The Drug War was declared by President Nixon, is it a success?
By TTCCWW
@TTCCWW (579)
United States
April 21, 2010 10:36am CST
Is this Einsteins difinition of insanity, which states, insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results?
According to recent studies the drug war cost us around 50 billion dollars a year and produces little if any result in slowing the use of drugs in America.
http://drugsense.org/fundraisers/2010/DS20Apr10.htm?sources=email
The AMA (American Medical Assiociation) declared addiction a disease in the late fifty's. We have created a situation where everyone, including the government, is making money off a war that does not help the addicts or the problem.
Is it time to just legalize this proble like many other countries and stop making the gun company's and the drug runners rich?
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@TTCCWW (579)
• United States
21 Apr 10
Changing policy and looking at new ideas does not always mean "joining them".
Our country used to look at creative concepts and ideas about fixing things, now it has become black and white, right and wrong, throwing money at it and hoping that it sticks.
Most good solutions always cost the least.
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@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
22 Apr 10
You also create an amazing amount of revenue for the states, and the growers. You can grow pot much cheaper than any other crop, and the yield is hundreds of times more profitable than anything grown today. It is a win, win for everyone.
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