Scary that professionals trusted to make life/death decisions are so easily swayed.
When doing your job properly will cost you your career and perhaps your freedom don't expect them to do their job properly.
Sure I get that with the DEA. But this started because of pharma companies according to the comment I responded to. Are you saying they can jail you? I mean I'm sure corruption runs deep, but do you have any sample of doctors jailed for not prescribing opioids
I don't agree with criminalizing obesity, but I wanted to point out the serious strain it puts our system under. Far more than drug use. Perhaps we shod consider regulating foods and/or having harm reduction education around food and eating habits.
You really want the intrusion of a government bureaucracy in your life telling you how much and which foodstuffs, that are perfectly safe when eaten in moderation, you can buy? Think for a while about how this can go wrong, and about what kind of agency you want over your body.
We already have that when it comes to drugs. I'm saying the industry should be regulated better, instead of a free for all. Regulation is not all or nothing.
People say it failed without recognizing how bad the crack epidemic was, and is currently only a shadow of what it could be had it been left unchecked. Yes, there are still drug problems - but not to the common extent you saw in the 80's. I think the issue is that people hear the word "war" and think that only the cops and military are the sole soldiers. There is only so much they can be expected to capture without s…
"People say it failed without recognizing how bad the crack epidemic was, and is currently only a shadow of what it could be had it been left unchecked." How exactly was it checked? It's never been hard to buy crack if you wanted it, and for every dealer busted 2 more would move in to take their place. I've yet to see evidence that the drug war did anything except for ruining a whole lot of lives and make some people…
Yes, but it also wasn't hard to buy crack even if you didn't want it - hence the problem, and the fact it has had positive impact.