Will ANYTHING get the US govt to stop the failed war on drugs?
Great question from a viewer about this. The war on drugs has been a total disaster. What WOULD it take for a paradigm shift from the US government?
Great question from a viewer about this. The war on drugs has been a total disaster. What WOULD it take for a paradigm shift from the US government?
Didn't Teflon Don give a speech in 90s supposedly saying only solution is legalization? And is a failed war on responsiblity much better when the commies get the government to shift from prohibition via criminalization to prohibition via medicalization? What I thought, Packman goes on to advocate presumably continued intervention via medicalization??
The commies, will just transform the war on drugs, into a war on addiction and continue fucking over the plebians and less connected for a few decades likely, after the "drug war" ends/ transforms from focus on bs social costs to bs caring about the addict individual costs.
@davidpakman/ @samseder
Depending on what you define as ending the war on drugs. If you copycat my series here, then this would help end it. But I imagine you only care about harmless popular weed and are a shill and still think adults who use crack and heroin and meth, substances that likely hurt their lives should instead be treated like children by government storm troopers, with your public health nonsense.
The point of this series is to discuss real victims of the drug war and let people know that what is happening today is unjust, and the government is actively hurting their fellow citizens. If you and Sam Seder and all the other B listers on here started talking about the victims of state action and how negative that is, or likely only war on weed for you guys, then it would probably stop much faster.
https://steemit.com/freedom/@fatkat/drug-war-stories-5-wrecked-in-wisconsin
Get rid of private prisons and a large part of your problem is solved.
I agree we should get rid of private prisons, but it's important not to overstate their importance, as only about 8% of all inmates in the US are in private prisons.
What about the industries that are built around it? Don't you think that the impact is more significant when we look at these things?
I think the problem of the war on drugs is the criminalization of it, because the money of drugs shift to the criminals, the black market, and with that kind of money you can have a lot of power and push there consumers to buy other dangerous shit. The one thing that they need to realise is that people will not stop consuming drugs that's why the italian mafia got a lot of power, the drug cartels in mexico today and a lot of bad people over the world. The solution is to legalize and regularize all drugs to shift that money to good actors and tax it, with that money it will help to fund a lot of things and you can put ads to warn and educate of the dangeours of drugs like we do with alcohol and tabacco.
Not likely since USA's drug problem is akin to their terrorism problem.
Police State frauds where they harm themselves to seem important and needed and innocent and perfect and heroic.
Drug problems are State's doing.
More mongering on the problem(s).
Cops have best dope....
Cannabis is legal in one form or another in more than half the states right now. We are winning the war on drugs! They made some strong advances early on, had a whole disinformation campaign that has lasted decades. But slowly but surely we are winning the war for drugs. Really says something quite profound probably. That or I'm just baked right now...
Good point. The States are wrong since the US Federal Statutes would apply and no lower state can abrogate them. This says you have a larger problem now. They have no legality, States can't make those laws.
I don't think there ever is an end to the war on drugs, the entire problem was with the initial framing, when you wage a war, there is an enemy to defeat, but if the enemy you want to defeat is the people you want to save, there is no winning.
We always need an enemy to be at war with.
It's already happening. The paradigm is already changing. Countries around the globe are starting to decriminalize some drugs, some countries are decriminalizing ALL drugs. Many states are already starting to adopt many of these same policies, especially in regards to Marijuana. That's only the beginning. The war on drugs is coming to an end very very very soon.
I agree. I think the dominos are already falling. The world is trending towards decentralization of more than just currency. I think all of this is driven by uncertainty amongst society
The world is trying to change, but still the media is not telling this to the people..
If CNN tells the people about the cryptocurrencies and the benefits on it, about the drugs decriminalize everything would be different.
This is a slow movement... but we are on the path to a new world.
So long as the politicians are getting bribed to keep it illegal and have an easy smear like "soft on crime" it will never stop.
is a question that should be revised with much study of a political and social nature
When you take away the profit motives that helps keep it illegal, and there are many people and institutions that profit from it being illegal, then it may end. However, just like the war on terror, don't expect it to end any time soon, or even in your lifetime for that matter!
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