Is the drug war a waste of money? Please answer Yes, No or Maybe?
Has the drug war helped or have we lost it already? Is it cause other problems and not stopping abuse? In other words, do you think it is a waste of money? I'm asking roughly the "fighting war" only, not efforts to school the public and treat addicts.
Best Answer:
yes, many prisoners in my state are non violent drug offender, these people are sick and deserve to be treated, not punished
No
Yes, the huge stigma that comes with illegal drugs have to do with it being illegal. There are lots arguments about drugs being illegal because of in attendance adverse affects. However, violence and all of the nightmarish horror stories comes from the illegalization of drugs think support to alcohol prohibition of the 1920's. Without alcohol prohibition there would be no Al Capone. However, The huge infrastructure of federal, state, and local law enforcement has done virtually zilch to stop people from getting high. If not from cocaine and heroin then from oxycontin and paxil. Over the finishing 30 to 40 years there is more than enough evidence to show that the so called time of war on drugs has not significantly made an impact on the drug trade at all. If it has later why is the illegal drug trade still a multi-billion dollar industry. People are going to get high elected representatives efforts cannot stop it and it will not stop it. So a smarter more efficient course of action should be regulation. <addition> So to make the addition of to KCV's comments about it affecting communities and drug users breaking into people's home's and domestic violence I think you failled to acknowledge a driving factor at the back the violence/gang activity it is illegal, so when something is illegal you own all of the negative stuff and crime that comes with it. The issue here is substance name-calling as a whole. If you are willing to concede the fact that substance verbal abuse in its entirety causes social problem then you should produce it all illegal point blank period. If you are not inclined to do that then you are embracing hypocrisy. You have many alcohol related mishaps I don't see man made illegal anytime soon I wonder why not? Let's not forget that when alcohol was illegal you have gang violence and all of that other stuff.
YES!!
The efforts to use up drug crimes are not a waste of money. Some seem to think it's alright for someone to poison their own bodies...I'll not argue that. What I will argue is when the arrangements of a drug addict go beyond the walls of their own home to the neighborhood, schools, and beyond...next it is everybody's problem. The people who live in the same community as a drug user deal with the break-ins at their home so the drug user can finance his/her addiction or the domestic violence oodles of the drugs cause. The people who live in matching community as the drug dealer have to contend with the ferocity associated with illegal drug sales, gang antagonism fighting for turf, or the amount of drug related activities associated with drug use/addiction. I don't buy the "permit them do it, it's nobody else's problem" nonsense! In all fairness...those efforts to instruct the public and treat addicts IS a part of the "drug war!"
over 30 billion a year is spent on the war on drugs I would say that the money could be better spent, but some things are working here is a connect to the drug war clock which tells you the amount of money spent and the amount of arrests made http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
Yes. If you want to kill yourself next to alcohol, tobacco, or crack is no concern of mine or the government's.
Yes. The time of war is actually being won by people on drugs. Way to turn, DEA.
