Someone answer this question, please. I have asked it twice already and people commented on it. Please answer.

Question

What one hypothetical fact would it take for you to believe that the war on drugs is hurting the United States rather than helping it?

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The war on drugs costs over $60 billion dollars a year
It causes 13.3 times the estimated amount of deaths that would have occured if it were legal through minor regulations
It hurts our economy and environment by not allowing the growth of industrial hemp
It has caused our prison system to contain more than 2.5 percent of Americans
It has infringed on rights protected by the bill of rights
it has caused the rate of addiction to double in comparison to the netherlands
it has limited the quality of service of medical care
the main beneficiaries of the war on drugs are Marijuana dealers because profits have risen because Marijuana prices have increased %300 percent since 1980.
Heroine in the same span of time has become over 600 times cheaper.

Answer 1

Simple. There is no fact that will make me believe the war on drugs hurts america. Sure it costs money. It is not my fault that others traffic drugs and waste our money. But if you do nothing about it, then you might as well be contributing towards it. The whole problem is that the U.S. is not going full force against it just like the whole immigration issue; if they just put all their efforts towards it, it would come to a halt. America needs regulation, this isn't a free for all land like many think it is.

Answer 2

It's sort of a human behaviour question.

For most people it's simple

drug use = BAD

Also...

The prevailing attitude is that if you make a law against something the problem will go away.

Therefore you have to make drug use illegal.

Also

These same people also believe an emotional arguement that if you make bad things legal, then everybody will be doing it.

When you have a subject that is prone to emotional arguements like drug legalization, people tend to stick to their emotional arguemtents, and aren't capable of fathoming factual arguements. They just can't "see" how those arguements are possible.

It is a fact that in most neighbourhoods in this country, it's easier to buy drugs and guns than it is to purchase cigarettes, and this is something that just can't be comprehended by those that hold their emotional arguements so dear.

And I had to edit my answer because I just noticed that 4 people gave you question a thumbs down. I had to give you a thumbs up, just because.

But this is exactly my point. Now many they gave you thumbs down because this is the second time you submitted the question, but I happen to think it's an important question. How many others simply saw you as attacking their emotional beliefs on the subject and thought "How dare you imply that drug use is good?" completely missing your point and not "thinking" at all about what it is that you are trying to convey?

Answer 3

Drugs affect people from every walk of life... every socio-economic group.
Do we really want to legalize drugs?
Which one's? All of them?
Do we really want people working with heavy equipment on LSD? Or how about Heart Surgeons on Crack? Or how about Child Care Providers on Angel Dust?
Is it only legal to certain individuals under certain circumstances?

How do we safegaurd our girls & women against Ruffies and other date rape drugs?
Do I really need to go on??
Can you see how ridiculous your question is?
Do you have a mother, father, daughter, son or anyone in your life who would be compromised by legalizing drugs? Yes! You do?
If you choose to do drugs...you can try to find justification for it instead of getting help. But I for one am not going to help you!!
Bless you! Good luck!

Answer 4

Drugs can be allowed as long as it is monitored closely and regulated to the fullest because drugs kill and can be a menace to the society.

Answer 5

Are you back with the same question again?
You are way out in left field.
Legalizing drugs will only hurt us and you know it.

Answer 6

The "war on drugs" is bullsh*t! How about a "war" on alcohol and tobacco?

Answer 7

it give the retarded gangs and addicts a way to finance there habits plus it only stars fighting from people who have it and are being arrested

Answer 8

It's hurting every living human kind in planet of apes.
The problems is children were living in misery at loss and blurr with our creator's universal gifts of life vital for their own survival and advancement of themselves in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr on what is missing inside them with their life empty with lost sense of dircetion in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr they were all blindly searching for that gifts of life.
When they don't even jnow what is missing and what it's look like in planet of apes.
They blindly turn to drugs to drown their sorrows living in misery in self destructing themselves with self annihilation to self extinction in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr they could not differentiate that drugs is self annihilation to self extinction in planet of apes.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors in the creation of living human kind into mankind in planet of apes.
Am so sorry for them when no one even notice their misery in planet of apes.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors was expose with time by the mystery of us-911.
That is why Afghanistan and Iraq is vital for our own survival and advancement of ourselves before it's too late with what is over the horizon in planet of apes.
Sorry have to kick the butts of the dirty old men who crowned themselves as the men who would be king at loss and blurr on what went wrong out there in planet of apes.
Have to shake and wake them up in planet of apes.