Five Consequences Of The Drug War

By Wednesday August 4, 2010



40 Comments
  1. dadeo says:
    8/4/2010 at 4:46 am

    Happy little video is about 1 joint long to watch…which I recommend as it’s a pretty dry interview. Lots of great points made by a man that deals with the “drug problem” every day.

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  2. Orion314 says:
    8/4/2010 at 4:58 am

    After the November elections, the Feds will take the gloves off, send in the JBT clowns, kick in the doors, and really start busting heads. AgraMed will get an eye opener about just what this government is really all about, and that is POWER at any and all costs.

    See this for the story of huge pot farms.

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  3. Sea Lawyer says:
    8/4/2010 at 5:00 am

    On a positive note, the “war on drugs” is a great jobs program. Think of all the law enforcement and corrections people who would be unemployed without it.

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  4. interglacial says:
    8/4/2010 at 5:27 am

    Prohibition is too profitable for there to be any relaxation in current laws, regardless of public intentions.

    Have you guys in California sorted out a way of auditing your electronic voting yet? Public polls show support for legalization to be around 50% so it would be very easy to engineer a plausible result.

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  5. Omar R. says:
    8/4/2010 at 6:37 am

    Hamsterdam

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  6. ECA says:
    8/4/2010 at 8:08 am

    Its always amazing to see HOW MUCH drugs is entering the USA, and still we protect against it. To very little harm to those bringing the drugs IN.

    We fight in the other nations HARDER then we do in our own.

    another point is that when the DRUGS get low, with MAJOR catches and regulation..MANY in the USA go to other drugs they can get..METH.
    METH is NOT a good drug. as well as the MAIN/BEST components are regulated to HELL AND BACK, so they use substitutes, which make it EVEN WORSE.
    IF’ the European WHITE MAN descendants.. WISH to wipe themselves out…LET THEM.

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  7. Mr Ed says:
    8/4/2010 at 8:26 am

    The “War on Drugs” is a miserable failure and those on the front lines freely admit that. But they love the employment and the military style “toys” it buys them. They don’t want this fuitle war to end – its their gravy train. Just look how many cops use ‘roids to give them an edge – its a joke and they all look the other way.
    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results – thus, the war on drugs is insanity.

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  8. chris says:
    8/4/2010 at 9:40 am

    So, I guess somebody here thinks this guy is actually a secret addict or dealer who just wants to be left alone…

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  9. smartalix says:
    8/4/2010 at 9:47 am

    Why do the conservatives think it’s OK for Arizona to make its own immigration law and not OK for any state to make its own drug laws?

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  10. bobbo, HFCS Zealot says:
    8/4/2010 at 9:50 am

    Good summary hitting the “high” points. Hadn’t heard the statistic on the murders solved. Some of that should be less drug related murders to begin with which are harder to solve?

    Also enjoyed OReally being taken on with his BS “save the kiddies” routine. Lou Dobbs who was reasonable on most subjects was anti drug legalization. All the main stream religious types are too.

    Does seem like its coming. The logic/morality/pragmatism is overwhelming. Then we can go to work on the other 736 issues that Congress has screwed up on. So much needless misery==caused by ourselves.

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  11. pedro says:
    8/4/2010 at 9:57 am

    5 consequences of drug use http://tinyurl.com/2a7dnxj

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  12. The Aberrant says:
    8/4/2010 at 10:05 am

    #11, Pedro:

    Considering that two out of those five (if indeed you count them as five; really it’s only mentioning three actual “consequences”, the first shows only a correlation and the second is only a consequence of unregulated drug use) are strictly about tobacco, already a legal “drug”, I need ask… what’s your point?

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  13. bobbo, to the left of Obama says:
    8/4/2010 at 10:20 am

    I accept all of Pedro’s bad consequences. THEN I compare them to the bad consequences shown in the video. Then I compare and contrast the relative harm/benefits. That leaves me asking:

    Pedro–whats your point?

    For bonus points==anyone for keeping drugs illegal MUST answer why not the same for tobacco and alcohol? The ultimate SMUG BASTARD William Bennet has said: “tobacco and alcohol are bad enough, we don’t need to add to them.” and I agree that is the best answer possible BUT it is a total failure because the balance of harm to good is as unbalanced as PROHIBITION informs us.

    Dogma vs common sense based on EXPERIENCE. Shows “ideas” only get you so far.

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  14. MikeN says:
    8/4/2010 at 10:22 am

    Wasn’t it black leaders like Charlie Rangel who pushed for expanding the drug war, complained about a crack cocaine epidemic etc?

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  15. bobbo, to the left of Obama says:
    8/4/2010 at 10:27 am

    Mike==lets pretend he did. So what?

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  16. smartalix says:
    8/4/2010 at 10:28 am

    MikeN,

    Yes, I also agree we should be focusing on hard drugs, not cannabis. Simple as that.

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  17. pedro says:
    8/4/2010 at 2:10 pm

    Tune in next time for rocky & bullwinkle in “we should bend our knees to drugs” or “when failure is an option”

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  18. chris says:
    8/4/2010 at 2:40 pm

    #17

    Stop something that was started for stupid reasons and has failed to work? That is un-American!

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  19. ECA says:
    8/4/2010 at 3:22 pm

    tHE ORIGINAL LEGISLATION WAS NOT on MJ.
    It was against HEMP.
    The following legislation was for the DRUG CORPS.
    restricting SELF MEDICATION..

    AFTER that they started giving REASONS..

    It was NEVER to protect you, it was to protect the corps.

    The problem I see, is that I DONT NOT CARE if you use the natural FORMS..
    Its the PROCESSED/ADULTERATED/STOMPED ON GOOD RAW STUFF.. That will hurt you more then the RAW natural GOOD STUFF.

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  20. pedro says:
    8/4/2010 at 4:10 pm

    #18 So that’s your excuse for a fail. Fail in itself

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