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John Kelly brings truth to the table for all to see.. more deaths than 12 years of Vietnam
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:31 am
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:31 am
-It’s the highest number of drug-related deaths our country has ever seen. It’s more deaths than the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1995
-In a single year, we’ve lost nearly as many Americans to drug overdose as we lost in battle in World War I.
-Almost as many as was lost in 12 years in Vietnam.
-That number—as high as it is—says nothing about the long-term health damage to our citizens who survive
-the extremes of crime and violence inherent in the illegal-drug enterprise.
-The damage TCOs do is not only violence and potential terror. It is also vast tonnages of marijuana and hard drugs—cocaine, heroin, counterfeit opiates, fentanyl, and meth amphetamines—they smuggle across our borders to feed both the recreational and addictive U.S. drug demand.
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-In a single year, we’ve lost nearly as many Americans to drug overdose as we lost in battle in World War I.
-Almost as many as was lost in 12 years in Vietnam.
-That number—as high as it is—says nothing about the long-term health damage to our citizens who survive
-the extremes of crime and violence inherent in the illegal-drug enterprise.
-The damage TCOs do is not only violence and potential terror. It is also vast tonnages of marijuana and hard drugs—cocaine, heroin, counterfeit opiates, fentanyl, and meth amphetamines—they smuggle across our borders to feed both the recreational and addictive U.S. drug demand.
LINK
This post was edited on 4/19/17 at 10:32 am
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Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:36 am to MButterfly
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has largely blamed Latin American drug cartels for the unprecedented 52,000-plus drug overdose deaths in America during 2015 alone
But locks up an exponential more number of users than cartel members.
Wierd. Why punish the victims, if he truly believes what he says?
This post was edited on 4/19/17 at 10:37 am
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:38 am to MButterfly
So your saying the current course of enforcement and lack of education and rehabilitation isnt working
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:38 am to MButterfly
We should mount a military type struggle against drugs, maybe like a war on drugs or something.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:39 am to MButterfly
So...more war on drugs?
I think we should have an opt out society...
Pick a couple states and open them for a free-for-all...no laws, no government
Kansas is probably a good choice
I think we should have an opt out society...
Pick a couple states and open them for a free-for-all...no laws, no government
Kansas is probably a good choice
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:39 am to Lakeboy7
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war on drugs
I lol'd
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:40 am to MSMHater
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52,000-plus drug overdose deaths in America during 2015 alone
That is a crazy amount. Didn't think it was anywhere near that big of a number.
Drugs can come in with impunity. For every backpack of weed or meth they catch, 10+ come in undetected. Hopefully that has been curtailed with DJT Admin.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:40 am to MSMHater
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But locks up an exponential more number of users than cartel members.
3 months in is going to right the ship after 8 years of turning it to this point?
Get real.
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Wierd. Why punish the victims, if he truly believes what he says?
What's even more weird is the fact that you think locking up is more punishment than death...
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:41 am to MSMHater
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But locks up an exponential more number of users than cartel members.
Wierd. Why punish the victims, if he truly believes what he says?
It's not weird at all. We can only control what we can control. We have zero control over the supply, unless you wish us to invade Mexico and other nations to take down cartel members. We can however control the demand by placing those who use drugs into jail .
Of course when we DO get a supplier, he goes to jail to , or she.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:41 am to TROLA
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So your saying the current course of enforcement
I'm saying 8 years of moving us to this point has to be reversed.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:42 am to TROLA
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education and rehabilitation
get that hippie shite out of here! Only punishment works
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:42 am to Lakeboy7
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We should mount a military type struggle against drugs, maybe like a war on drugs or something.
I think that name is trademarked. LOL
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:42 am to MButterfly
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What's even more weird is the fact that you think locking up is more punishment than death...
i think the issue is that the policy of putting them in prison doesn't divert them from the path leading towards death
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:45 am to MButterfly
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I'm saying 8 years of moving us to this point has to be reversed.
What exactly occurred in the past 8 years that led us to the current numbers..
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:47 am to TROLA
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What exactly occurred in the past 8 years that led us to the current numbers..
Hmmm, rampant prescribing of opiates that hooks millions;
then take opiates away...
na thats not it
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:48 am to Lakeboy7
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maybe like a war on drugs or something
If we would go full Duterte in the war on drugs it would actually accomplish something. Enough of this grab assing.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:48 am to MButterfly
I the war on drugs, drugs won. Time to rethink our approach
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:49 am to MButterfly
What is your level of sympathy for someone who dies of cancer from cigarettes or liver failure from alcohol, compared to someone who dies of drug overdose?
I have no sympathy for either.
I have no sympathy for either.
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:49 am to MSMHater
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Why punish the victims
Voluntary drug users ARE NOT victims brah
Posted on 4/19/17 at 10:49 am to Lakeboy7
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maybe like a war on drugs
You don't have a war on drugs. You have a tongue in cheek war
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