re: Casualty in the War on Drugs

You're talking to a brick wall man

i'm bored at work

but yeah, we've been going in circles for pages. people are just afraid to say they rather the current predicament as they probably have a vested interest.

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just as many drug users, except the ones with problems get treatment instead of being locked away. More money, more freedom, better Merica. Try to keep up

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i do know this, i prefer personal responsibility, more freedom to do as one pleases, and less government

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so do I

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i'm bored at work

but yeah, we've been going in circles for pages. people are just afraid to say they rather the current predicament as they probably have a vested interest.

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I am too...so i am playing devils advocate... agreeing would be boring

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just as many drug users,

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its legal so that number can be multiplied

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More money, more freedom, better Merica

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how?

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Try to keep up

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i will try

I literally just did. Thanks for proving my point. The only concern I didn't answer is the one about "what will the drug dealers do when they lose their job".

But I've seen numerous people answer you. It doesn't matter. Yes they may resort to stealing, but there will be more of an emphasis on hard crime, once we don't have cops setting up college kids for adderal. They'll actually be stopping crime! Imagine that

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i have heard everyone talk about the impact it has but w/o knowing what would have happened over the last 30 years we truly do not know if the impact was for the good or bad...do we?

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Globally

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Citing mass drug-related incarceration in the US, corruption and violence in developing countries and an HIV epidemic in Russia, the group urged the UN to drop its "repressive, one-size-fits-all approach" to tackling drugs, which, according to the report, has created a $300bn black market.

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Amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs: More than $51,000,000,000

Number of people arrested in 2012 in the U.S. on nonviolent drug charges: 1.55 million

Number of people arrested for a marijuana law violation in 2012: 749,825
Number of those charged with marijuana law violations who were arrested for possession only: 658,231 (88 percent)
Number of Americans incarcerated in 2012 in federal, state and local prisons and jails: 2,228,400 or 1 in every 108 adults, the highest incarceration rate in the world

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Still, many critics of the current policy believe the solution is to legalize — to bring illegal drugs out of the shadows where they are controlled by criminal gangs, into the light of the legal market where they can be regulated and taxed by the government.

Jeffrey Miron, an economist at Harvard who studies drug policy closely, has suggested that legalizing all illicit drugs would produce net benefits to the United States of some $65 billion a year, mostly by cutting public spending on enforcement as well as through reduced crime and corruption.

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The war on drugs is a global disaster, ranging from mass incarceration to violent, billion-dollar cartels. It is a public health nightmare, and a social justice embarrassment that targets communities of color and locks them up for profit. When the UN General Assembly convenes its special session on drugs in 2016, it should take heed of a groundbreaking report released May 7, which exposes the injustices of the drug war.

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Five Nobel Prize economists have weighed in on the repercussions of the global war on drugs, outlining “the effects of prohibition on security, drug prices, rule of law and public health,” according to a press release. It concludes that governments would make better use of their money and resources by supporting evidence-based policies, and calls on these governments to do so

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Prohibition plants the seeds of its own defeat by enabling traffickers to earn a premium for undertaking the special risks involved in supplying an illegal product. That means they are highly motivated to find ways around whatever roadblocks the government throws up between them and their customers. Given all the places where drugs can be produced and all the ways they can be transported to people who want them, the idea that the government could “cut off the flow” if only it made a more determined effort is a fantasy. As critics of prohibition often point out, the government cannot keep drugs out of correctional facilities, so even turning the entire country into a prison camp would not do the trick. The most that drug warriors can hope to accomplish is to impose costs on traffickers that are high enough to raise retail prices, thereby discouraging consumption.

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Economics.

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Portugal?

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Prohibition

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Why do you hate freedom so much?

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This is what caused me to take a long look at my stance on the issue. I claimed to be small govt. but you can't be small govt and support the status quo.

Did you not read Rogers post? You have to be trolling because he just answered your question