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Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CGlD50mdbs
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcWBFllF6ds
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdePbIuoHKc
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_3jMbaWjIM
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehGSfak13E4
Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzHC3kyJ8-4

The War on Drugs, A War on Ourselves? a 2002 ABC 20/20 special with John Stossel examines the effect of the War on Drugs on American society.

Stossel interviews Detroit's police chief Jerry Oliver who points out that since the dealing of drugs is between willing buyers and sellers, the War on Drugs forces cops to use deceit to catch those dealing drugs. Despite all the law enforcement resources put into fighting the drug war, availably of drugs is just as high as before the drug war began.

Three unintended consequences of the war on drugs are explored including that it sucks children into the underworld, corrupts cops, and creates crime.

Stossel travels to Colombia and examines the effect of the War on Drugs on Colombians.

The futile effect of incarcerating of drug dealers to stop the flow of drugs is noted and many people who choose to use drugs ask why they shouldn't have the freedom to choose what substances to put in their bodies.

Finally Stossel travels to Europe to see how drug legalization has affected European society.

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  • It is outrageous that some politicans keep this war alive

  • I agree, its bad enough that governments try t regulate what people pit into their bodies. But they're also trying to regulate what people in foreign countries what to grow on their own land?! The arrogance baffles me. Lets go and tell fast foods to put an end to their trans fats and to instead serve the bananas or sugarcane that these poor farmers are forced to grow.

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  • We must continue to end drugs, do you libtards have any FUCKING CLUE what it does to your body? USE YOUR HEAD! WE NEED TO BAN CIGARATEES! Fuck liberals, i hate my taxes going to help those addicts who destroy themselves.

  • Sanho Tree looks like the asian guy from The Hangover.

  • I hate it when people say "illegal is illegal". Something is illegal because we decided to make it illegal!

  • I would love to take a bat to that male politicians head, he has no grasp on reality.

  • @fuvkyougoogification Enslaved anyway....

  • @floridaman2000 yea thats it, jail up addicts and spend more of YOUR money.

    Fine with me, I dont mind living free off the system :)

  • @floridaman2000

    Steve Jobs said taking LSD was one of the most important things he ever did, and it was typical of the early pioneers of silicon valley to take acid or mushrooms, which gave them most of their ideas and inspiration. If they were in prison for "40 years", I can guarantee you would NOT be sat there typing your bullshit on such a thing as a 'Home Computer'. May as well go and burn all your music CD's, too, as 90% of musicians would have been in jail in your screwed up world.

  • LMAO grow bananas! Stupid polititions.

  • so how are the pesticides affecting the health of the people in the area?

    does the US even give a damn?

  • @floridaman2000 hahahaha still wouldn't touch it. The drugs (MONEY) HAS TOO MUCH POWER, it can't be stopped. Why can;t you accept that most drug addicts would NEVER harm a fly if it were legal. Heroin makes you relaxed and happy, but since its addictive and illegal, makes people go to more desperate measures because of the high prices, BECAUSE ITS ILLEGAL. Are you retarded like so many? Bahahahaa Sheep

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