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Originally Posted by Mushroom
OK, this topic seems to have been totally derailed by the pothead legalization clique. Which is only fitting, since that is the kind of trash that has destroyed California, and is wokring on the rest of the nation.
They can't hold meaningfull conversations, all they do is parot over and over again "prohibition fails".
OK, this topic os now dead. SO why not move along and kill another topic with your meaninless insanity.
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Yes it is hard to support the criminally inept war on drugs. It stands in contradiction with the most basic law of economics, if there is a demand, there is a supply. Of course the bureaucrats first method of action is go 100% after the supply and do virtually nothing about the demand, guaranteeing that they get large budgets and splashy bust photo-ops. They also get to have their cake and eat it too, claiming the prohibition related violence is actually drug related violence, scaring the public into the irrational fear of a apocalyptic vision of a post-drug war world. Also regardless of failure or success they are going to get an increase in their budget. If drug use is down then they are doing something right, lets give them more funding. If drug use goes up, they need more funding to combat it.
The way I see it we have been doing the same thing for 40+ years without decreasing the use, supply and affordability of drugs. (There are drugs in super max prisons for &%#@ sakes.) And the policy has numerous, well documented unintended consequences that are pervasive throughout society and politics of the entire globe. It is time for a new approach.