The War on Drugs is a government jobs program...

[floivanus]

The drug war just happened without any authority from the feds.

Alcohol prohibition required a constitutional amendment, because the federal government had no authority, but somehow they have the same authority to regulate drugs, without constitutional amendment. It’s BS from the top down.

 

[ShadowRun]

Yea man totally, the war on murders, rape and speeding is stupid and needs to end. Because people are going to kill rape and speed anyways.

 

[Whippy McGee]

It employs a whole lot of people.

Omar... FTW!

 

[dissectingaorticaneurysm]

Not to mention an unsecured border with a country which has Drug Cartels inside it.

Total bullshit all the way around.

Most drugs are smuggled through vehicles, hidden with legal shipments.

The points of entry ARE secured with customs agents and they still get through. "The Wall" would have zero impact on the flow of contraband.

 

[CrankJohnson]

Yea man totally, the war on murders, rape and speeding is stupid and needs to end. Because people are going to kill rape and speed anyways.

Not too bright.

 

[EyeOfNewt]

Federal agencies, cops, the entire criminal justice system like judges, lawyers and prisons etc...

It employs millions of people and the cost is waaaaay off into the billions. Legalize drugs or stem the flow and there's no need for 90% of that shit anymore. As long as there is a demand, drugs will remain illegal and plentiful.

There will be no wall.

Fight me.

Do you think cartels are real?

 

[EyeOfNewt]

The DEA worked with the Sinaloa cartel

Well, you can also say Soviet Union worked with Nazi Germany. The validity of that statement is questionable without context and time

 

[JimmyFresno]

Most drugs are smuggled through vehicles, hidden with legal shipments.

The points of entry ARE secured with customs agents and they still get through. "The Wall" would have zero impact on the flow of contraband.

Not just a wall, but eradicating the filth altogether.

As I also said, we need to give a lot more consideration as to why people want to fuck up their lives with hard drugs. We need to get serious on mental health.

There's much more to it than a wall, as you said.

 

[no fat chicks]

If all that money was spent on rehab and better schools and health care we wouldn't need a war on drugs

 

[CrankJohnson]

Do you think cartels are real?

What?

 

[jeffk]

Drug abuse should be considered a health problem, not a criminal problem.

If there is a demand, people will sell it and get people drugs. Hell, drugs are smuggled into prisons. A wall with Mexico isn't going to do much if there is a demand for drugs in the US.

Poor kids see they can make a quick buck selling screw up the prospects of future employment because they get a record. They don't make much and have kids and their kids get busted selling drugs and cycle continues.

 

[Losfer Words]

'War on drugs' implies a war is being fought and people on drugs are winning.

 

[ElKarlo]

Agree.

Yep. It also allows the police to sieze stuff for their own budgets. And allow other crimes like theft go virtually unpunished as drug stats make the department look good.
Where I used to live the cops hardly got out if their cars. Only did speeding ir drug stops

 

[Renard]

Making pot legal is one thing, decriminalizing small amounts of other drugs (possession) is fine too, but I don't see the point of all drugs 100% legal.
Hard drugs damage your brain permanently, people shouldn't be allowed to sell those openly. Whatever you saved just gets transferred into healthcare and funeral costs, on top of the economic costs of people overdosing and removing themselves from the economy and the social costs on the family.

 

[BForrester]

A secured border would be something.

Although the root of the problem lies in both countries: Our drug problems, their drug cartels. Governments that have to be complicit in this situation at this point for their sheer incompetence, and a neglegent population, just trying to get by, inbetween Ball Games.

People are always gonna use, but we aint doing what we could for people, to say the least.

Most of the drugs coming into the country are coming through tunnels and across the regular boarder crossings in trucks, not across the unsecured portions of the border.