I listen to a speech the other day from a former DEA head and he described the war on drugs like this: You have 10 officers standing at the bottom of the Nigera Falls with dixie-cups, they keeping filling their cups and say ZERO tolerance for water while pouring them in a bucket....they just aren't making much of a dent.
Probition failed because the people wanted to drink...they said if they made alchol legal...millions would become alcoholics, yes but the vast majority of people don't drink...people like me!
If drugs were legal....you know allow freedom...allow people to put in their bodies whatever they wanted...the VAST majority still won't become drug addicts...people like me!
If drugs were legal...millions could be freed out of prision saving billions of dollars.
Dealers wouldn't make money...because you could buy legal drugs and tax them
We could lay off 1000's of police officers...$$$$ think!
Why continue the insanity?
2007-09-13 01:56:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
I heard somewhere that 50% of "crimes" are drug related. We have NOT or will NOT ever stop people from doing what they want to do.
2007-09-13 01:57:28 · update #1
Not only do i wholeheartedly agree with CV's comments but also add that the term "War on Drugs" is more like a "cancer on society."
What you fail to realize is that by making all drugs legal, allowing people to do to their bodies as they wish, you are also promoting a lifestyle of family disorientation, do what has to be done to continue a drug addiction, and destroy individual lives, families, and communities!
Your percentage of 50% of crimes are drug related, in my opinion, is closer to the mid 80's or higher. With that one fact in mind, I would think that drugs influence domestic violence, murders, rapes, gang wars, thefts, and a myriad of other offenses.
With your rationale...you will doom our society to a wasteland of addicts!
2007-09-13 02:20:32 · answer #1 · answered by KC V ™ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You state your points clearly, but your logic is faulted.
Prohibition didn't work because alcohol was legal and it was a part of our culture. Not everyone who drank alcohol was an alcoholic, and people in America don't generally take to having their behavior dictated to them by the government (hence the American Revolution). Churches were prohibited from using wine in their ceremonies, the working class was prohibited from drinking a cold beer on a Saturday afternoon. No more champaigne toasts at weddings.
The average American consumed alcohol moderately and responsibly, and that was being taken from them.
The average American does not use drugs. Drugs have never been a part of our culture as alcohol was. If drugs were legal, the average American would still not use drugs.
By making drugs legal, you appease only the lawless, the drug users, the drug abusers - not the average American.
If it were different, then drugs would be legal. Because we live in Democracy, if the average American wanted drugs legalized, politicians who wanted to remain in office would pass measures to legalize drugs for the masses.
If drugs were legal, there would still be a market for the drug dealers to take advantage of - just as there is a market for perfectly legal - but untaxed - cigarettes in places like NYC where tobacco taxes drive up the cost to the point where stealing and reselling cigarettes is a profitable business.
If drugs were legal, the people who are currently incarcerated for drug related offenses would remain in jail. They broke the law by using/selling drugs when using/selling drugs was illegal, and they still must pay the penalty.
If drugs were legal, we would need a larger police force, not a smaller one, to keep our streets safe from a much higher rate of DUIs.
I don't see the war on drugs as continuing the insanity. I see it as combatting the insanity.
2007-09-13 09:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by wuxxler 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No - I disagree.
We don't catch every single bank robber or burglar. Should we just raise the white flag and give up on those too? And while we are at it what about all those unsolved murders. Let's just throw in the towel and not spend any money trying to figure those out either. Think of all the money we will save.
The comments that the DEA head made are the reason he is the FORMER head of the DEA.
Part of the commitment of all law enforcement agencies is to reduce the fear and incidence of crime.
Very rarely in today's society, will any law enforcement agency be able to completely eradicate any particular crime or type of criminal.
2007-09-13 09:15:08 · answer #3 · answered by CGIV76 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i never knew there was a WART on drugs!
2007-09-13 10:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never seen a wart on drugs.......
2007-09-13 10:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by dude0795 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋