The War On Drugs Is The Worst Drug Of All

They can pose as your friends. They can use your kids against you. The can rifle through your trash, check your mail, monitor your computer and tap your phone. They can fly over your home scanning with infrared sensors, heat detectors and enhanced photographs.

They can search your property, vehicle, and home. They can search your clothes. They can search your body. They can search your bodily fluids.

They can take your property with no compensation leaving your family out. They can put you in a cage with violent criminals and psychotics, put you in "the hole", turn their heads as you are beaten, raped, or even murdered.

Give you a life-long record which could prevent you from ever getting a good job, receiving gov't assistance, education assistance or owning a gun to protect yourself.

They violate Constitutional rights. They violate human rights. They violate human dignity.

They can, will and do these things.

Each year they get worse. Each year they get more and more powerful. They are addicted. They are looking, every year, for a stronger fix. Denying reality, showing no compassion, showing no remorse, and presenting themselves as the moral ones. The Drug "Warriors" are addicted to the "War on Drugs"--the worse drug in history.

The Drug "Warriors" are worse than the Drug Addicts have ever been. They are the plague upon society.

 

Amen to that. Preach on, brother Libertine!

Honestly, the War on Drugs has been the cause for more government abuse and loss of civil rights than anything in our country's history.

 

I'm not fond of drugs but adults should have the right to buy anything that is harmful to themselves but not to others, especially in a country where even guns, objects designed specifically to be lethal, are sold freely. The war on drugs is not protecting anybody, and therefore knows only victims.

 

Great post, Libertine. Yet the drug war has been an abysmal failure. Drugs were seemingly everywhere in the 1990s and I suspect the reason for the recent decline in certain types of drugs is sheer boredom rather than law enforcement. In the case of LSD there is an argument that the government has been effective, but note the dramatic rise in the use of ecstasy and ask yourself if government efforts have actually brought a net decrease in drug use as a whole.

The "moral ones" are the most immoral.

 

The truth is the war on drugs is making fat cat politicians rich with kick backs and bribes from high ranking drug cartels and inslaving the people of the united states by upholding this war on drugs.


"There is a war going on, money hungry bastards are trying to lock up our loved ones. There capitalist foot soldiers blindly obeying"

who makes the laws? if its not you your not safe.

 

Thumbs up, Libertine

And the issue isn't even about drugs being harmful to the user but not others. The drugs that are legal are just as if not more harmful than the illicits. LSD, unlike alcohol, does not cause any chronic physiological or neurological damage, and many of the cited adverse effects are also caused by commonly used, uncontrolled psychotic and even over the counter medications. The only real threat a marijuana user faces are those inherent to smoking of any tobacco product, such as emphysema, lung disease, and heart attack. And a lot of studies have shown marijuana-only smokers actually smoke substantially less than their cigarette-using counterparts. The medical benefits of THC many times outweigh the detrimental effects of administering the drug by smoking.

A true addict will harm himself and others with any substance he finds pleasurable. It doesn't matter if the substance is controlled, banned, or even poisoned. A responsible user will make every effort to control his use, be aware of any addictive properties of a substance, and seek help from others when he feels the drug is starting to interfere with other activities he enjoys or finds necessary.

As with guns, drugs aren't even the real problem. Unlike guns, drug users usually have no desire to hurt either themselves or others. The problems arise because of a lack of sufficient education and support opportunities before or during drug use. In the US we are currently seeing a radical drop in both initial and sustained use of tobacco products. Not because of prohibition, which has already been proven not to work, but because of education programs, peer recognition, and tax regulations.

The War on Drugs is ludicrous, counterproductive, corrupt, and inhumane. It defiles the rights of everyone in this nation. It needs to be stopped. The entire drug enforcement administration needs to be dismantled and restructured, this time with the focus on allowing medical professionals, not misinformed conservative bureaucrats, to determine the use and distribution of drugs known to have beneficial medicinal properties, and to determine which ones are in fact beneficial and which are not.

Instead of continuing programs that unsuccessfully attempt to stop drug usage at any cost, programs need to be implemented to provide education, medical / psychological support, and mechanisms to effectively treat individuals who have detrimental addiction behaviors. The drug enforcement entity also needs checks to prevent atrocities like the current DEA regulations that interfere with physicians providing pain management to their patients who suffer from chronic pain.

The entire US drug enforcement program was conceived and remains in place because of corrupt politicians, religious intolerance, and extremism. Supposedly the same mechanisms we waged the terror war upon. From an intelligent perspective, our government is at best hypocritical and in this light is in fact only waging war on the very people it is supposed to protect.

 

Many antidrug laws were past because of racism.
Opium was made illegal to cease chinese immigrants property and deny them there culture not because it was thought to be harmful.

cocaine was first give to black americans in the south to make the more productive and was later taken away after they became addicted whites however continued to freely us the drug for many years later

weed is harmful to no one except lumber oil and textile industries and was outlawed to protect them. Read the elkhorn manifesto

you see the drug war it self is based on racism,hate,and ignorance and greed

 

I think it's insane how they have some man made drugs legal yet mind altering plants that have been on the earth before us humans even inhabited the earth are remaining illegal.

I've said it many times to many people what the governments need to do is legalize mother nature!

 

The war on drugs is a war! we are suppose to be making love not war, lead by example and people will follow.

 

And really, if you think about the "war on terrorism", all that is is terrorism. The government is trying to scare us into thinking that we need their protection to survive. Maybe if the U.S. government would stop trying to take over the world, then poeple in other countries wouldn't hate us so much. I know what happened on 911 was a terrible thing, and we should take certain precautions, but they make it seem like every arab person is going to come over here and try to kill us. The majority of people in the middle east don't even have enough money to feed their families, yet people think that they're only concerned with finding a way to come here and hurt us. Our government, in some aspects, is no better than the worst terrorist groups out there. They terrorize the very people that they are supposed to be "protecting". And about the drug oppression, how can they have legal tobacco and alcohol but not marijuana? Alcohol can make people totally unable to function properly, while with marijuana you can still do normal things. I think it's probably because they wouldn't be able to make much money off of it because it can easily be grown by everyone. They know that it wouldn't hurt us, but they can make money off of arresting people for having/using it, so they keep it illegal. We need to stand up and do something about it. Spread the word!

 

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Why does the government care what we do to ourselves
Consensual crimes like drugs and prostitution should be taxed and governtment run
DO you think the government wouldn't be able to give out big welfare checks if they ran the drugs and prostitution.
I dont think so.
FUCK BUSH

peace love

 

I don't understand exactly how Bush enters into a discussion of the War on Drugs. He didn't start it. Sure, he hasn't ended it, but neither has any president we've had so far. The problem isn't with our current president, even though he's as corrupt as they come. The problem is with the Republicrat party. Both branches of the party wants our freedoms. The sooner people realize there is no difference between the Republican and Democrat parties, the better off we'll all be.

 

Right on, that's so Cascadian of you. Ain't it great?

Trin

 

They don't; They just want us to think they do - especially when it serves their own purposes.

Bush doesn't enter into this discussion, but if we weren't so busy fighting some ridiculous war overseas, we may have had time to concentrate on some of the injustices over here. So I don't have a problem with the King's remark

 

I don't see anything wrong with the war on drugs. I think it is better to spend a few months in jail for illegal drug possesion than to be a slave to herion or crack cocaine for decades and lose everything you have in the proccess.

I also think that drug dealers who peddle deadly health wrecking drugs like cocaine and heroin should face the death penalty. The only reason why the war on drugs is not working is because it is not being persued vigorously enough. There should be an automatic death sentence for all those found guilty of dealing in illegal drugs. And arrested drug users should be forced to undergo compulsory drug treatment programmes or else stay in jail indefinitly.

If I was in charge of the war on drugs I would make it work you bet!

 

Paging Libertine....
You want to tackle this one, or should I....?

 

Holly fuck that scares the shit out of me just the thought of that for sure.So if someone has some opium poppys and they sell the product to people who choose to buy it they should be put to death?

What of grandma has some opium poopys in her garden should we imprison her aswell?

 

what will soon happen is pot will be taxed...its the only logical way to go.