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The Drug War’s Immorality and Abject Failure
by Anthony Gregory
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If the idea is to create a drug-free America, then we can safely say that after hundreds of billions of dollars spent, millions of arrests, and decades of escalating police and military efforts, the war on drugs is a complete failure.
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When you consider all the costs of the drug war, imho one can’t possibly come to any conclusion that the actual direct and indirect costs far exceed the the benefits of that war.
If we could predict that drug abuse kills X people and the drug war kills Y people, then we could make a case that if Y is greater than X, should end the drug war?
The interesting part is that if you get a drug warrior on the record, they won’t admit that. “If saves just one person, it’s worth it.”
My gripe is that the whole drug paradigm, (i.e., that I have to go to a modern day medicine man / witch doctor, bribe them to give me a piece of state approved paper, then take that receipt has to be taken to a state approved building, where a bureaucrat checks with an state regulated insurance company to see how much I’ll pay, and then if I am lucky I’ll get what I need.
How about everyone buzzes off?
I’ll figure out what I need. And, I’ll go to Walmart and buy what I need. The State can just butt out. If I harm myself, then it’s my problem.
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