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In reply to the discussion: 10 famous geniuses and their drugs of choice [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)basic civil liberties into a joke.
You have created a militarized police force, you have turned the drug cartel's into rulers, exacerbated gangs by orders of magnitudes creating more death, violence, and deteriorating poverty.
The cure does far more harm than the disease and pointing to the harm of the disease plus the cure is woefully ineffective to the point that it is probably safer to say that that the "problems" are now worse than they would be without intervention. The "treatment" doesn't even half ass work except to justify greater and greater law enforcement budgets and an explosion of corporate run private prisons.
The War on Drugs is a fraudulent scam that has introduced far greater entropy than what it was supposed to fix.
Time to admit failure, swallow foolish pride, quit endangering democracy, and move along to harm reduction before misguided fear mongering does further harm.