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What are Necessary Components in an Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs?

Started by davidthedrake 1 year ago 18 Comments

The war on drugs destroys the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. every year.

The war on drugs needs to stop, but how do we get started? What do you think are necessary components in exit strategy for the war on drugs?

Further reading on the subject can be found here:
http://www.ilovebonn...war-on-drugs/

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Tags: drugs, exit, money, politics, prison, strategy, war

1.	Treatment Instead of Prison Time We need to help people that have problems, not continually put them in jail over and over for something they have lost control of. Add a comment	Vote! 22 votes 431 pts
2.	A Different View on Education When it Comes to Drugs By teaching our kids about drugs rather than trying to scare them into doing them, they will be able to make better decisions abou... [show more] By teaching our kids about drugs rather than trying to scare them into doing them, they will be able to make better decisions about choices they will have in their future. [show less] Add a comment	Vote! 15 votes 275 pts
3.	Regulatory Taxing and $$ Scheme This is especially true for drugs which do not cause violent behavior. There should be a system setup for interstate trade, as wel... [show more] This is especially true for drugs which do not cause violent behavior. There should be a system setup for interstate trade, as well as for farmers who have something to do with it. [show less] Add a comment	Vote! 9 votes 171 pts
4.	Laws and Amendments to Laws New laws for control and treatment as well as amendments to existing laws. Add a comment	Vote! 7 votes 128 pts
5.	drug tax must cover treatment. When I was in Holland, I was suprised to see a bus going around the city distributing free heroin. Their approach has worked mu... [show more] When I was in Holland, I was suprised to see a bus going around the city distributing free heroin. Their approach has worked much better than ours by most accounts. I believe in our right to self medication and think it is unamerican that Americans must get the drugs they need from overseas due to an inane FDA approval process that limits our freedom and deprives us from the latest lifesaving treatments denying our freedom of life liberty and persuit of happiness. I propose a tax on drugs purchased without a presciption to cover education and treatment and no prohibitive restriction on our freedom to by any drugs. The tax could be as high as 50 or 100% for some substances, or a license with a hefty license fee for anything really dangerous. There could be a quiz on the dangers and interactions you must pass to get certain drugs. This would be a MAJOR source of government income replacing the obscene profits of the mafias. The HUGE amount of money would cover the cost of monitoring, education, and treatment. [show less] Add a comment	Vote! 7 votes 127 pts
6.	More Conversations We need to get the right people to start talking about this problem. Add a comment	Vote! 6 votes 114 pts
7.	Money You gotta have money to fight people with money. Add a comment	Vote! 4 votes 70 pts
8.	Not consider addiction as a disability I've heard of how the war on drug is racist and economic based but the so called "disparity" in incarcetation is based the behavio... [show more] I've heard of how the war on drug is racist and economic based but the so called "disparity" in incarcetation is based the behaviors surrounding the use, possession and distribution of drugs. Don't get me wrong. I think the war on drugs is a failure like all prohibition and if I were President I would automatically pardon all "non-violent" drug offenders. Decriminalizing drugs would take out the dirty money that is the "root" of the evil surrounding drugs. Take away the big bucks and there's no reason to drive by on a school yard anymore. We can't the consequences of drug use though. What may be safe in nature can become extremely dangerous when concentrated. The tetragenic effects of drugs, legal or illegal, is a serious problem. We certainly don't want our surgeons of airline pilots getting stoned right before we need them so there must be some type of control. Let economics rule the day. You can do them if you want but nobody has to hire you or clothe you, or feed you. If we are prepared to deal with social problems that will incur in a manner that doesn't enable or encourage an unhealthy personal decision that society has to pay for, then legalization would work. It is ridiculous that there are longer prison terms for the recreational use of drugs than there is for child molestation. I completely appreciate what people feel about who is using the most drugs in America. The Narcotic trade is a billions of dollar a year business and that money is not being made in nickle and dime bags on ghetto street corners. Look at hollywood, Nashville and law offices and the big houses in the good neighborhoods. Sung to the tune of Charlie Pride's Mississippi Cotton-pickin' Delta Town: Picking coca leaves in the blazing sun, The Gs all lay around, they got all the guns Sure it's a living but it's not much fun In Colombian Coca Pickin' Delta Town Chorus: The Spray Birds come in, they fly all around The gunships behind em, so we dont' shoot em down But let me catch that cullo' if it gets on the ground In a Colombian Coca Pickin' Delta Town Spending my nights in a two-bit shack Turning Mother Nature into homemade crack Then I load it on some donkeys in some gunnysacks In a Colombian Coca Pickin' Delta Town. Repeat Chorus: More lyrics but too long for this forum. [show less] Add a comment	Vote! 2 votes 33 pts
9.	Put a coke user in the White House-he'll legalize everything (No description provided) 1 Comment	Vote! 1 votes 19 pts
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G_Grupie 1 year ago

davidthedrake thats a cool long topic.

and i dont think any one will read it (-:

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holotone 1 year ago Grupies think this comment is well-said!

Eeexcellent topic, davidthed.

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G_Grupie 1 year ago

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BittersweetSymphony 12 months ago

Whoa, TMI!