America's Disastrous Drug War Is Finally Unravelling

https://reason.com/video/2020/11/05/americas-disastrous-drug-war-is-finally-unravelling/

by sharkweek • 6 years ago

19 9 6 years ago

The war on drugs is one of the prime examples of why so many of us are so angry about politics. I'm now a middle-aged person, yet this war started before my birth and still isn't over. So many lives destroyed as pawns in a social / political / economic game. I feel the same way about health care, child care, homelessness, tuition costs, the environment - we were talking about these same issues when I was in kindergarten! Sure, the wheels of justice turn slowly, but when their revolutions are multi-generational it's downright exhausting.

refurb2• 6 years ago

If those issues were easily solved then they’d be solved by now. Point is they aren’t easy to solve.

pmiller2• 6 years ago

That's because you don't "solve" these types of problem; you manage them. Harm reduction programs, decriminalization, and legalization bring drug use out into the open, so people can get help. People don't want to be afraid of getting arrested because they admit to using drugs. You make rehab programs available to these people rather than jail cells. You make sure that first responders carry Narcan, if your area has a significant number of opiod overdoses.

Alcohol does more harm than crack or heroin. [0] Making criminals out of users literally makes no sense and does not work.

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[0] https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20101101/...

htnsao2• 6 years ago

War on Drugs > War on Terror > War on Coronavirus.. Look we're doing something.

amanaplanacanal• 6 years ago

At least the last one we have a plan to win.

htnsao2• 6 years ago

No it's another farce. Less freedom in the name of safety.

America's Disastrous Drug War Is Finally Unravelling

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