re: Let's Talk War on Drugs

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Absolute? Nah. I, would rather the fricked up system we have now over the shite that goes down in countries that let drug lords run them.

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That's quite a stretch.

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Absolute? Nah. I, would rather the fricked up system we have now over the shite that goes down in countries that let drug lords run them.

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So is this the justification? Honestly when I was coming up with that list, at times it was tough to think of pros. No doubt there are pros and perhaps of greater weight than the cons but it's a short list.

Yeah, there's the Detroit post above and it's a valid point but the counter to that is that the WOD has likely made inner cities like Detroit as bad as the drugs themselves. No WOD there's not a black market where the reward to sell is so much greater than the risk for an uneducated kid with zero guidance. The $$ could be spent treating addicts rather than putting them behind bars, where they continue to cost us money, continue to do drugs, and learn to become better criminals so when they do get out they assuredly will not be contributing to society.

So if there's no WOD, then we'd be Colombia? Not giving shite. I'm looking for justifications and pros for it.