I don't think it's failing. I think it would be even worse if drugs were legal. You'd have to see them be used openly.Prohibition fails. Alcohol prohibition failed when tried. Drug prohibition continues to fail.
Costs billions yearly.I don't think it's failing. I think it would be even worse if drugs were legal. You'd have to see them be used openly.
I've lived in a state where pot is legal. It's illegal to smoke in public. Everywhere you go, you still see people smoking in public, smell it in public, smell it in restaurants, see people openly intoxicated on it, etc. It just happens.
Just keeping drugs out of sight, out of mind is a fantastic accomplishment of the drug war.
Worth it.Costs billions yearly.
Gives ridiculous power to the prison industrial complex, and is partially funded by it.
Partially funded by big pharma.
Violates our most basic human rights.
But hey, at least it keeps it out of sight. Win!
I would rather we take a logical approach to dealing with addction, rather than a "just say no", head in sand one. Vice will never go away, no matter how hard we try to clamp diwn. We have proof that there are better ways to dealing with it then prohibition.Worth it.
You already see enough of hard drugs and associated junkies with them being felonies and their presence, usage, and intoxication being as hidden as they can be. I would hate to see harder drugs being more visible in public and people more obviously intoxicated on them.
I would rather we take a logical approach to dealing with addction, rather than a "just say no", head in sand one. Vice will never go away, no matter how hard we try to clamp diwn. We have proof that there are better ways to dealing with it then prohibition.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/alcohol-facts-and-statistics
Fact Check: True.
Also not factored into this body count: Something like 50% of homicides involve alcohol (perp is drunk, victim is drunk, or both).
No, didn't work before and I doubt it'd work now. At most I'd like to see bars banned. You should be able to buy alcohol but you should have to consume it at home or over a friend's house or something.Its addiction potential, list of diseases it causes, number of people it kills both through disease and other ways, suffering in people it doesn't kill, etc. is unbelievable.
We ban other drugs. Why not alcohol?
It is amazing the havoc that alcohol wreaks on the lower class. Especially their families. I think the real numbers are 10x worse because lower class people don't seek medical or psychological help nor do they admit to their problems. Or they actually think having 3+ beers a day is normal.Alcohol is a core necessity in capitalist societies. The lower tiers, at minimum, require it.
I think it's just a ploy to save the war on drugs. The media has really drumming up this epidemic. What I don't think people get is that this war on prescription opioids is going to hurt patients that need them the most. Sure some doctors have over prescribed them, but it's primarily not the patients that are abusing them, it's people that get them illegally.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...lem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/septemberoctober-2017/myth-opioid-prescription-crisis
It harms the doctor patient relationship and makes doctors much more reluctant to prescribe opioids for severe pain. What do you think will happen when people that depend on them to live a semi normal life get cutoff? Some patients will, and already have, seek pain relief from illicit analogues.
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/3/26/cdc-painkillers-no-longer-driving-opioid-epidemic
Granted, opioids are not ideal for chronic pain, but for severe pain sometimes they are the only thing that works.
I don't have chronic pain, but I couldn't even get an effective painkiller prescribed when I had a large kidney stone because the urologist was reluctant to write a prescription.
I've seen people high & acting a fool on just about every drug out there over the years - but none of them can ever compare to the stupidity in which I've seen people liquored up to the max, exhibit.
& believe me, I've seen some shit.
I don't think it's failing. I think it would be even worse if drugs were legal. You'd have to see them be used openly.
I've lived in a state where pot is legal. It's illegal to smoke in public. Everywhere you go, you still see people smoking in public, smell it in public, smell it in restaurants, see people openly intoxicated on it, etc. It just happens.
Just keeping drugs out of sight, out of mind is a fantastic accomplishment of the drug war.
You suck as a human beingIts addiction potential, list of diseases it causes, number of people it kills both through disease and other ways, suffering in people it doesn't kill, etc. is unbelievable.
We ban other drugs. Why not alcohol?