Sat Apr 20, 2013, 07:08 PM

RainDog (28,784 posts)

The War on Drugs is a Failure

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/gregory-brothers-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-failure.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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11 replies	Author	Time	Post
The War on Drugs is a Failure (Original post)	RainDog	Apr 2013	OP
Classic.	Warren DeMontague	Apr 2013	#1
And more and more people are seeing it for what it is!	pgallahue	May 2013	#2
3. With new and unique materials	pgallahue	Jul 2013	#11
A New Dawn on Drug Policy	pgallahue	May 2013	#3
Thanks for the link	RainDog	May 2013	#4
cheers	pgallahue	May 2013	#5
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Jul 2013	#6
Because people have bodily sovereignty, you think they should be sterilized?	RainDog	Jul 2013	#7
sorry about that	Kali	Jul 2013	#8
good on you & MIRT	RainDog	Jul 2013	#9
the troll quality of late is just terrible	Kali	Jul 2013	#10

Response to RainDog (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2013, 07:53 PM

Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)

1. Classic.

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Response to RainDog (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2013, 06:53 AM

pgallahue (16 posts)

2. And more and more people are seeing it for what it is!

It is incredible how many are joining the debate and seriously calling out the drug war for the failure it is.

not all are quite like this though.

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Response to pgallahue (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 16, 2013, 06:11 AM

pgallahue (16 posts)

11. 3. With new and unique materials

Ha!, yes indeed. This one is unique!

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Response to RainDog (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2013, 09:25 AM

pgallahue (16 posts)

3. A New Dawn on Drug Policy

See for instance.

A New Beginning on Drug Policy

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States released a report that considers possible alternatives to current drug policies internationally and represents the most high-level discussion about drug law reform ever undertaken.

The report envisions possibilities for ending the war on drugs as well as the introduction of policies rooted in public health and human rights.

Read more: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/new-beginning-drug-policy

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Response to pgallahue (Reply #3)

Tue May 28, 2013, 01:15 PM

RainDog (28,784 posts)

4. Thanks for the link

and welcome to DU.

It's so good that nations are talking about this.

It's time to extricate our nations from decades of bad policy.

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Response to RainDog (Reply #4)

Wed May 29, 2013, 04:57 AM

pgallahue (16 posts)

5. cheers

Thanks Rain Dog!

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Sun Jul 14, 2013, 10:18 PM

RainDog (28,784 posts)

7. Because people have bodily sovereignty, you think they should be sterilized?

LOL.

That's some logic you've got going there.

And you have almost enough compassion to fill a thimble.

But, yes, it's more cost effective to treat the addiction rather than treat something as a crime.

Maybe we should arrest all overweight people who eat sugar, too, and sterilize them, and when they die, we can scorn them for their addiction, too. Yeah, that's as stupid and nasty as your suggestion.

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Response to RainDog (Reply #7)

Sun Jul 14, 2013, 10:27 PM

Kali (54,155 posts)