In the future, will the war on drugs go down as a failure with the likes of prohibition?

Answer 1

It should be, but it will take a long long time.
During the prohibition of alcohol, organized crime was extremely enhanced. The only crime that dropped was spousal abuse.
When you're high on pot, for example, you don't really feel like smacking anyone. But that isn't the point. The point is that the price will come down, our prisons will practically empty (saving tax dollars).
One of the strongest groups OPPOSING legalization is the prison guard union. Illegal drugs make for more prisoners, which means more prisons and more guard jobs.
Ironically, two of the worst drugs as far as public health, alcohol and tobacco, are legal.
This website (started by an ex-police chief) called "Law Enforcement Against Prohibition" might interest you: http://www.leap.cc/

Answer 2

Eventually, then regulation will come in and a logical hierarchy will be established where basically benign drugs like weed, LSD, peyote, etc will be legal and harder drugs with high addiction levels will remain illegal but with a better and broader range of treatment options available, I still find the hypocrisy of marijuana's illegality ironic, you can sit in a tavern and down martini's while smoking a cigar but you can't smoke a freakin' joint in your home on a Saturday night, also statistically speaking Alcohol and Tobacco have far more proven detriments than marijuana, I don't buy the gateway drug argument at all, I'm 47 years old and Tobacco was my gateway drug, I've given it up but still use marijuana though a GREAT deal less than when I was younger

To AMS, you're right in the fact the dealers of hard drugs are violent, much like bootleggers during prohibition, this is the era that brought the first drive by shootings or gangland slayings as they were referrred to then, but that said eleminating the source of income through access with regulation will, in my very humble opinion eleminate this element since when drugs are taken away from the thugs and controlled by the government the reasons for the violence will be eliminated, those who are true criminal, as you well know, will just find new sources of activity since that is the nature of the beast, some people will always look for the shortcut to fast easy money, it's inherent in some people

Also to Ruth before it was meth it was crack before that heroin, there is always going to be people who want to get high, we need to entirely rethink our approach since 30 years and 30 billion dollars have done little to chage usage rates. look at a flow chart and the best you see over tha last 30 years are modest declines and modest increases, depending on the years, you cannot eleminate it so we have to find a more intelligent, realistic way of dealing with it

Answer 3

i rather have self belief you're the absolutely individual whom writes more advantageous than I... As a retired Police Officer i will attest Marijuana is in simple terms yet another drug, at the same time as used for leisure applications it in simple terms makes stupid people extra stupid and wise ones, stupid. Alcohol does the very similar ingredient, yet, that's legal, for the most section. with the help of Making "drugs" unlawful, we stress consumers to step into motor autos and force to the backroads to drink or get stoned. Purhaps if all drugs were legal, this hiding does not occure and those whom pick to apply them ought to benefit this brazenly, at homestead. This issue is about family contributors intervention and under no circumstances authorities; the exception must be, in case you force inebriated or Stoned, your honest sport for regulation enforcement. practise is the major as No regulation will end all people from acquiring and employing Any Drug, Ever. Prohibition confirmed us what makingt undesirable regulation became all about, Alcohol being made unlawful became bought besides for prime expenditures and this "new" drug issue is the very similar as prohibition became of the 1920's. the money spent of "drug interediction" and policing ought to nicely be spent on practise.

Answer 4

the success of the war on drugs depends, in part, on america's influence over allies. some nations, like china and islamic countries, are far more intollerant of drugs than the us is - going so far as executing for pot crimes. but many countries have decriminalized and would basically legalize if it were not for pressure from the united states.

when the profits and revenues from recreational drugs exceeds the perceived cost of alienating the united states on this issue, or when the social cost of prohibition exceed the benefit of the united state's support on this issue, drugs will be legalized - at least in part.

once a signifigant portion of the world legalizes or substnatially decriminalizes, the united states will cave. the supply will just be overwhleming.

Answer 5

It depends on who you ask or who writes the history. It has been a success for those who wanted to change the drugs of choice from mind expanding drugs like weed, hash, and LSD, that caused people to question authority and stand up for themselves, and instead get them doing coke, meth and ecstasy, all drugs that make people submit, withdraw, and obey. The latter are all depressants, diminishing the spirit, while the former lift the spirit. I would say that those who planned this knew exactly what they wanted and got it. People will always use some drug or another, the question is, which ones will those in power permit.

Answer 6

It seems that even now, the cure is at least as bad as the disease. The current plan is to take relatively minor criminals with a chemical imbalance and send them to crime university. If they weren't real criminals when they when in, they are when they get out.

A better approach would be to legalize it and tax much of the profit right out of it, just like they did with alcohol and tobacco. Turn it into a money maker for the government, not a money pit.

Answer 7

The war on drugs is already one of our worst fiascos in history. All the drug addicts are sitting in prisons and the cost of rehabilitation for drug addiction would be 1/10th the cost of maintaining prison for these people. If drugs were legal I wouldn't be jumping in line to try it.

Answer 8

Not as long as meth is around.

This war saves lives. It's a war worth fighting, because the victims are children.

EDIT: To the person who e-mailed me, I am a criminal defense attorney. All I know about meth, I learn from my clients.

Answer 9

no i do not think so. drug addiction is on the downward trend. it is now no longer fashionable to take drugs. health freaks are more attractive. if consumption goes down, production will also go down. it will take a long time. till then we will have to fight drugs even more than we are doing now.

Answer 10

I believe in most cases yes