If we ever wanna get these things legalized we have to figure out how to dismantle the monster thats grown up around the war on drugs bubble. Banks have to find away to make money in legalization same with the prison industry. Dea has to be reallocated...etc. If we wanna do this we have to think of it as a business and remember the HUGE amount of money, legal and illegal, that entities make of them.
@cblazer thios guy is right, what the video fails to point out is that, the fed want this war not because its good for the people but it keeps the people involved making money, if you told them that 50% of the prison population were no longer criminals and that they can expect 50% less funding each year, what do you think they're going to say to that, the rich stay rich
no, we should jail the people who eat too much too! Spend lots of money on jailing them because that has a small chance of helping them. And people who choose to smoke, anyone making bad decisions!
i hope all of you guys know that the war on Drugs is a subliminal tool to keep arrest non-whites in america and put them in the criminal record caste system. Nixon even announced the war on drugs when drug use in the USA was on a historical decline.
So far when it comes to the War on Drugs and that it would be better at least to legalize and regulate the use of Marijuana this is considered an untouchable subject except to adhere to the status quo or even call for stiffer sentencing. Obma has weighed this out in terms of his political career and has nothing to do with Justice or doing the right thing. Real science doesn't even rate a place in this argument . People don't approve of drugs mainly based upon misleading stereotypes .GORD.
American politicians are to dumb or are bought by the drug or alcohol cartels, prison cartels and the police force unions, since there would be less policing needed, they should legalize weed and regulate it just like alcohol, and tax it.
I hate to agree with this but I do. I think the biggest thing keeping America from decriminalizing drugs is parents. Parents are afraid if they decriminalize drugs, their children will be exposed, potentially at a young age, and then become a drug addict. Can you blame them? It would definitely be a scary situation if I was a parent.
But how will we regulate crack or any other hard drugs. I'm all for legalizing marijuana but other drugs, it's just seems stupid. I'd like to know how it would be possible to do this.
@CoDisafishy laws would be put in place to enact severe punishment for drug use that leads to harming other people. It would also become a state issue as the war on drugs is unconstitutional and is using the system our founding fathers setup very poorly. The federal government should never be dictating such laws
you forgot about alcohol-hard drug. this is the war between alcohol users and minority who use other drugs-it's similar to religious war or sexual minority persecution
I got a question..If drugs are decriminilized. who will be in charge of selling the drugs?? Do you think drug dealers will allow that to happend?? They will just say. "damn, we cant sell drugs anymore, lets be good people"...Correct me if Im wrong. or whats the point of decriminalization?
@poposisa Businesses will form and compete with eachother and you'll buy the drug you want in a store, just like alcohol. Drug dealers will either decide to go into one of these businesses or they'll do something else.
The big gangs and cartels will collapse because they'll lose their money supply. Thousands of lives would be saved, millions of people who never harmed anyone would get out of prison and contribute to society again.
@Alectr0n BUT, cartels do not only own the drug business. they kidnap, extortion, prostitution, and so more. this wont make them collapse at all. It will only make them angry. What will they do instead?? "New" crimes, new ways to obtain again that income they were getting with drugs...theres no end. Of course drug dealers wont become legit. pay taxes??? no way. Im pro decriminalization but ive been thinking about it a lot
@poposisa They get like 80-90% of their money from drug trafficking. I don't know what they would do after decriminalization but they would be one tenth as dangerous as they are now.
Petty criminals (dealers) will probably remain petty criminals and end up in prison for burglaries or something. The important thing is that people using drugs recreationally won't get thrown in prison.
@poposisa honest business would take over and the drug cartels would not exist. For one thing the drugs would still be illegal in other countries undermining the cartel immediately. What's left of the cartel would be competing with honest business and if they want to compete price wise they would have to a public company. Therefore they could not go out and 'wipe out' the competition without being arrested. The free market is non-violent in the way it works, unlike government policies
@tommy35ss I dont think they care if they get arrested or not...theyve been trafficking drugs since 1940's...Why should they care now?? Im sure, I dont suppose, I dont think, I KNOW they will "wipe out" all these "honest" business...Those honest business will be competition. and they will erase competition. They wont have time to compete in the way you guys say...Im sorry. Im pro decriminalization/legalization but that, what you are saying. will never work.
@poposisa if you understood the free market that would not happen. For one thing the cartel's operations are based outside the country so they would not be able to quickly react to tobacco companies growing and selling it quickly. After prohibition the gangs lost power, why? Because their main source of revenue was cut off. Why would somebody buy a worse made, higher priced, possibly dangerous formulation fromwhen some dealer when they can buy a cheap, high quality, controlled formulation from--
@poposisa --their local corner store? They wouldn't, they would buy the legal way that does not support organized crime for moral, financial, and believe it or not relative safety compared to current illegal drugs
@poposisa Read up on the decriminalization of previously "banned" substances in Portugal and how far, as a country, they have come today. Portugal's war on drugs prior to decriminalization did not mirror that of the United States, but certainly we can expect similar results. Philosophically it makes sense to decriminalize drugs, but politically...well nothing makes sense.
"If our government really wanted to do something damaging to terrorist groups around the world, they would take the one step that would do that: REPEAL DRUG PROHIBITION" ~ Judge Jim Gray
Google - The Prison Industry in the United States Costs Taxpayers Billions- and you will find out how much drugs cost in 2011.The CIA is a major drug dealer.
This is probably the greatest indictment of the drug war packed into barely over 200 seconds I have ever seen...
You guys should seriously do an updated version of this every 2-3 years!
And I would recommend anyone impressed with this video to print out the infographic FEE has to go along with this video and post it where you know others will see it.
There is a big difference between legalizing and decriminalization. apparently alor of people think its the same. Decriminalizing a drug means if you get caught with it you either pay a fine or go to rehab which would be exponentially less expensive to tax payers then sending people to jail. Not only that but this country was founded on rights and personal freedoms. If the Government really have a fuck about addiction and health of people them why is tobacco legal? Follow the money
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." -Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
@sheametsfan6 Alcohol is more damaging because its a lot more physically harmful to you(it damages your body)and for most ppl,they can get Cannabis "more readily"then alcohol.
This video doesn't even mention how much profit companies could make selling Marijuana alone...It would be well over 500 billion dollars worldwide in a years time.
@ninetailschris What does cocaine being legal have to do with murder? Do you think keeping drugs illegal would prevent murder by people on cocaine? Do you think legalizing would increase the likelihood of being murdered by somebody on cocaine?
I find it ridiculous. I've known cocaine users, they don't care if drugs are legal, the drug alone does also not cause somebody to murder.
Criminalize the murder, not the usage of a drug. Voodoo pharmacology is a falsehood.
What does cocaine has to do with murder?Do you know what people will do to get?Do you think that will change because it's legal?The only difference there will be is that instead killing people or robbing people for money or just shooting the dealer to get it is that no one will stop them from getting addicted in the first place.That drug can turn people from good to a horrible person who is mad for it.Addicts were on it they always say that they had to do some underhand things to get
@ninetailschris "no one will stop them from getting addicted in the first place", nobody does RIGHT NOW.
You're assuming that a law is doing _ANYTHING_, and you're wrong. Come to the inner city I live in and tell me the drug laws work. Gang members sell drugs and kill each other, in mexico cartels murder each other and corrupt their government -- AND OURS, and in every case decriminalization has been tried (yeah, people did this), your scare stories have been proven FALSE. Do research.
Are you honestly saying there would not be more addicts to cocaine if it was legally available we would have more addicts?They have already started just by having laws against to stop people from wanting to try it.Of course not everyone will listen to law but it's stops most from doing it.And to say they do nothing is clearly ignorance on your part because they have drug bust all the time. Can they put more effort on improving how to reduce cocaine? Yes. Part1 read part2
@ninetailschris Yes, I'm absolutely saying that. The countries who tried it haven't experienced a major increase in addicts, and it's not just a small amount of people who break the law. They are mentally predisposed to breaking the law, they're addicts from a young age. It's a psychological condition, it isn't just somebody tries cocaine, gets instantly hooked, and no, the more effort they put into policing drugs the more profitable for cartels. Doesn't stop it.
"Yes, I'm absolutely saying that. The countries who tried it haven't experienced a major increase in addicts"
So you admit that there is a increase?So how is that helping?You also never answered who do you think will be paying for this people medical bills?It's you and me.If you are saying that we arrest the drug addicts then send them to medical place I can understand that and there nothing wrong with that.But if your saying oh well these people are just sick let them do then ..PT2
@ninetailschris No, in fact, there was a marked DECREASE in drug use, don't believe me google it yourself. Portugal is an example. However you're ignoring two things in your assessment, one, this is my body and I can do whatever I want with it, even use drugs. Second, stopping me from doing what I want to do is causing cartels to MURDER perfectly INNOCENT people. I must say I feel far sorrier for the child gunned down in a drive-by or in a mass-murder in mexico than the drug addict.
@ninetailschris If they want help, fine! It's cheaper than prison by FAR. This systematic failure known as the "war on drugs" has killed more people than it's helped, guaranteed.
Then your sick person for saying that yourself and only see things in numbers and not lives."it isn't just somebody tries cocaine, gets instantly hooked"True in some cases but that's if you don't try many times.If you look up what cocaine does it easily can get you addicted plus what your saying is like I'm going to only have one potato chip that's not going to happen and usually never happens.I believe we need to find a way to stop this drugs in a successful way and not give up.
@ninetailschris As some one else said, you can end the war in two ways. Mao's way and Milton's way. Mao killed drug users and drug dealers as social parasites, just flat out murdered people who did drugs. Milton's way is to call it off. This way in between is killing people. I don't see "myself", I don't use drugs, I was speaking as an example. I see things in "people" just fine, I live in the city, i hear about children being shot as young as 4 every week. Super program.
If you make your mind narrow enough to believe that there are only two ways then you will believe.There are many ways this could be done to stop the problem we just haven't tried them.For you to take someone opinion over thousands of ideas means that your not truly look for a answer you just going for whatever sounds good.I'm personally looking projects that give ideas on how to stop the problem and limiting my self to just two extreme ideas.We just got to keep finding solutions.
"Gang members sell drugs and kill each other, in mexico cartels murder each other and corrupt their government" So you think if we made it legal to sell people would not just lower the the price from the stores? Do you think everything would just stop?"your scare stories have been proven FALSE" Are you so bias for your statements? watch?v=OITbV8rbVCY I can link you more if you like? I want to ask you something if cocaine becomes legal who do you think will be paying for there rehab?
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How come no one mentions how much prohibitions failed? It bred crime and drug dealers made a lot of money. I mean that was one of the main reasons why they brought back alcohol. If it didn't work for Alcohol, they why would anyone think it'd work for marijuana, heroin, cocaine, ect? The thing is, it doesn't work! It's ridiculously obvious the war on drugs is a failure. The only candidate I know that wants to get rid of it is Ron Paul. Government, stop telling people what to put in their bodies!
Any sane person can look at the evidence and see prohibition that doesn't work. Yet the government has supported it for decades and is against ending it even when thousands are dying and millions are having their dignity trampled.
This can mean only one of two things; that the government is insane or that they are benefiting from the drug war and they care more about those benefits than they do about the people.
@Alectr0n They're insane and benefiting it. The benefits is control for one thing. Just to tell people what to do. I know that's their goal is just to control pretty much everything and everything people do.
@Yabuturtle I think the reason why marijuana isn't legal is because of it's many health applications and it's threat to the current pharmaceuticals industry. Just to make your comment more specific, Ron Paul wants to drop Federal enforcement towards drugs and put the decision-making back to the state. If Georgia decides to not legalize marijuana, they won't. If Maine decides to legalize all drugs, they will. If the people voted for it, then that's there business.
The War on Drugs has been an undeniable failure. All we have seen since it started is increase use and availability of drug use. Drug use in itself is a victimless crime. And I dont know what says failure quite like the fact that even though we go so hard against drugs, they still find their way into prisons, which are among the most highly secured areas in the country
This is very well put. We need more of this in the media! I suscribed to YouTube just to thank awesome people who make inspiring videos like this. Thank you and please keep doin what your doin.
obama ensures that he is looking to increase the funding of the drug war. I hope to see this end in my lifetime all of these corrupt law inforcers aint making it better America is going down, going down the shit hole for sure and the government and state officers are causing this problem!
@CloudsAreintheSky Then you probably have a crappy life. Most Socialists I know are usually disgrunted unemployed(or underemployed) twenty year olds living in their basement after being propagandized by their college teachers
@Boogonomotry We are still in Korea, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Germany, Italy... Hmmm... When was WW2? OVER 40 YEARS AGO! And the "War on Drugs" is not the same type of war! Seriously how old are you?! ?
OK... this is so MISLEADING... it makes it sound like if drug would legalize it would solve 50% of the number of people in jail wouldn't be in jail? If drugs were legal i guarantee you these people would be arrested for something else! So ALL theses stats sound good... but they are skewed as in... you don't know what would happen if you made it legal... it's like when they OUTLAWED guns in LONDON... you would think crime would go down... WRONG, it went UP!!!
On what basis do you guarantee that? What proof do you have?
It is a not-well-enough known fact that there is a correlation between criminalization of firearms and rise of violent crime. Logical, because criminals are less afraid to be defended against anymore. But how does that refute this video?
@StephenRCranford Why would people in jail for drug possession go to jail anyway? The illegality of drugs creates a dangerous black market that people get sucked into. If drugs were legal, there would be no black market, prices for drugs would be lower, safety would be drastically improved. Users wouldn't become broke and have to steal to finance their drug habit if drugs were legalized. Outlawing drugs (like guns) = more crime. Also: Argentina and Portugal legalized drugs, and usage went down.
@myusernameisluc For one thing, there's no such thing as a free market. Its a political issue and cannot be objectively defined. Take immigration, for example. A truly free market would require completely open borders and unrestricted immigration, in order to let the "market decide" the kind of labour it wants. does it want an American who expects a reasonable standard of living or an Indian who can live off of rice and water? Not only do free markets not exist, they're undesirable.
Heroin abuse spiked AFTER it was criminalized. Violent criminal gangs thrive trough the selling of products and services that are so high in price because they are illegal. Violent deaths would drop significantly.
But in the end everyone dies, no choice in that, so why don't we let them choose how to live?
This is a great video, but it leaves out the billions in "opportunity costs" lost to the economy by the cost to consumers of the drugs themselves, which are typically 90% profit. Whatever the total $ spent on drugs, 90% or more would necessarily be spent on other goods and services, were it to be legalized. How that money would be spent, what innovations it would generate, is literally unimaginable. Add that to the $ govt spends on this infantile exercise in futility tallied in this video.
This will not be an effective video, sadly. If facts alone could persuade most of our fellow primates, there would not be so many Democrats. And on the other hand, not so many Republicans, either.
Drugs should be decriminalized and the war on drugs should be called off immediately but it won't happen because there are too many jobs at stake. Think of agencies like the DEA, FBI special task forces, local police, probation officers, ect...an entire system of jobs have been created over this failed war on drugs. With no drug laws there isn't drug crime hence no drug crime enforcement. Also, make no mistake...the cartels want drugs to remain illegal. It's more profitable that way.
It is unbelievable that something as moderate as marijuana is illegal. And as far as the harder drugs are concerned, they should be legalized, too. The war on drugs is not about "protecting citizens," it's about power, control, and money flow.
The last three presidents have also overseen the killing of a lot of people in the name of fighting the same drugs they themselves once did, so I wouldn't be so sure that Americans would never go for the Maoist solution.
I found the video effective when it came to the facts presented, but the editing was a bit slapdash imo. You should work on voice-over pacing and not overloading the eyes with every single word spelled out.
@thekruge The war on drugs also has a massive human cost. Drug prohibition has led to unprecedented violence, poverty and imprisonment. So yeah this is a moral issue. The war on drugs is a virulent and destructive policy that must be stoped.
Drugs are an inanimate object. The idea of war is to KILL your enemy or force him to surrender. How does one do this to inanimate objects? So let's call it what it is, the War on the American People.
To hell with US gov - all they care about is money and money related stats. I don't want decriminalization - with decrim, the laws are still on the books - I WANT LEGALIZATION.
Continuing my earlier post: Cato institute (Libertarian bias) suggests that beer consumption jumped but hard liquor use remained proportional. The best evidence opposing this view was a medical study done in 1975, which at first glance, shows a large increase in Cirrhosis of the liver commensurate with increased alcohol consumption since repeal. Anyhow, I am not arguing the merits of alcohol prohibition, I am just saying alcohol consumption increased after repeal as I suspect drug usage would
Sure, but convicted makers/cooks/chemists (what ever they call them) of meth, heroine, crack or any of the other hardcore drugs should be executed by overdose of their own product. Also anyone convicted of a violent crime induced by or in order to purchase said hardcore drugs. imho.
Let's use the Milton method (decriminalization) of the Maoist method on the Cartels. Sound victory. But really, decriminalization is an outrageously stupid idea. Have y'all ever been to parties; broken windows, knife to tires, broken mailboxes, overdoses, etc. What is it with people today. Thinking that you have to experience every kind of human emotion to "live". What a fools dream. I suppose I should feel like an idiot today so I can experience "how that person feels"...
Let's use the Milton method (decriminalization) of the Maoist method on the Cartels. Sound victory. But really, decriminalization is an outrageously stupid idea. Have y'all ever been to parties; broken windows, knife to tires, broken mailboxes, overdoses, etc. What is it with people today. Thinking that you have to experience every kind of human emotion to "live". What a fools dream. I suppose I should feel like an idiot today so I can experience "how that person feels"...
Let's use the Milton method (decriminalization) of the Maoist method on the Cartels. Sound victory. But really, decriminalization is an outrageously stupid idea. Have y'all ever been to parties; broken windows, knife to tires, broken mailboxes, overdoses, etc. What is it with people today. Thinking that you have to experience every kind of human emotion to "live". What a fools dream. I suppose I should feel like an idiot today so I can experience "how that person feels"...
@DJameseNMS I am going to take a guess that you are an adult. Now when you moved out of your mom and dads house did you feel the freedom that you had? Did you feel the personal responsibility that you had? Now lets put that freedom, that personal responsibility on ourselves instead of the federal government telling us what we can and can't do. If you break windows, knife tires, break mailboxes, or overdose then it should be your problem and not mine. You either pay for it with money or jail.
so i guess its ok to have drug addict teachers doctors and even politicians...woohoooooo way to go ron paul....the nation gets a benefit when your have healthy soldiers doctors teachers etc....i mean we cut medicare and medicaid we could save billionzzzz
@Khanw000000000t If drugs were leagalized it would be the same as alcohol. If you showed up drunk to your job would you or wouldn't you be fired? Why couldn't it be the same for drugs? If people showed up drugged up why couldn't they be fired from their job? It's called personal responsibility. Have the responsibility for yourself.
@AMcGrath82 yea obviously when you treat prisoners like kings and spend thousands of dollars on them...and their connections gets even stronger...maybe some stronger immigration laws why not those instead of legalizing it and destroying our youth...? why not tighten up the laws instead of feeding drugs directly to our children?
@Khanw000000000t Because tightening up on US laws doesn't stop Mexican drug cartels. Tightening up on US laws doesn't stop the top of the drug chain -- the lower workers may go to jail, but the higher-ups always cut deals. You want to overload US prisons more than they already are? You might want to learn that educating our youth is better than threatening them. Schools are better than prisons. Lessons are better than laws. You can't run on a country on prisons. Though some may try.
@AMcGrath82 the base for all related drug-gangs is PRISON!!!! since the prison are shit and they dont know how to treat them and keep them away from each other, this gets started. and when they get deported, the gang spreads. its like a disease. and, yea teaching them well thats going to cost money too buddey.....are you actually saying money? MONEY MONEY MONEY? more than $600b goes to military and oversees wars why not spent em here?
@Khanw000000000t Why NOT spend it here? We waste more money on military spending than every other country in the world. How much money could we invest in education If we cut ONE stealth bomber from our defense budget? ONE bomber!
i think most of the drugs should be leagalized. The Government can put a tax on it and make some money. Not only does it give you that but if it's taken off the streets and out in stores, then not only will gangs loose money, you'll have less gang violance due to drug ties.
I am not afraid of a terrorist taken my freedom throughout history most people lost their freedom by a police state police are armed & retarded they will do exactly as they're told they always persecuted and crucified people they are the same type of people that crucified Jesus Christ and they enjoyed it and they robbed him of his clothing as he was dying just like the police we have today the police love hurting and killing people they are the enemy of the people and always will be
@Tellingitlikeitis09 so your saying that if Ron Paul stopped the federal governments war on drugs that the next day your going to go out and by drugs, rob a bank, kill someone, and commit suicide? Really in truly is the war on drugs really stopping people from using drugs? It even said the last 3 Presidents didn't deny the usage of drugs. There is no difference in getting high as there is going out getting drunk.
@Tellingitlikeitis09 Now I have never done drugs or have no use for drugs but using my tax money on the war on drugs is absolutely stupid. But when you make drugs legal you lower the price on them and then there is no reason for drug cartels to be selling drugs. Granted they will probably find something else to sell or some other reason to continue to fight wars but at least it isn't for drugs.
So what if making drugs illegal hasn’t stopped drug taking completely, by the same insane logic burglary and shop lifting should be legalised as it hasn’t been stopped completely. Perhaps we should have a video stating how insane it is that x amount of money has been spent trying to prevent speeding but speeding still goes on, let’s let people speed on the roads and fuck the consequences.
The largest group opposed to ENDING THE WAR ON DRUGS is the PRISON GUARDS UNION!
God forbid they lose some jobs because our BROTHERS, SISTERS, SONS, DAUGHTERS, ETC. get some help to treat their addiction rather than have to go to CRIME SCHOOL and sit in a cell. I'd rather have my TAX DOLLARS spent to help treat their addiction.
Lets not ignore the fact that some of the Guards are also the Prison Dealers!
These PRISONS also have LOBBYISTS in Washington fighting for TAX DOLLARS!
The drug war is the main, perhaps even the sole cause of the police state we are seeing in every corner of the uSofA with the SWAT raids happening hundreds of times each day and the pets and people killed, and property destroyed in those raids which are as often a raid on the wrong address or the intended victim no longer lives there as they are "successful" at hitting the right house/apt. Not to mention those raids are usually done for petty little misdemeanor offenses.
Excuse the previous typos. Continuing my post...I applaud your libertarian impulse ,which certainly appeals to me, but I don't think that complete decriminalization is possible nor entirely desirable.
Continuing my earlier post ... How about the increased health care costs due to a much larger potential pool of addicts? What a about social costs such as family problems and irrational, anti-social, and self-destructive behaviour that invariably accompanies drug addiction. Even if you decriminalize most drugs, new types of drugs would be created, that by there very nature, would be so damaging they would be have to be banned. Should we allow vendors to sell arsenic to willing consumers?
I am with you on the decriminalization of some drug use (specifically Marijuana), but what would be the financial and social costs decriminalizing all drugs, including extremely addictive substances such as Heroin, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine?
I think you underestimate the savings of such a move. With decriminalization, there would likely be a large increase in drug usage -- if the effects of lifting of the previous "prohibition" would apply.
@flogginggayness - That does not comport to the results with our history of repealing alcohol prohibition. After repealing prohibition, alcohol use, and alcoholism massively increased in the U.S. In the case of alcohol, prohibition was just not working because alcohol was a socially accepted and legal before it's prohibition. In the case of hard drugs, that is not the case here. Marijuana, perhaps...but other drugs opium, heroin, Cocaine, Crysal Ice whatever....they are too addictive IMHO
@00dal00p Id like to see your source on the "Massive" increase in Alcohol use after prohibition. But it hardly matters because Marijuana, Cocaine and Opium were all legal before prohibition, and indeed prohibition worked "so well" that it drove up the costs of drugs to such a degree that crack and crystal meth were invented for a cheap and powerful high. So what if drugs are addictive? Sniffing glue and paint is addictive. Should we ban those too?
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
@heatflash888 My children will grow up the same way I did, with a strong foundation at home, well educated about drugs, critical thinkers and leaders, not followers!
I have an Uncle that is a victim of the War on Drugs with a 27 year Cocaine addiction and with the right treatment instead of going to Crime School (jail) he would have been able to kick that addiction years ago!
He grew up in the 80's under the ignorant propaganda machine of "Just Say No" and we see how that is working! ITS NOT!
@heatflash888 After looking at your page I see we actually have a lot in common. I study the psychology of addiction and what an addict needs is treatment, not crime school. If you actually study facts instead of listening to the lies, misinformation and propaganda being thrown at you 24/7 then you would know what I know. Throw your TV out the window and actually research the topic! Be a critical thinker not a sheep, do research!
how bout an update!!
dap106 2 days ago
Not to mention the money the states earns by taxing it!!
Anduril6000 1 week ago
If we ever wanna get these things legalized we have to figure out how to dismantle the monster thats grown up around the war on drugs bubble. Banks have to find away to make money in legalization same with the prison industry. Dea has to be reallocated...etc. If we wanna do this we have to think of it as a business and remember the HUGE amount of money, legal and illegal, that entities make of them.
cblazer 2 weeks ago
@cblazer thios guy is right, what the video fails to point out is that, the fed want this war not because its good for the people but it keeps the people involved making money, if you told them that 50% of the prison population were no longer criminals and that they can expect 50% less funding each year, what do you think they're going to say to that, the rich stay rich
7onySpilotro 2 weeks ago
The DEA is a joke
julioabruno2254 3 weeks ago
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Isn't it the height of big government to tell you what you can and cannot put into your own body?
BrianSATX79 3 weeks ago
Let's lock up anyone who plays World of Warcraft too!
GildedKing 3 weeks ago
no, we should jail the people who eat too much too! Spend lots of money on jailing them because that has a small chance of helping them. And people who choose to smoke, anyone making bad decisions!
nottinmatterz2day 3 weeks ago
i hope all of you guys know that the war on Drugs is a subliminal tool to keep arrest non-whites in america and put them in the criminal record caste system. Nixon even announced the war on drugs when drug use in the USA was on a historical decline.
yuerti 3 weeks ago
So far when it comes to the War on Drugs and that it would be better at least to legalize and regulate the use of Marijuana this is considered an untouchable subject except to adhere to the status quo or even call for stiffer sentencing. Obma has weighed this out in terms of his political career and has nothing to do with Justice or doing the right thing. Real science doesn't even rate a place in this argument . People don't approve of drugs mainly based upon misleading stereotypes .GORD.
gothgod 3 weeks ago
If you understand the system you can live free. Just be smarter.
whitadow 1 month ago
American politicians are to dumb or are bought by the drug or alcohol cartels, prison cartels and the police force unions, since there would be less policing needed, they should legalize weed and regulate it just like alcohol, and tax it.
nuno115 1 month ago
The Drug was is almost won, don't give up. we're so close.
LMIMSsoi 2 months ago
I hate to agree with this but I do. I think the biggest thing keeping America from decriminalizing drugs is parents. Parents are afraid if they decriminalize drugs, their children will be exposed, potentially at a young age, and then become a drug addict. Can you blame them? It would definitely be a scary situation if I was a parent.
ARangah 2 months ago
i wish i could sit down and watch this with stephen harper.
alternativefunkbro 2 months ago
By the time you finish this video,17 people will have been arrested due to drugs.
Random0832 2 months ago 6
But how will we regulate crack or any other hard drugs. I'm all for legalizing marijuana but other drugs, it's just seems stupid. I'd like to know how it would be possible to do this.
CoDisafishy 2 months ago
@CoDisafishy laws would be put in place to enact severe punishment for drug use that leads to harming other people. It would also become a state issue as the war on drugs is unconstitutional and is using the system our founding fathers setup very poorly. The federal government should never be dictating such laws
tommy35ss 2 months ago
the DRUG WAR ,, is WAR ON PEOPLE>. stop it.
WeAskThePeople 2 months ago
you forgot about alcohol-hard drug. this is the war between alcohol users and minority who use other drugs-it's similar to religious war or sexual minority persecution
antyszwed 2 months ago
I got a question..If drugs are decriminilized. who will be in charge of selling the drugs?? Do you think drug dealers will allow that to happend?? They will just say. "damn, we cant sell drugs anymore, lets be good people"...Correct me if Im wrong. or whats the point of decriminalization?
poposisa 2 months ago
@poposisa Businesses will form and compete with eachother and you'll buy the drug you want in a store, just like alcohol. Drug dealers will either decide to go into one of these businesses or they'll do something else.
The big gangs and cartels will collapse because they'll lose their money supply. Thousands of lives would be saved, millions of people who never harmed anyone would get out of prison and contribute to society again.
Alectr0n 2 months ago
@Alectr0n BUT, cartels do not only own the drug business. they kidnap, extortion, prostitution, and so more. this wont make them collapse at all. It will only make them angry. What will they do instead?? "New" crimes, new ways to obtain again that income they were getting with drugs...theres no end. Of course drug dealers wont become legit. pay taxes??? no way. Im pro decriminalization but ive been thinking about it a lot
poposisa 2 months ago
@poposisa They get like 80-90% of their money from drug trafficking. I don't know what they would do after decriminalization but they would be one tenth as dangerous as they are now.
Petty criminals (dealers) will probably remain petty criminals and end up in prison for burglaries or something. The important thing is that people using drugs recreationally won't get thrown in prison.
Alectr0n 2 months ago
@poposisa honest business would take over and the drug cartels would not exist. For one thing the drugs would still be illegal in other countries undermining the cartel immediately. What's left of the cartel would be competing with honest business and if they want to compete price wise they would have to a public company. Therefore they could not go out and 'wipe out' the competition without being arrested. The free market is non-violent in the way it works, unlike government policies
tommy35ss 2 months ago
@tommy35ss I dont think they care if they get arrested or not...theyve been trafficking drugs since 1940's...Why should they care now?? Im sure, I dont suppose, I dont think, I KNOW they will "wipe out" all these "honest" business...Those honest business will be competition. and they will erase competition. They wont have time to compete in the way you guys say...Im sorry. Im pro decriminalization/legalization but that, what you are saying. will never work.
poposisa 2 months ago
@poposisa if you understood the free market that would not happen. For one thing the cartel's operations are based outside the country so they would not be able to quickly react to tobacco companies growing and selling it quickly. After prohibition the gangs lost power, why? Because their main source of revenue was cut off. Why would somebody buy a worse made, higher priced, possibly dangerous formulation fromwhen some dealer when they can buy a cheap, high quality, controlled formulation from--
tommy35ss 2 months ago
@poposisa --their local corner store? They wouldn't, they would buy the legal way that does not support organized crime for moral, financial, and believe it or not relative safety compared to current illegal drugs
tommy35ss 2 months ago
@tommy35ss well, lets hope it works
poposisa 2 months ago
@poposisa Read up on the decriminalization of previously "banned" substances in Portugal and how far, as a country, they have come today. Portugal's war on drugs prior to decriminalization did not mirror that of the United States, but certainly we can expect similar results. Philosophically it makes sense to decriminalize drugs, but politically...well nothing makes sense.
ctoth666 1 month ago
The awkward moment when fee.tv doesn't have hd. :D
123machet 2 months ago
I knew it was a Joke - Somewhere
YourTubeVideoss 2 months ago
Nice music
TheF0rtress 2 months ago
its pretty hard to pay attention to the actual content of this message with every single word jumping out at your like a goddamn batman cartoon
bwnorx 2 months ago
"Prohibition is the Golden Goose of Terrorism"
youtube.com/watch?v=b6t1EM4Onao&hd=1
"If our government really wanted to do something damaging to terrorist groups around the world, they would take the one step that would do that: REPEAL DRUG PROHIBITION" ~ Judge Jim Gray
techcafe 3 months ago 2
Google - The Prison Industry in the United States Costs Taxpayers Billions- and you will find out how much drugs cost in 2011.The CIA is a major drug dealer.
Shadowbear1955 3 months ago
Are you fucking serious! Wow!
MrAtrkcmo1977 4 months ago
This is probably the greatest indictment of the drug war packed into barely over 200 seconds I have ever seen...
You guys should seriously do an updated version of this every 2-3 years!
And I would recommend anyone impressed with this video to print out the infographic FEE has to go along with this video and post it where you know others will see it.
That thing is going on my wall for sure!
StateExempt 4 months ago
BIG PHARMA IS THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE....THE 1% #OCCUPY!
DgurlSunshine 4 months ago 2
There is a big difference between legalizing and decriminalization. apparently alor of people think its the same. Decriminalizing a drug means if you get caught with it you either pay a fine or go to rehab which would be exponentially less expensive to tax payers then sending people to jail. Not only that but this country was founded on rights and personal freedoms. If the Government really have a fuck about addiction and health of people them why is tobacco legal? Follow the money
WilliamRyanMilam 4 months ago
"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." -Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
kingkyzr 4 months ago 23
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legaleyesgreen 5 months ago
@sheametsfan6 ha, I can go down the street to find pot heads who sell weed (3 min walk). While it takes me about 8 min by car to get beer.
Comanglia 5 months ago
Freedom in HD, the video is 480p.
Comanglia 5 months ago
@sheametsfan6 Alcohol is more damaging because its a lot more physically harmful to you(it damages your body)and for most ppl,they can get Cannabis "more readily"then alcohol.
MrJoshsy 5 months ago
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anvegar14 5 months ago
I'm for decriminalization of weed but nothing else.
JJAB91 5 months ago
@JJAB91 Yeah, let's ban alcohol right? ...
trapedd 5 months ago
@trapedd Go away.
JJAB91 5 months ago
This video doesn't even mention how much profit companies could make selling Marijuana alone...It would be well over 500 billion dollars worldwide in a years time.
Legalize.
MrMaryJanes 5 months ago
It's all go for for drugs until your family is killed by a guy who can't afford cocaine.
Some drugs I CAN UNDERSTAND BUT SOME NO.
Use your brain a bit for you say yes to something.
The hardcore drugs like cocaine and things similar should not be legal.
ninetailschris 6 months ago
@ninetailschris What does cocaine being legal have to do with murder? Do you think keeping drugs illegal would prevent murder by people on cocaine? Do you think legalizing would increase the likelihood of being murdered by somebody on cocaine?
I find it ridiculous. I've known cocaine users, they don't care if drugs are legal, the drug alone does also not cause somebody to murder.
Criminalize the murder, not the usage of a drug. Voodoo pharmacology is a falsehood.
s0beit 6 months ago
@s0beit
What does cocaine has to do with murder?Do you know what people will do to get?Do you think that will change because it's legal?The only difference there will be is that instead killing people or robbing people for money or just shooting the dealer to get it is that no one will stop them from getting addicted in the first place.That drug can turn people from good to a horrible person who is mad for it.Addicts were on it they always say that they had to do some underhand things to get
ninetailschris 6 months ago
@ninetailschris "no one will stop them from getting addicted in the first place", nobody does RIGHT NOW.
You're assuming that a law is doing _ANYTHING_, and you're wrong. Come to the inner city I live in and tell me the drug laws work. Gang members sell drugs and kill each other, in mexico cartels murder each other and corrupt their government -- AND OURS, and in every case decriminalization has been tried (yeah, people did this), your scare stories have been proven FALSE. Do research.
s0beit 6 months ago
@s0beit
Are you honestly saying there would not be more addicts to cocaine if it was legally available we would have more addicts?They have already started just by having laws against to stop people from wanting to try it.Of course not everyone will listen to law but it's stops most from doing it.And to say they do nothing is clearly ignorance on your part because they have drug bust all the time. Can they put more effort on improving how to reduce cocaine? Yes. Part1 read part2
ninetailschris 6 months ago
@ninetailschris Yes, I'm absolutely saying that. The countries who tried it haven't experienced a major increase in addicts, and it's not just a small amount of people who break the law. They are mentally predisposed to breaking the law, they're addicts from a young age. It's a psychological condition, it isn't just somebody tries cocaine, gets instantly hooked, and no, the more effort they put into policing drugs the more profitable for cartels. Doesn't stop it.
s0beit 6 months ago
@s0beit
"Yes, I'm absolutely saying that. The countries who tried it haven't experienced a major increase in addicts"
So you admit that there is a increase?So how is that helping?You also never answered who do you think will be paying for this people medical bills?It's you and me.If you are saying that we arrest the drug addicts then send them to medical place I can understand that and there nothing wrong with that.But if your saying oh well these people are just sick let them do then ..PT2
ninetailschris 6 months ago
@ninetailschris No, in fact, there was a marked DECREASE in drug use, don't believe me google it yourself. Portugal is an example. However you're ignoring two things in your assessment, one, this is my body and I can do whatever I want with it, even use drugs. Second, stopping me from doing what I want to do is causing cartels to MURDER perfectly INNOCENT people. I must say I feel far sorrier for the child gunned down in a drive-by or in a mass-murder in mexico than the drug addict.
s0beit 6 months ago
@ninetailschris If they want help, fine! It's cheaper than prison by FAR. This systematic failure known as the "war on drugs" has killed more people than it's helped, guaranteed.
s0beit 6 months ago
@s0beit PART2
Then your sick person for saying that yourself and only see things in numbers and not lives."it isn't just somebody tries cocaine, gets instantly hooked"True in some cases but that's if you don't try many times.If you look up what cocaine does it easily can get you addicted plus what your saying is like I'm going to only have one potato chip that's not going to happen and usually never happens.I believe we need to find a way to stop this drugs in a successful way and not give up.
ninetailschris 6 months ago
@ninetailschris As some one else said, you can end the war in two ways. Mao's way and Milton's way. Mao killed drug users and drug dealers as social parasites, just flat out murdered people who did drugs. Milton's way is to call it off. This way in between is killing people. I don't see "myself", I don't use drugs, I was speaking as an example. I see things in "people" just fine, I live in the city, i hear about children being shot as young as 4 every week. Super program.
s0beit 6 months ago
@s0beit
If you make your mind narrow enough to believe that there are only two ways then you will believe.There are many ways this could be done to stop the problem we just haven't tried them.For you to take someone opinion over thousands of ideas means that your not truly look for a answer you just going for whatever sounds good.I'm personally looking projects that give ideas on how to stop the problem and limiting my self to just two extreme ideas.We just got to keep finding solutions.
ninetailschris 6 months ago
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@s0beit
"Gang members sell drugs and kill each other, in mexico cartels murder each other and corrupt their government" So you think if we made it legal to sell people would not just lower the the price from the stores? Do you think everything would just stop?"your scare stories have been proven FALSE" Are you so bias for your statements? watch?v=OITbV8rbVCY I can link you more if you like? I want to ask you something if cocaine becomes legal who do you think will be paying for there rehab?
ninetailschris 6 months ago
No one has a right to tell me what I can or can not put into my body except my doctor. All drugs must be legal in order for us to be healty
Amendment44 6 months ago 3
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RFInterests 6 months ago
Nah, forget decriminalization, just stop going after the druggies so much, write em a traffic ticket and take their loot, easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Compwhiz128 6 months ago
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tidaking816 6 months ago 2
Just Decriminilize Pot, Heroin and crack would be insane to decriminilize
ironcity1933 6 months ago
decriminalizie murder and we'd save even more
C2Dlive 6 months ago
Why don't they just make soft drugs legal? Wouldn't that help alot?
MrThomasHollander 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
narrator quit wasting your breath. its not happening
spankham73 6 months ago
How come no one mentions how much prohibitions failed? It bred crime and drug dealers made a lot of money. I mean that was one of the main reasons why they brought back alcohol. If it didn't work for Alcohol, they why would anyone think it'd work for marijuana, heroin, cocaine, ect? The thing is, it doesn't work! It's ridiculously obvious the war on drugs is a failure. The only candidate I know that wants to get rid of it is Ron Paul. Government, stop telling people what to put in their bodies!
Yabuturtle 6 months ago 33
Any sane person can look at the evidence and see prohibition that doesn't work. Yet the government has supported it for decades and is against ending it even when thousands are dying and millions are having their dignity trampled.
This can mean only one of two things; that the government is insane or that they are benefiting from the drug war and they care more about those benefits than they do about the people.
Alectr0n 2 months ago
@Alectr0n They're insane and benefiting it. The benefits is control for one thing. Just to tell people what to do. I know that's their goal is just to control pretty much everything and everything people do.
Yabuturtle 2 months ago
@Yabuturtle I think the reason why marijuana isn't legal is because of it's many health applications and it's threat to the current pharmaceuticals industry. Just to make your comment more specific, Ron Paul wants to drop Federal enforcement towards drugs and put the decision-making back to the state. If Georgia decides to not legalize marijuana, they won't. If Maine decides to legalize all drugs, they will. If the people voted for it, then that's there business.
esca8652 2 months ago
wow something good on moveon
natdavi 6 months ago
The War on Drugs has been an undeniable failure. All we have seen since it started is increase use and availability of drug use. Drug use in itself is a victimless crime. And I dont know what says failure quite like the fact that even though we go so hard against drugs, they still find their way into prisons, which are among the most highly secured areas in the country
FreedomNoticeDOTcom 6 months ago 3
Wow, if this wasn't one of the most liberal things I've ever seen, I blame the democrates
edd142 6 months ago
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@edd142 Its even more liberal than democrats... you probably dont even know what a liberal is
MrFoodismylife 6 months ago
@edd142
lolwut?
LegalHeroin 6 months ago
3.4 billion dollars to try to stop marijuana and all its doing is causing more to be produced ahahha our government fucking stupid
BrandonAnderson8002 7 months ago
Politicians lie, numbers don't !! Wake the f*ck up!
deuce2deucek 7 months ago
3.4 billion dollars to fight marijuana???
Waste of money
Batraks101 7 months ago 4
This is very well put. We need more of this in the media! I suscribed to YouTube just to thank awesome people who make inspiring videos like this. Thank you and please keep doin what your doin.
MeltingMind420 7 months ago
obama ensures that he is looking to increase the funding of the drug war. I hope to see this end in my lifetime all of these corrupt law inforcers aint making it better America is going down, going down the shit hole for sure and the government and state officers are causing this problem!
xOjbabyxO8 7 months ago
Help end the War on Drugs by uploading videos to your youtube page that promote the end to Drug Prohibiton. Thanks, 777denny
777denny1 7 months ago
Excellent video!!!
SirTenenbaum 7 months ago
@CloudsAreintheSky YUP!!! Dirt poor scumbags!
shotsky94 7 months ago
@CloudsAreintheSky Then you probably have a crappy life. Most Socialists I know are usually disgrunted unemployed(or underemployed) twenty year olds living in their basement after being propagandized by their college teachers
shotsky94 7 months ago
@shotsky94 yeah, the worst thing about socialism is its members
CloudsAreintheSky 7 months ago
@Boogonomotry We are still in Korea, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, Germany, Italy... Hmmm... When was WW2? OVER 40 YEARS AGO! And the "War on Drugs" is not the same type of war! Seriously how old are you?! ?
StephenRCranford 7 months ago
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StephenRCranford 7 months ago
OK... this is so MISLEADING... it makes it sound like if drug would legalize it would solve 50% of the number of people in jail wouldn't be in jail? If drugs were legal i guarantee you these people would be arrested for something else! So ALL theses stats sound good... but they are skewed as in... you don't know what would happen if you made it legal... it's like when they OUTLAWED guns in LONDON... you would think crime would go down... WRONG, it went UP!!!
StephenRCranford 7 months ago
@StephenRCranford
On what basis do you guarantee that? What proof do you have?
It is a not-well-enough known fact that there is a correlation between criminalization of firearms and rise of violent crime. Logical, because criminals are less afraid to be defended against anymore. But how does that refute this video?
myusernameisluc 7 months ago
@StephenRCranford Why would people in jail for drug possession go to jail anyway? The illegality of drugs creates a dangerous black market that people get sucked into. If drugs were legal, there would be no black market, prices for drugs would be lower, safety would be drastically improved. Users wouldn't become broke and have to steal to finance their drug habit if drugs were legalized. Outlawing drugs (like guns) = more crime. Also: Argentina and Portugal legalized drugs, and usage went down.
SirTenenbaum 7 months ago
@CloudsAreintheSky I smell a marxist
shotsky94 7 months ago
@shotsky94 I'm not a marxist, but I do tend towards socialism
CloudsAreintheSky 7 months ago
why does this free-market bullshit keep popping up all over the place
CloudsAreintheSky 7 months ago
@CloudsAreintheSky
Why do you think it's "bullshit"?
myusernameisluc 7 months ago
@myusernameisluc For one thing, there's no such thing as a free market. Its a political issue and cannot be objectively defined. Take immigration, for example. A truly free market would require completely open borders and unrestricted immigration, in order to let the "market decide" the kind of labour it wants. does it want an American who expects a reasonable standard of living or an Indian who can live off of rice and water? Not only do free markets not exist, they're undesirable.
CloudsAreintheSky 7 months ago
@CloudsAreintheSky
You're right a free market doesn't exist. That doesn't make the idea bullshit. Let's move on.
Next you asked a question, you didn't give an argument. I would like to hear a concrete reason why you think it's bullshit.
myusernameisluc 7 months ago
If drugs were decriminalized how many more people would die?
gentleman9876 8 months ago
@gentleman9876 thats up 2 them. if people wanna use drugs, let them.
FantasiVesslan 8 months ago
@gentleman9876 a lot less than if drugs are kept illegal
chicheater1 7 months ago
@gentleman9876
Heroin abuse spiked AFTER it was criminalized. Violent criminal gangs thrive trough the selling of products and services that are so high in price because they are illegal. Violent deaths would drop significantly.
But in the end everyone dies, no choice in that, so why don't we let them choose how to live?
myusernameisluc 7 months ago
This is a great video, but it leaves out the billions in "opportunity costs" lost to the economy by the cost to consumers of the drugs themselves, which are typically 90% profit. Whatever the total $ spent on drugs, 90% or more would necessarily be spent on other goods and services, were it to be legalized. How that money would be spent, what innovations it would generate, is literally unimaginable. Add that to the $ govt spends on this infantile exercise in futility tallied in this video.
ragtopcaddy 8 months ago
@ragtopcaddy wow thats very true
LACHLAN227 8 months ago
This will not be an effective video, sadly. If facts alone could persuade most of our fellow primates, there would not be so many Democrats. And on the other hand, not so many Republicans, either.
Corricopat1 8 months ago
Drugs should be decriminalized and the war on drugs should be called off immediately but it won't happen because there are too many jobs at stake. Think of agencies like the DEA, FBI special task forces, local police, probation officers, ect...an entire system of jobs have been created over this failed war on drugs. With no drug laws there isn't drug crime hence no drug crime enforcement. Also, make no mistake...the cartels want drugs to remain illegal. It's more profitable that way.
droman30 8 months ago 3
OMG !
nuny1010 8 months ago
It is unbelievable that something as moderate as marijuana is illegal. And as far as the harder drugs are concerned, they should be legalized, too. The war on drugs is not about "protecting citizens," it's about power, control, and money flow.
mushroomagical 8 months ago
The last three presidents have also overseen the killing of a lot of people in the name of fighting the same drugs they themselves once did, so I wouldn't be so sure that Americans would never go for the Maoist solution.
aclassicalliberal 8 months ago
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Not legalized, people would still have to pay a ticket if they were busted. Or maybe community service or something.
newsparks47 8 months ago
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Not legalized, people would still have to pay a ticket if they were busted. Or maybe community service or something.
newsparks47 8 months ago
Not legalized, people would still have to pay a ticket if they were busted. Or maybe community service or something.
newsparks47 8 months ago
Not legalized, people would still have to pay a ticket if they were busted. Or maybe community service or something.
newsparks47 8 months ago
I found the video effective when it came to the facts presented, but the editing was a bit slapdash imo. You should work on voice-over pacing and not overloading the eyes with every single word spelled out.
RobKramble 8 months ago
Google "Portugal 2001 Decriminalization of Drugs"
M3minusGrowth 8 months ago
this is a moral and ethical issue. legalization might make sense in money issues... but lets be honest, not the best idea.
thekruge 8 months ago
@thekruge The war on drugs also has a massive human cost. Drug prohibition has led to unprecedented violence, poverty and imprisonment. So yeah this is a moral issue. The war on drugs is a virulent and destructive policy that must be stoped.
darklordsma 8 months ago
Who did the sound mixing for this video? It's awful!
pmforbin 8 months ago
Drugs are an inanimate object. The idea of war is to KILL your enemy or force him to surrender. How does one do this to inanimate objects? So let's call it what it is, the War on the American People.
stacybernardslay 8 months ago 4
The war on drugs (failure) is pretty much a synonym to Prohibition of business competition.
samuriguy909 8 months ago
Portugal....
TheKaffeeKlatsch 8 months ago
To hell with US gov - all they care about is money and money related stats. I don't want decriminalization - with decrim, the laws are still on the books - I WANT LEGALIZATION.
LegaliseJayelle 8 months ago
Continuing my earlier post: Cato institute (Libertarian bias) suggests that beer consumption jumped but hard liquor use remained proportional. The best evidence opposing this view was a medical study done in 1975, which at first glance, shows a large increase in Cirrhosis of the liver commensurate with increased alcohol consumption since repeal. Anyhow, I am not arguing the merits of alcohol prohibition, I am just saying alcohol consumption increased after repeal as I suspect drug usage would
00dal00p 8 months ago
Great video! ^_^
LouisIB 8 months ago
Sure, but convicted makers/cooks/chemists (what ever they call them) of meth, heroine, crack or any of the other hardcore drugs should be executed by overdose of their own product. Also anyone convicted of a violent crime induced by or in order to purchase said hardcore drugs. imho.
Petard49 8 months ago
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Let's use the Milton method (decriminalization) of the Maoist method on the Cartels. Sound victory. But really, decriminalization is an outrageously stupid idea. Have y'all ever been to parties; broken windows, knife to tires, broken mailboxes, overdoses, etc. What is it with people today. Thinking that you have to experience every kind of human emotion to "live". What a fools dream. I suppose I should feel like an idiot today so I can experience "how that person feels"...
DJameseNMS 8 months ago
Let's use the Milton method (decriminalization) of the Maoist method on the Cartels. Sound victory. But really, decriminalization is an outrageously stupid idea. Have y'all ever been to parties; broken windows, knife to tires, broken mailboxes, overdoses, etc. What is it with people today. Thinking that you have to experience every kind of human emotion to "live". What a fools dream. I suppose I should feel like an idiot today so I can experience "how that person feels"...
DJameseNMS 8 months ago
Let's use the Milton method (decriminalization) of the Maoist method on the Cartels. Sound victory. But really, decriminalization is an outrageously stupid idea. Have y'all ever been to parties; broken windows, knife to tires, broken mailboxes, overdoses, etc. What is it with people today. Thinking that you have to experience every kind of human emotion to "live". What a fools dream. I suppose I should feel like an idiot today so I can experience "how that person feels"...
DJameseNMS 8 months ago
@DJameseNMS I am going to take a guess that you are an adult. Now when you moved out of your mom and dads house did you feel the freedom that you had? Did you feel the personal responsibility that you had? Now lets put that freedom, that personal responsibility on ourselves instead of the federal government telling us what we can and can't do. If you break windows, knife tires, break mailboxes, or overdose then it should be your problem and not mine. You either pay for it with money or jail.
marine295 8 months ago
The federal tax money huh, it was the peoples money until the government started telling us how to spend our money !
hex3n 8 months ago
so i guess its ok to have drug addict teachers doctors and even politicians...woohoooooo way to go ron paul....the nation gets a benefit when your have healthy soldiers doctors teachers etc....i mean we cut medicare and medicaid we could save billionzzzz
Khanw000000000t 8 months ago
@Khanw000000000t If drugs were leagalized it would be the same as alcohol. If you showed up drunk to your job would you or wouldn't you be fired? Why couldn't it be the same for drugs? If people showed up drugged up why couldn't they be fired from their job? It's called personal responsibility. Have the responsibility for yourself.
marine295 8 months ago
@marine295 true but drug effect are wayyyy moreeee lethal look at someone who drink and someone whos on crack? meth? heroin?
Khanw000000000t 8 months ago
@Khanw000000000t True, but look at prohibition -- it made alcohol problems worse, not better.
AMcGrath82 8 months ago
@AMcGrath82 yea obviously when you treat prisoners like kings and spend thousands of dollars on them...and their connections gets even stronger...maybe some stronger immigration laws why not those instead of legalizing it and destroying our youth...? why not tighten up the laws instead of feeding drugs directly to our children?
Khanw000000000t 8 months ago
@Khanw000000000t Because tightening up on US laws doesn't stop Mexican drug cartels. Tightening up on US laws doesn't stop the top of the drug chain -- the lower workers may go to jail, but the higher-ups always cut deals. You want to overload US prisons more than they already are? You might want to learn that educating our youth is better than threatening them. Schools are better than prisons. Lessons are better than laws. You can't run on a country on prisons. Though some may try.
AMcGrath82 8 months ago
@AMcGrath82 the base for all related drug-gangs is PRISON!!!! since the prison are shit and they dont know how to treat them and keep them away from each other, this gets started. and when they get deported, the gang spreads. its like a disease. and, yea teaching them well thats going to cost money too buddey.....are you actually saying money? MONEY MONEY MONEY? more than $600b goes to military and oversees wars why not spent em here?
Khanw000000000t 8 months ago
@Khanw000000000t Why NOT spend it here? We waste more money on military spending than every other country in the world. How much money could we invest in education If we cut ONE stealth bomber from our defense budget? ONE bomber!
AMcGrath82 8 months ago
i think most of the drugs should be leagalized. The Government can put a tax on it and make some money. Not only does it give you that but if it's taken off the streets and out in stores, then not only will gangs loose money, you'll have less gang violance due to drug ties.
Striker51z 8 months ago
I am not afraid of a terrorist taken my freedom throughout history most people lost their freedom by a police state police are armed & retarded they will do exactly as they're told they always persecuted and crucified people they are the same type of people that crucified Jesus Christ and they enjoyed it and they robbed him of his clothing as he was dying just like the police we have today the police love hurting and killing people they are the enemy of the people and always will be
KYKIN44 8 months ago
Ron Paul 2012. Excellent video.
Xylogeist 8 months ago
If you want more death..suicide..crime and drugs in your neighborhood..VOTE RON PAUL!
Tellingitlikeitis09 8 months ago
@Tellingitlikeitis09 Don't you think the crime is caused by drug LAWS, not the effects of drugs themselves?
Did alcohol cause mobsters and gang violence in the 20's?
Knightmessenger 8 months ago 2
@Tellingitlikeitis09 so your saying that if Ron Paul stopped the federal governments war on drugs that the next day your going to go out and by drugs, rob a bank, kill someone, and commit suicide? Really in truly is the war on drugs really stopping people from using drugs? It even said the last 3 Presidents didn't deny the usage of drugs. There is no difference in getting high as there is going out getting drunk.
marine295 8 months ago
@Tellingitlikeitis09 Now I have never done drugs or have no use for drugs but using my tax money on the war on drugs is absolutely stupid. But when you make drugs legal you lower the price on them and then there is no reason for drug cartels to be selling drugs. Granted they will probably find something else to sell or some other reason to continue to fight wars but at least it isn't for drugs.
marine295 8 months ago
So what if making drugs illegal hasn’t stopped drug taking completely, by the same insane logic burglary and shop lifting should be legalised as it hasn’t been stopped completely. Perhaps we should have a video stating how insane it is that x amount of money has been spent trying to prevent speeding but speeding still goes on, let’s let people speed on the roads and fuck the consequences.
heatflash888 8 months ago
Statists just don't get it... GOV'T IS THE PROBLEM!
Prohibition = Crime Profits, Murder & Tyranny!
yakyakyak69 8 months ago
The largest group opposed to ENDING THE WAR ON DRUGS is the PRISON GUARDS UNION!
God forbid they lose some jobs because our BROTHERS, SISTERS, SONS, DAUGHTERS, ETC. get some help to treat their addiction rather than have to go to CRIME SCHOOL and sit in a cell. I'd rather have my TAX DOLLARS spent to help treat their addiction.
Lets not ignore the fact that some of the Guards are also the Prison Dealers!
These PRISONS also have LOBBYISTS in Washington fighting for TAX DOLLARS!
PsychStudent85 8 months ago 21
The drug war is the main, perhaps even the sole cause of the police state we are seeing in every corner of the uSofA with the SWAT raids happening hundreds of times each day and the pets and people killed, and property destroyed in those raids which are as often a raid on the wrong address or the intended victim no longer lives there as they are "successful" at hitting the right house/apt. Not to mention those raids are usually done for petty little misdemeanor offenses.
WitchWindy 8 months ago
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Excuse the previous typos. Continuing my post...I applaud your libertarian impulse ,which certainly appeals to me, but I don't think that complete decriminalization is possible nor entirely desirable.
00dal00p 8 months ago
Continuing my earlier post ... How about the increased health care costs due to a much larger potential pool of addicts? What a about social costs such as family problems and irrational, anti-social, and self-destructive behaviour that invariably accompanies drug addiction. Even if you decriminalize most drugs, new types of drugs would be created, that by there very nature, would be so damaging they would be have to be banned. Should we allow vendors to sell arsenic to willing consumers?
00dal00p 8 months ago
I am with you on the decriminalization of some drug use (specifically Marijuana), but what would be the financial and social costs decriminalizing all drugs, including extremely addictive substances such as Heroin, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine?
I think you underestimate the savings of such a move. With decriminalization, there would likely be a large increase in drug usage -- if the effects of lifting of the previous "prohibition" would apply.
00dal00p 8 months ago
@00dal00p Portugal decriminalized most drugs and there usage went down substantially. This would most likely occur here as well.
flogginggayness 8 months ago 2
@flogginggayness - That does not comport to the results with our history of repealing alcohol prohibition. After repealing prohibition, alcohol use, and alcoholism massively increased in the U.S. In the case of alcohol, prohibition was just not working because alcohol was a socially accepted and legal before it's prohibition. In the case of hard drugs, that is not the case here. Marijuana, perhaps...but other drugs opium, heroin, Cocaine, Crysal Ice whatever....they are too addictive IMHO
00dal00p 8 months ago
@00dal00p Id like to see your source on the "Massive" increase in Alcohol use after prohibition. But it hardly matters because Marijuana, Cocaine and Opium were all legal before prohibition, and indeed prohibition worked "so well" that it drove up the costs of drugs to such a degree that crack and crystal meth were invented for a cheap and powerful high. So what if drugs are addictive? Sniffing glue and paint is addictive. Should we ban those too?
kev3d 8 months ago
@00dal00p
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
PsychStudent85 8 months ago 19
@PsychStudent85 And I'm sure you'll have the same opinion after legalisation if your children become heavily addicted.
heatflash888 8 months ago
@heatflash888 My children will grow up the same way I did, with a strong foundation at home, well educated about drugs, critical thinkers and leaders, not followers!
I have an Uncle that is a victim of the War on Drugs with a 27 year Cocaine addiction and with the right treatment instead of going to Crime School (jail) he would have been able to kick that addiction years ago!
He grew up in the 80's under the ignorant propaganda machine of "Just Say No" and we see how that is working! ITS NOT!
PsychStudent85 8 months ago 7
@heatflash888 After looking at your page I see we actually have a lot in common. I study the psychology of addiction and what an addict needs is treatment, not crime school. If you actually study facts instead of listening to the lies, misinformation and propaganda being thrown at you 24/7 then you would know what I know. Throw your TV out the window and actually research the topic! Be a critical thinker not a sheep, do research!
PsychStudent85 8 months ago 12