Why or why not? Thanks.
2006-12-07 02:23:54 · 14 answers · asked by mutterhalls 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
It hasn't. There are more people using now than ever. The only way to control it would be to legalize it.
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2006-12-07 02:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by Thanks for the Yahoo Jacket 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because it was based on ignorance and nonsense from the very beginning. At the time they passed the laws, they never even asked whether it would be successful.
Read the following items to understand the subject.
The short history of the marijuana laws at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
Why marijuana was outlawed - http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/mj_outlawed.htm
The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm This one contains an interesting history of what happened immediately before and after the drug laws were first passed. Drugs were not considered to be a major social problem until they were outlawed. This is the one book to read if you read only one.
2006-12-07 06:03:05 · answer #2 · answered by Cliff Schaffer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. ALL statistics point to a complete failure. Perhaps a look should be taken at countries with relaxed laws on possession and usage (the Netherlands and Canada come to mind). These are successful countries without high levels of crime and violence.
When will they learn you can't have a war on a noun?
2006-12-07 04:11:46 · answer #3 · answered by Webber 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No the Drugs won. Like the war on many other things, it was never a plan to actually solve the problem.
Now criminal gangs are everywhere bigger and more powerful than ever, are more crazy dangerous, and are expanding into slavery (sex and otherwise) as well.
2006-12-07 02:45:16 · answer #4 · answered by No Bushrons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The war on drugs can't be won as long as we have open Borders.
2006-12-07 02:56:38 · answer #5 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, people are just as stupid as they always were about drugs. They know from the beginning how addictive they are but they decide to start usiing them anyway. Then the taxpayers have to pay for them to go to rehab over and over and over again.
2006-12-07 02:27:54 · answer #6 · answered by MsFancy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No because it floods prisons with petty drug offenders which raises taxes and in turn angers the pubic. we should legalized pot and have it controlled (sold only in certain stores run by the government and then then gov't can tax the hell out of it)
2006-12-07 03:07:33 · answer #7 · answered by jefferson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, There are still millions taking them, so how could it be successful?
2006-12-07 02:30:52 · answer #8 · answered by David H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most research says no. There are a million sites - search and see.
2006-12-07 02:25:47 · answer #9 · answered by c.arsenault 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! NO! NO!
It would be very difficult to stop, reason one is life will stop, no one can drink, smoke. But again on second thought............ there wont be any second thought.
2006-12-07 02:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by doubtfulhydra 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋