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Fumesucker

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1. Sheff is touchingly naive

Reply to dkf (Original post)

Mon Apr 22, 2013, 02:09 AM

Apr 2013

The drug war hasn't failed because it never had anything to do with cutting down addiction and drug abuse, it was all about power and money at the beginning and it has only gotten more so.

You have Barack Obama who is an admitted drug user and yet still adamantly maintains the drug war is necessary. Obama's position is that it would have done him good as young man to have been arrested and sentenced for his drug use.

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80 percent of adolescents in the United States try drugs, but only 10 percent become addicted [View all] dkf Apr 2013 OP

Sheff is touchingly naive Fumesucker Apr 2013 #1

after 40 years of drug war drugs are more accessible and ubiquitous than ever, & i believe a HiPointDem Apr 2013 #5

I agree pipoman Apr 2013 #2

I just thought the stat was worth noting. dkf Apr 2013 #3

IMO that 10% would have become.addicted to alcohol if the illegal drugs didnt exist. darkangel218 Apr 2013 #4

I am a firm believer that some people are more susceptible than others SoCalDem Apr 2013 #6

The Drug War was never about rich/upper middle class whites� MrScorpio Apr 2013 #7