DAMAGE DONE : The Drug War Odyssey (Clip)

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After 30 years of drug war, illegal narcotics are decreasing in price, increasing in purity and demand continues to surge. The heroes of this film are veterans of the drug war and they urge us to consider ending drug prohibition. They have had a complete revolution in their thinking. Now they are working to end the War on Drugs. Find out what happened to change their minds.

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[PhilippeDeChampaigne]

The war on drugs kills more people than drugs do.

[MarijuanaCommunity]

Legal Drugs Kill More Than illegal Drugs.

Do Your Research!!!

[michaelsclean]

@lucool888

Which means it becomes a question of health and treatment, as opposed to law enforcement and justice. You don't see that many deaths and injuries from shootings related to alcohol deals gone bad, do you? Well during prohibition of that drug we did.

[michaelsclean]

@MarijuanaCommunity

(Currently) Legal drugs kill more than illegal drugs. Just because a drug is made legal does not necessarily make it more lethal. Safer access means less deaths related to procurement of, trade in and addiction to a drug. Regulate it (in the case of MJ preferably as little as possible)!

[plateofshrimp80s]

just saw this doc last night, it's really great! it only focuses on law enforcement experiences, men who have fought the drug war and understand its utter failures. none of them advocate doing drugs, they are still cops afterall, but that's whats so great about this doc: no goofy people talking about how legalizing weed will solve all our problems. Not that i don't think it's possible, but for that reason your not going to get people who are against legalization to watch films like The Union

[winstono75]

We must put an end to the government's license to steal drugs from people and kidnap them.

[lucool888]

@MarijuanaCommunity

First of all: legal drugs are easier to get, considered that? And second: No... they don't! Did my research!

[yerk3]

@Roshea1956 Odd that to combat what you see as a loss of freedom somehow resulting from a smaller population, you propose employing gestapo-like tactics to destroy what few freedoms we have. What next: will every woman in your utopia be required to have 10 babies each? Shutting down the borders is a TERRIBLE idea. We depend on international trade. Our economy would crash and burn like you can't even imagine. There would be an increase of crime due to the resulting spike in poverty.

[yerk3]

@Roshea1956 "Urban combatants" exist because of the black market created by our current drug laws. "Blitzed?" People on weed know what's going on around them, it isn't fucking morphine. NWO is pure conspiracy theorist bullshit. The world's population needs to be reduced though, the planet's resources cannot support our current numbers for long, it only looks good from here because we live in a disproportionately wealthy country. Elsewhere, starvation is the norm.

[Frank4ter]

Stupid people do stupid things. Smart people + drugs =NOT stupid people. Stupid people + Drugs = Stupid people on drugs. So educate the people. If he is too stupid, train him in trade. If he is irresponsible and detrimental to the freedoms of others, control and order are needed. Enforcement of the law is understandable, but prohibition of marijuana itself is more detrimental to society than legalization would be. Legalize it! and tax it if you want to

[atchisrj1]

The greatest harm of drugs is the prohibition of drugs. Deal with it.

[Roshea1956]

I can see the move to enlist upon a brainless society that needs to b controlled urban combantants, 2 remove humans from society, so blitzed the idiots will not even know that it is happening. Goal: NWO decreasing world pop to 500 million, why play their game? I think we need to comb every USA home, pull out the dealers, etc and shoot them, why waste time. I bet we would have a advanced dec. in crime, and drugs overnight, and shut down borders.