
jeffiek 2 weeks ago
It's great to hear a conservative emphasize this side of the issue. End the drug war.
dragster178 2 weeks ago
The government has no constitutional power to ban the personal use of any drug. They can, however, ban any interstate sales of drugs through the commerce clause
31guitar 2 weeks ago
Shepple fed into the lie of prohibition which was racist in enactment and is an evil today that supports drug lords and police forces in a combined effort to harm it's own people. Even cops are waking up to the futility of this war and would rather chase real criminals that bring violence upon us.Glad to hear kindred spirits (by the way, I am sober 25 years and can get my "drug" on any corner store!)
Mountchoirboy 2 weeks ago
That is my thought, prohibition does not work. It only creates a lucrative market. All the way around.
RWRamo 2 weeks ago
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE TRUTH!!!
Littletreeispissed 2 weeks ago 2
Preach on, m'brother!
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RON PAUL 2012 would solve the drug war & all other wars for that matter.
MAZDAKPRODUCTION 2 weeks ago 20
@MAZDAKPRODUCTION No, Ron Paul would solve the wars that we start. But he would do to much when Iran begins bombing are country. But who fucking cares we'll be high.
magicjj7 2 weeks ago
@MAZDAKPRODUCTION one man can't fix the stupidness of an entire nation, and that applies to any nation
Lucassandro25 2 weeks ago
@MAZDAKPRODUCTION explain.
oduOX52 1 week ago
@MAZDAKPRODUCTION not only that he would also make the sun shine again and solve all diseases
Mrinebriation 1 week ago
I agree. And I think I got an answer to your question. The reason because so many drug abusers do not seek help is because they will be punished for their disease (addiction). We simply have to provide every substance abuser the help they personally need. I think that if we start treating addicts like humans they fill stop feeling ashamed of their problem.
Abbe235 3 weeks ago
I couldn't agree more with your video, a war on drugs is such an absurd idea. Legalizing all drugs is by far the best solution.
First, I doubt if cocaine became legal I'd start using it, and I'm sure others feel the same way. Legalizing drugs will not make users of us all, it would not change culture for the worse.
second, pretty much everything you said in the video regarding deaths, incarcerations, etc. being inexcusable results.
davidrobertthompson 3 weeks ago
The trouble goes beyond that, im from México, and here we know that the DEA is cleaning money for the drug cartels, and in an operative called "Fast and furious" E.U. give weapons to the cartels. Not an internet Myth, plain facts, admited by both sides. By the way, my country, asks for weapons to america, and they are not for free, and they have interests Here the trouble is are the bussines this war represents. But is lame seeing news about 15 years old boys, moms, underage kids murder for it
revistaflint 3 weeks ago 2
Solution?
Local laws regarding consumption and commerce of substance.
Why not have a ban dope in small towns and let NYC be the new sodom?
don't want to hang out with crackheads in upper manhattan? go live somewhere else
vjfperez 3 weeks ago
In America instead of actually dealing with social problems, like drug use, we turn to punishment, stigmatization, and incarceration. Highly indicative of an extremely unhealthy society.
tknick90 3 weeks ago 2
This is one of the first videos of yours that I have actually agreed with.
slyscafe 3 weeks ago 2
ron paul 2012, the only one who will end the war on drugs, end the fed, and end the corruption! he will restore our liberties
Jopsey 3 weeks ago
@Jopsey And who will allow me to lynch slaves again! :D
Optimusdinkus12 3 weeks ago
HowTheWorldWorks, if they legalized all drugs tomorrow, would you start smoking crack? No? Well I agree, I wouldn't do drugs regardless of legality, because it's stupid. If drugs were legalized I don't think a lot more people would do start doing drugs, I feel like the people who want to do drugs and enjoy them are already do drugs right now.
cardsforlife 3 weeks ago
Legalizing drugs have many benefits... first it can be taxed and regulated, meaning the product is not tainted, and laws can be made restricting people of a certain age who can use it, right now a 10 year old can buy cocaine from any dealer he wants, but can't buy beer at a store.
Also more people will be more willing to seek treatment from drug use without fear of persecution from the law. Jail is no place to get help for addiction. Portugal drug laws have proven these theories.
chibicat13 3 weeks ago
Treat drug abuse as a medical issue? Okay.
So who's gonna pay for the treatment? Taxpayers? Charitable organizations? Santa Claus?
Or by treat it "just like obesity or anorexia" did you mean give it lip service and let people who "slip up" fend for themselves?
I'd like to believe your intentions are altruistic, Lee, but given your previous critiques regarding programs like universal healthcare, you'll have to excuse me for being a bit dubious.
superpoopoop 3 weeks ago
@superpoopoop See Portugal drug laws. It works.
krayzewolf 3 weeks ago
@superpoopoop whos going to pay for throwing them in jail? Its alot cheaper to treat it as a medical issue
TheInfamousCanadian 3 weeks ago
@superpoopoop Throwing them in jail is really expensive, and immoral cause it's their body and they can do what they want with it. Even if it was more expensive to treat it as a medical issue than to throw them in jail (I doubt that it is though), I wouldn't care simply because throwing people in jail for doing something with their own body is AWFUL.
cardsforlife 3 weeks ago
@superpoopoop - Stop drug abuse through a war? Okay.
So who's going to pay for the war on drugs? Taxpayers? Charitable organizations? Santa Claus?
Seriously, throwing money at a problem doesn't solve anything. I'm glad to see Lee stick by his principles rather than pander to the conservatives that say we should be 'tough on crime.'
MixBeam 3 weeks ago
@MixBeam You guys missed my point.
I agree, the drug "war" is dumb and throwing people in jail for substance abuse doesn't solve anything.
What I was driving at is ending the "war" under the guise of humanitarian concern is disingenuous at best if you don't intend to support a treatment alternative.
superpoopoop 3 weeks ago
@Elvishairdude89 so do pharmaceuticals... im pretty sure meth was born out of the need to get high because coke wasnt around or because it wasnt powerful enough... i still believe if some on is an addict.. they should defiantly seek MEDICAL aid... wasted parents will not due.. if the parents are using the children should be put in foster care.. but foster care need help because that program is failing... but throwing the parents in prison wont make the probs go away...
88roro11 3 weeks ago
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PCP isn't a hard drug... You can have a psychotic episode on it tho
fartfizer 3 weeks ago
legalize it... legalize it all.. wed decrease prison populations... the drugs wouldn't be worth any thing because they would be legal... then the cartels would loose most of their funding.... plus when you get put in to the prison industrial complex.. its hard to get back in to "society" ..
88roro11 3 weeks ago
I understand how getting rid of the drug war might work for things like weed or most of the other drugs but I'm really concerned about how applicable this is to things like meth that people make in their homes. Because people can just make it and it's very dangerous for the people around those homes. I don't see how things like meth could be regulated without the SWAT teams breaking up labs but I would like to see more treatment and less punishment for all the people caught in the trap ofdrugs.
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@ DarthAardvark1977 And you posted nothing but simpleton thought bubbles. LedWhisky69 crushed them all. You're like a fly every smart person wants to crush, thing is now you won't go away. GO AWAY. You're simpleton thought bubbles have been crushed. We're not your internet buddy.
POPCANA 3 weeks ago
Heres the lie. You are saying pot does nothing for cancer patients wich goes against everystudy ever done by a credible university. This is where your argument dies. Asshat.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
I cant stand you right wing fuckholes telling people bs you read from faux news. We are responcible for mexican drug cartels. we dictate there sales not mexico you giant fuckface. Drugs are going to happen either we do our own or some other country will. grow the fuck up bitch.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@DarthAardvark1977 Yup, thought so. I effectively DESTROYED your feeble arguments and now comes the insults and strawmans. You're done.
LedWhisky69 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 Is this the part where you declare victory when all youve done is spew crap about how aids victims deserve to die because they are dirty pot smoking hippies? how is that a straw man when thats what you believe?
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 The only thing you have ever destroyed is your sisters virginity.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@DarthAardvark1977 Silly DarthArdvark1977 immaturity is for KIDS!
POPCANA 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 I think your a homeschooled fuckface. A boxed wine drinking fuckface that doesnt understand what vomiting your insides out actually means. TELLING CANCER Patients that they cannot smoke weed because it upsets you somehow because you either cant handle drugs or someone who smoked weed, beat your bitch ass somewhere down the line . Grow up, weed doesnt kill anyone. It has fuck all to do with mexican cartels and everything to do with the fact that your a tool.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@DarthAardvark1977 I haven't told cancer patients anything, you idiot. I have cancer patients in my family. Not ONE of them needed marijuana to get through it nor did they even think to request it. Your argument is just hogwash and nonsense. There are legal, prescription medications that can do ALL the things that marijuana can do ONLY BETTER. That's a FACT. Just admit you wanna smoke pot and not get busted because that's all you're about, you damn liar. Just admit it.
LedWhisky69 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 "Just admit you wanna smoke pot and not get busted" What is so wrong with that? You understand that putting people in prison costs money? You realize that putting people in prison for smoking a drug that is less harmful then alcohol is a HUGE waste of money and potential workers?
philateliceun 3 weeks ago 24
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Didn't you listen to what Lee said? Stop comparing drugs to things that already are legal. It isn't helpful to assert that "there is nothing wrong with pot", when there in fact is.
Yes, alcoholism is bad. I concede that, but that does not mean we should throw alcoholics in prison. See how this works? We need to treat drug addiction similarly. Throwing people in jail, as you rightly point out, does not help society; however, it doesn't help the individual either.
insidetrip101 2 weeks ago
@insidetrip101 Who cares if it doesn't helps the individual? No seriously, it might sound harsh but we don't need to go from one nanny state to the other. We do not HAVE to help people with addiction just like we don't HAVE to treat people with obesity and/or a poor diet. If they want help there should be the best available but people need to realize that people are responsible and smart enough to live their life's without the nanny state holding their hand every step of the way.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@philateliceun "Who cares if it doesn't helps the individual?"
Easy answer, people who do not want to see a significant decline in culture. You might not care about that, but lots of people do and is exactly the reason why they oppose drugs, and therefore support the drug war.
If you do not make this concession, then it is significantly less likely that you will ever convince someone that they were wrong about supporting the drug war.
insidetrip101 2 weeks ago
@insidetrip101 "If you do not make this concession, then it is significantly less likely that you will ever convince someone that they were wrong about supporting the drug war."
Then that is their own fault cause if they are so concerned with the decline of culture/society then they should have been opposed to the drug war to begin with, nothing has destroyed American society/culture more then the drug wars. The government has NO job in baby sitting, people should and can be responsible.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@insidetrip101 Why do we think drugs are these very dangerous and bad things? We don't see food that way, we don't see cars that way, we don't see alcohol that way while they all cause a lot more suffering and pain then drugs. Drugs become dangerous when they are illegal, when they are in the hands of gangs and sociopaths, thats why there is such a large gang problem, gangs make literally 100s of millions of dollars from selling illegal drugs. Drug war = cause of nearly every American problem.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@philateliceun "Why do we think drugs are these very dangerous and bad things?"
Because they are addictive substances and ruin lives of addicts and those around them. Many people do see alcohol as a dangerous substance, this is why we have drinking ages and regulations on alcohol. Cars aren't necessarily addictive, but you can't just travel whatever speed you want on the highway.
This idea that all regulation is bad is nonsense. You have to be reasonable.
insidetrip101 2 weeks ago
@insidetrip101 Yeah but so is food, food is actually more addictive then any drug. People's life's are ruined by fat and sugar yet we don't lock up food companies and we don't force people into treatment, we solved that problem by simple education. And ofcourse drugs need to be regulated, I don't see how anybody would disagree with that, the whole problem of the drug war is that it makes drugs uncontrollable.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@insidetrip101 But we shouldn't over do it. The drug war should show people that centralized planning and regulation does only work to an extent. We should see drugs like we see any other source of enjoyment. There is this whole stigma about drugs will make you into a gutter laying junkie who is highly addicted but that is so overblown. Only a small percentage gets addicted, just like a small percentage gets addicted to food or other things.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@philateliceun "We should see drugs like we see any other source of enjoyment."
Well, all I have to do is point to Charlie Sheen to show an example of what you don't want to be. I've never seen anyone hooked on only sex, only alcohol, or only food be that over the top. Therefore, I think you are wrong, but for the sake of argument, I'll agree.
If you are right, then you still can't say that. It simply will turn off people that may otherwise agree with you. It's called rhetoric.
insidetrip101 2 weeks ago
@philateliceun ". . . waste of money and potential workers"? How about it's nobody's business what drugs you take? Utilitarian arguments sound like you're talking about the benefits of giving fresher grass to your cattle and not at all like you're talking about adult human beings capable of making their own decisions.
Piotrek127 2 weeks ago
@Piotrek127 Well I have to ponder a bit to the right wing folks, best way to do that is with money.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@philateliceun It comes off like you're pandering to slave owners. If you want to stoop down to the level of "right wing" folks, you can point out that Jesus would have probably smoked pot. The "potential workers" bit especially gave me a chill.
It's scary when people start to think of themselves and their neighbors as tax fodder for the state.
Piotrek127 2 weeks ago
@Piotrek127 Now you are overreacting a bit. The society we live in prospers through economic stability, it just is, we don't live in the jungle or on the grasslands, we live in cities and villages where you get your basic necessities through money. If the economy becomes unstable people get less prosperous and the standard of living goes down. If you have incarcerated 3% of all adults you are hurting the economy and essentially degrading the standard of living.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@philateliceun I agree: people in the civilized world don't live in the jungle. Economic prosperity comes from economic freedom, not just on this particular occasion.
Don't go talking like a right-winger now with all that "economic stability" talk :)
Piotrek127 2 weeks ago
@Piotrek127 How is it thinking that they are tax fodders? If there are more people to clean up the streets everybody gets better from it, if there are more people working as doctors everybody gets better from it, if there are more people working as teachers, well you get the point. Potential workers may sound like a slave owner but its not meant that way. Its just meant as people who work contrary to people who don't/can't work because they have been locked up for some drugs.
philateliceun 2 weeks ago
@philateliceun Those people work in the prisons. For like 5 bucks a day, and the prisons make millions. See the problem? Private prisons.... what a joke.
d0md0mt0mt0m 1 week ago
@d0md0mt0mt0m Indeed, it wouldn't be too far fatched to call it the holocaust against criminals. Once you are a criminal you are nothing more then a number, a slave to the state. The only difference is that criminals aren't killed in massive numbers, yet.
philateliceun 1 week ago
@philateliceun Smoking Weed makes you a better person. You see everything with a completely clear mind. It allows you to see patterns and put things together that people wouldn't in a sober state because we are trained to utilize the left side of our brain through our entire lives and THC helps us to utilize the right half and see through the Government and media programming. People used drugs freely before the 30's and we had the biggest boom ever from 1870 - 1930.
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Leave it to a giant right winger to finally say enough is enough about this bs drug war. Lee I salute you sir.Its called personal freedom. Pot is the best drug on the planet to stop people from throwing up food thats just a fact. I dont give 2 shits of a fuck weather it gives someone a buzz either as long as it helps them live when they are doing chemo. Pot helps you eat and no other drug does it better thats just a fact.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
Leave it to a giant right winger to finally say enough is enough about this bs drug war. Lee I salute you sir.Its called personal freedom. Pot is the best drug on the planet to stop people from throwing up food thats just a fact. I dont give 2 shits of a fuck weather it gives someone a buzz either as long as it helps them live when they are doing chemo. Pot helps you eat and no other drug does it better thats just a fact.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
Of course, the drug war should end. But what should the alternative be to throwing people in jail? I have a solution. Treat drugs the SAME way we have treated cigarettes and tobacco for the last 30 years or so. Where the War on Drugs has obviously been a huge failure, the "war against tobacco" has been a huge success. Let's examine the difference in how these two "wars" were fought. What was the weapon used against tobacco? EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC! The same weapon should be used for other drugs
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It is a simply fallacy to believe that legalizing marijuana will mark the end of the drug cartels. Think that the day it's legalized here in the States that they will just get up and go home? Think again. You know what this will cause? Escalation. Instead of marijuana, they will focus on harder and harder drugs including currently legal, prescription only medication which are ALREADY a big problem. Legalize drugs to what end? That's the question you need to ask yourself. Use foresight.
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raptothecore 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 I love the slippery slope argument. "As soon as we let them start dancing with eachother the next thing you know they will be having pre marital sex with bovines. You are soo typical.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
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@LedWhisky69 gangs use the money from softer drugs like marijuana to fund the harder ones. Drugs like meth, heroin and crack take a lot more money to fund. for a better look, I refer you to an article written in the 90's by conservative heavy weight William F. Buckley jr. entitled "the war on drugs is lost". Google it, it is the first link.
raptothecore 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 Pot is the least of your problems but some giant asshat such as you could never understand that. Pot is like cotton candy. Harmless and purile. The worst drug on the planet is vodka and its legal. I wish you knew anything about the word "fallacy" wich is your entire position against reefer. I dont even smoke the shit because I dont like the buzz but I would never try to pass a law against it. More twinkie consumption.mwa ha ha
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 Know this. Every time a cancer patient dies because of some jerkoff like you or some aids patient dies because of some jerkoff like you. It only goes to show how apathetic you right wing pricks are. I hope you get cancer and puke every day. Vomit your insides out. Watch your best friend die of ewings sarcoma you humongous pile of dung.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@DarthAardvark1977 Why don't YOU know THIS, asshole. Nothing I said even comes CLOSE to suggesting we ban cancer and AIDS medications. WTF is wrong with you to talk to people like that? I hope you GROW A DAMN BRAIN, how about that? Take care, pyscho.
LedWhisky69 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 lol have fun with that mr apathy. Mr slippery slope.you amuse me.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@DarthAardvark1977 Slippery slope? LOL! It's called common goddamn sense, something you obviously don't have. The Mexican drug cartels currently make about 60% of their profits from marijuana. Guess where the other 40% comes from? It includes the HARDER drugs, dopey. Think meth, heroine, coke. If you cut off one source of their funding, they're ramp up the others. Simple economics. Think they'll just disappear off the face of the Eart, dumbass? LOL! You're DUMB!
LedWhisky69 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 "oh when you buy pot it supports terrorism" jaggoff. "IT LEADS TO HARDER DRUGS"..... YOU GIGANTIC JERKOFF. Remember that when you are suffering in your bed telling people that pot leads to mexican cartels offering you heroine fuckhead. Grow a friggen brain.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
@DarthAardvark1977 I think you need to go back on your legal, prescription medication to calm your ass down, that's what I think.
LedWhisky69 3 weeks ago
@LedWhisky69 I think your a homeschooled fuckface. A boxed wine drinking fuckface that doesnt understand what vomiting your insides out actually means. TELLING CANCER Patients that they cannot smoke weed because it upsets you somehow because you either cant handle drugs or someone who smoked weed, beat your bitch ass somewhere down the line . Grow up, weed doesnt kill anyone. It has fuck all to do with mexican cartels and everything to do with the fact that your a tool.
DarthAardvark1977 3 weeks ago
Well said. Also, if hemp were decriminalized, we would have a whole new industry of production open up in the U.S. with very promising potentials.
orange11emilie 3 weeks ago
is that a wolverines helmet behind you? what's the other on next to it on the shelf?
MrVondoehren 3 weeks ago
@Here2ownU
1. All mexico did was decriminalize small amounts. That might have made "consumers" safe, but dealers were still below the law. So, in essence, dealing with narcotics in Mexico is still illegal.
2. Gun control only protects criminal elements; a rise in gun control will lead to a rise in firearm violence.
3. Competition to old gangs happen regardless of legalization status; its a filthy lucrative venture, primarily because of its legal status.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
@mikereka show where you get that info pls
TheRetiredtrucker 3 weeks ago
@TheRetiredtrucker "the number of heroin addicts has dropped by more than 30% since 1983" this is the result of what I said.... The info is from the Netherlands. Actually this subject cannot be debated in comments, there is too much info. I would suggest you just do the research and enlighten yourself. The drug war is a front to imprison people and take more money from tax payers for a perpetually failing system. In short, the drug war is It's bulllshit.
mikereka 3 weeks ago
@TheRetiredtrucker With that, there is no way for me to show you where I get the info for my other comment that people will use drugs either way. The only way for you to conclude that is to either use logic and data. Or become a drug addict. The drug war is an absolute fail and does not prevent users from using. If a drug addict has to walk two states to get drugs, he/she will. The drug war is absolutely not a solution and does not target the problem.
mikereka 3 weeks ago
@TheRetiredtrucker consider the unseen; a lot of the theft that goes on today is between rival dealers. There is reduced cost in legalized drugs; the worst addicts may still resort to stealing, but theft will be less because it is easier to obtain the drug cheaply. Also, considering taxation is theft to a monopoly that overspends, it is hard to say theft would be increased by a decrease in government involvement against property rights.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
@4lifejackhammer It's not just the cost of the drugs, it's the use of drugs making the person unable to function in society. Not being able to hold a job, raise their kids ect. Crack cost what $10 - $50, not a huge amount, but if you have no income, you will steal to get it.
TheRetiredtrucker 3 weeks ago
@TheRetiredtrucker the question then is; is the theft from junkies in the legalized age going to be worse than the theft from government's attempts to ban the hard drugs. I'm convinced that society would be better off, even if hard drug users increased. Mind you it would not increase dramatically; the vast majority of people would stay away from hard drugs even if it were legalized.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
@4lifejackhammer No I dont think milions are going to line up to try injecting heroin. Never really saw the point of prosecuting for the soft drugs (pot hash ect), but the hard.... not just the theft, its how the junkies affect those around them. Not only the stealing, but the abuse and neglect they do to their children/families.
TheRetiredtrucker 3 weeks ago
@TheRetiredtrucker alcoholics are also overly abusive to their families and ruin themselves. We can't, as a society, blame ourself for the actions of idiots. To hold ourself to this notion is to be the parent to everybody...to the point where anything that could cause us harm with enough ideological backing is restricted or banned. Resources that may go to providing shelter for the abused is diverted to trying to limit supply; it has not worked, and therefore ruins more families than it helps.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
@4lifejackhammer I'm not saying that alcohol is harmless either,,,, but 25% of people who have their first beer or vodka do not become addicted.... unlike heroin. Most alcoholics can actually function in society, most junkies cannot
TheRetiredtrucker 3 weeks ago
@TheRetiredtrucker so, does that mean if less than 25% of people become addicted to a substance at first try, its okay? Or the ability to function after rehab? Let's not forget that it's more difficult for illegal drug users to get rehab without repercussion, and that the people who are willing to try heroin are more chemically inclined to begin with. Resources for treatment and resources for the abused can exist, if not for the drain of the drug war.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
@4lifejackhammer Didn't say that at all,,, said 25% of people who try heroin the first time become addicted, that is not true with alcohol. so how many times do we send them to rehab? What percentage of people sent to rehab are successful and stay off drugs permanently?
TheRetiredtrucker 3 weeks ago
@TheRetiredtrucker does that even matter? The question is not how successful we imagine the case to be; the question is whether keeping a drug war will stop the problem better than legalization. In one case, the cure is to go to prison, where dealers and gangs exist, while the other makes for no punishment and going to a place that at least claims to be for the patient, not the "rest of society," even though themselves getting cured is good for society.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
@4lifejackhammer Kinda does, if we need to keep forking out money to "Cure" people who choose to first take a chemical that they know will adversely effect them and their families. People who have a 50/50 chance of going right back onto the drug after a min $10,000 treatment. How many times do we put them into rehab? How many property crimes will they commit between stints in rehab? It's not cancer or parkinson's, they intentionally brought this on themselves
TheRetiredtrucker 3 weeks ago
@XxxxExclusivexxxX well, i guess its still up to ideological belief, because my uncle was a narc detective for 9 years before being ousted from that position because of inner-office politics and my dad was one of the people who risked their life raiding drug houses. They both agree that hard drugs do nothing but ruin lives...and they both agree that what they do does not stop the problem.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
@chuck3668831 well said. That is the main fear of legalization; it will hurt society. Tobacco, though, is legal; its recognized as being bad for you, and hard drugs are recognized as worse for you. The only places in America where tobacco is fought over is in the case of bootlegged tobacco in places that have high sin taxes on them.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
If heroin was legalized today, would you do it? Thumbs up if you would, its anonymous. I'd honestly be surprised to see 1. The people willing to do hard drugs will do hard drugs regardless. The people willing to do pot for non-medicinal purposes will do it. The question is both moral and economic; is it right for the government to tell people what they can do to their bodies, and is the cost to society worse for trying to ban it.
4lifejackhammer 3 weeks ago
So when they get killed over drugs we feel sorry for them but when they come to the USA for safety and jobs...EVIL!
HobbsO 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
I'm so glad that someone took the time to raise awareness about this destructive policy that we have. The solution to the problem does not lie in government protecting people from themselves. We need to let people make their own decisions and eliminate the aggressive policy that is the war on drugs.
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islamconstitution 3 weeks ago
Mark, It's called capitalism - a system you love so much. Drugs are a massive industry, much like the arms trade, sex trade, technology, which all exploit and kill for profit; while governments and alike do very little to intervene on a macro scale. Additionally, let's not focus solely on Mexico - it's global. Get an equal perspective of how societies are broken, exploited by capitalist, leaving low paid jobs, no jobs, or the alternative to sell drugs etc, thus just another exploitative trap.
doesitmatter758 3 weeks ago
Sadly, it has to do with more things than just drug trafficking. It has to do with power, and the corruption of the government, drugs are just the bad guys' income to do all the awful things they do.
ktanrodriguez 3 weeks ago
@ktanrodriguez (in mexico)
ktanrodriguez 3 weeks ago
We in Portugal don´t have that much freedom of drug use as people say.
The Drug War still continues here, as any part of the world.
crocve 3 weeks ago
Do you think he has to auto-focus the camera on his face since his library is so small? Or do you really think he's read all 20 of those books behind him.
Oh well at least he knows which way the Earth spins.
hersheystaste4life 3 weeks ago
@hersheystaste4life the lens is on a narrow focal length, so it brings the background closer. derp.
phillipseric 3 weeks ago
@PolitcalIslam Disposion has nothing to do with environment. Drug addiction is a behavior. There are plenty of rehab clinics that don't treat as a desease & are successfull
GlennRoxWyo 3 weeks ago
@GlennRoxWyo 1. What is disposion? If you mean you disposition, you are wrong. Disposition has everything to do with environment.
2. Illusory correlation caused by anecdotal evidence?
3. It's time to learn to spell.
PolitcalIslam 3 weeks ago
@PolitcalIslam if disposision has to do with environment then it's not a desease. You don't get cancer from up brining. Anecdotes are obsevation (in this case of intirely irrelavent & sparce examples) Thanks for admitting that. & thanks for the spelling comment. Proves you can't debate with facts.
GlennRoxWyo 3 weeks ago
@GlennRoxWyo Disposition≠predestination. Disposition is the tendency to be influenced by your environment in a certain way. Your environment only does so much. There is an interaction between the two. Most people are equally likely to try drugs, but the likelihood of becoming an addicts varies significantly. You're trolling, right? You responded to my comment you thought was ad hominem with another ad hominem comment. It has nothing to do with the validity of your arguments, but damn, child!
PolitcalIslam 3 weeks ago
@PolitcalIslam I'm not trolling & pointing the finger at me & accusing me of what you are doing won't make me go away. & disposition & predestination are not same thinas you try to insist here. Predestination means detetermined in the pre-existance. Have you even read a book? Go practic your taqqiya elsewhere muzzy
GlennRoxWyo 3 weeks ago
@PolitcalIslam You're obviously the one who had my other comment removed. More muzztard crap. Just censor what you don't to hear.
GlennRoxWyo 3 weeks ago
Legalize everything an hope that people, or at least the people around you, can make the right decisions. Great Video Sir.
pcdabbs 3 weeks ago
@pcdabbs The truth is even now all we can do is hope they make the right decisions.
seeqr9 3 weeks ago
you would probably need this to really win the "drug war":
1) an actual leader who wants to win it.
2) invade ALL OF south America
3) FIND AND BURN all drug farms "usually in jungles or shit".
4) criminalize living in unpopulated areas, establish search and shoot rangers "for good, not temporary".
5) Kill ALL drug lord/dealers.
6) send all drug addicts to rehab.
7) make protected monopolies for pharmaceutical companies to grow their own shit
and not act like they need to go to farms.
8) WIN FAST
islamconstitution 3 weeks ago
@islamconstitution Basically kill the whole earth.
seeqr9 3 weeks ago
@seeqr9
no, dude.. not kill the earth..
:-)
I just gave my pragmatic opinion on how to win the war on drugs. if it will involve actual government taking on of the druglords and cartels..
and you know what.. smart ass.. "sorry i had to say it" even if I want that to happen..
1) ITS NOT THE WHOLE EARTH; unless you think the whole earth is a drug cartel.
islamconstitution 3 weeks ago
@seeqr9
2) Its not a big deal if you have a real leader who wants to get somthing done fast and acuratly not just profiteer on the way.. its almost like how if we had a leader in the war on terror we would have just droned binladen 10 years ago instead of invading 2 countries and pissing on the soverenty of 2 others, getting involved in the process of torture, rape, murder of millions of second class peoples i guess since 3000 of us meant around 2 million in Iraq alone.
get it?
islamconstitution 3 weeks ago
@islamconstitution No DUDE or Dumbass.. had 2 say it :) As long as there is any usable land and people alive there will be drugs and "druglords". Droned him huh? cuz it's so precise we wouldnt hit non combatants making many more during the process. Marque and Reprisal. Huge fkn pricetag on his head woulda done it. All without losing our liberty to a Fourth Reich. The Furer was a strong efficient leader. Good luck with that comrade :)
seeqr9 3 weeks ago
@seeqr9
hhh.. baby d..
I mentioned getting coroprations into the deal to monopolise the farming.. that kinda really fucks it up for drug dealers everywhere.. if you had a brain ofcourse to think about it.. and druglords can only farm the shit in far un-enhabited areas like the jungles in southamerica.. they cant do it otherwise.. so if you set a strick shoot at site policy in those areas and dont even give legal precedence to be there.. it also deals simply with the issue.. grow up idiot!
islamconstitution 3 weeks ago
@islamconstitution Piss off slave. You're dismissed.
seeqr9 3 weeks ago
@seeqr9
hahahaha.. Im a Slave and Im proud.. your a Barbarian who doesnt know how to deal politically or be civilized and have a civil discussion.
:-)
islamconstitution 3 weeks ago
@islamconstitution Sure I do. However I am a Sovereign. A freeman. I will not be content with a Mother/Father Govt. Period. Civil discussion is preferable. Look back at who started the childish name calling buddy. Far from civil. Nice try though ;) Have a good one.
seeqr9 3 weeks ago