After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'
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Re: After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'
#2Its still doing the most important things--lining the pockets of some, criminalizing large groups of people that the government wants to marginalize, and acting as a cornerstone of restrictive laws that are imposed upon the citizenry.
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#3Created a lot of jobs in the industry of arresting and detaining humans.
Being number 1 per capita in prison population isn't a lean operation, a lot of people's lives depend on the system continuing.
I think the solution is to rent bulldozers, armor them, and just level a bunch of them. Too many prison beds, too many laws, it's all gotten very dumb.
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#4Giving poor Columbia farmers cancer by indiscriminately dumping herbicides directly on them.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/20/biden-pushes-co...
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#5Created a lot of jobs in the industry of arresting and detaining humans. Being number 1 per capita in prison population isn't a lean operation, a lot of people's lives depend on the system continuing. I think the solution is to rent bulldozers, armor them, and just level a bunch of them. Too many prison beds, too many laws, it's all gotten very dumb.
killdozer style?
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#6Imagine a better interstate commerce use of power where the supply chain was regulated by the federal government
Re: After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doing for us?'
#7Created a lot of jobs in the industry of arresting and detaining humans. Being number 1 per capita in prison population isn't a lean operation, a lot of people's lives depend on the system continuing. I think the solution is to rent bulldozers, armor them, and just level a bunch of them. Too many prison beds, too many laws, it's all gotten very dumb.
killdozer style?
Yes, and soon before all the heavy machinery has kill switches mandated in them. xD I suspect that weakness will be shored up as we internet of things every car truck and pogo stick.
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#8> "The war on drugs was an absolute miscalculation of human behavior," said Kassandra Frederique, who heads the Drug Policy Alliance, a national group that advocates for total drug decriminalization.
For me it would be incredibly interesting to know how much it was a miscalculation or actually it was very well calculated.
The "War on Drugs" have failed to make USA safer, healthier or any other positive metric.
But, it has provided many with an excuse to pass restrictive laws, to win elections, to gain contracts with the government.
I am sure that many believed, even believe today in the "War on Drugs". But, it would be very interesting to know the reasoning to start it. And how much the people that started it failed to understand human behavior, or it is just that their goals had nothing to do fight drugs problems.
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#9This is one of those weird things about American Democracy where everyone I speak to thinks the Drug War was a terrible thing and should be stopped. And yet, our politicians never substantially do anything to change the status quo.
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#10what has fighting crime done for us? we still have crime right? well yes, but it would be much worse without it