Which should we do to fight the drug war?
1) Give millions of dollars to the corrupt Mexican bureaucracy to fight the drug cartels in their nation, when signifigant numbers of their police are already working for them, the populace is too scared to do anything, and millions will be mispent or embezzled,
or
2) Give the millions to the DEA so good Americans can get jobs and effectively police the border and stop the horde of drug cartels trying to enter the nation. The DEA is currently in a hiring freeze btw.
Which do you think the Decider has decided to do?
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The war on drugs is a farce. Decriminalization is the only way to go. Jails should be full of violent offenders and not petty dope dealers.
Number two.
This is about American people so American people should handle it.
Neither. If people are so stupid as to smoke crack or shoot heroin, let them. Make it cheap and legal. This will remove the crime related to people robbing, stealing, and killing to money for drugs. Why should my tax money go to put some crack whore in prison for a fews, where she will just get more drugs from the gangs? How in the heck is that responsible funding? the war on drugs is a joke.
Stop the drug producer.
Neither. There are two undisputed facts about drugs that everyone can agree on.
#1. Drugs are bad for you
#2. People use them anyway
So why is this country spending so many billions of dollars every year to police an entire industry. Research shows the most effective methods to stop people from using drugs is a combination of education and treatment. Criminalization creates many problems for America. An underground black market worth I don't know how many billions a year which causes some communities to become dependent on the drug trade while creating an incredible amount of violence between rival sellers which innocent people often get caught up in, and who do you think gets all the proceeds from selling drugs. Terrorists make alot of money off drugs, so do organized crime, and drug lords. It trickles all the way down to the petty gang members selling the stuff on the streets.
Our prisons are overcrowded and our police force is overworked trying to keep people from using, while fact #2 above clearly states that it isn't working because people are still using.
While legalizing drugs may not sound like a good solution on the surface, once you start thinking about it, it makes more and more sense.
Legalizing would eliminate the black market almost overnight. Why would you buy drugs from a guy on the street when you could go to a pharmacy and buy cheaper, better quality, cleaner drugs. All people who are currently making money from manufacturing or selling drugs would take a big financial hit. That includes terrorist organizations, South American drug lords, organized crime, and the common street dealers. Since disputes involving drugs could be settled legitimately, much of the violence in the drug trade would be gone, similarly to when alcohol prohibition was repealed and murder rates dropped for the next ten years in a row.
By bringing drug use out into the open it would be easier to conduct studies on the effects of drugs and therefore increase our knowledge about drugs and therefore make education about drugs more comprehensive. I believe that if young school children could see videos of people who have been using drugs for a long time, and hear them show and tell all the negative impacts drugs have had on their life and health, that those children would be less likely to use drugs than kids who have a red ribbon week and constantly get pounded with "drugs are bad" "drugs are poison" "don't do drugs" and that's it.
Above all else think about how much income the U.S. government could get by taxing drugs. We already have drug companies (phizer comes to mind). Why not let them expand to all drugs. They'll have to expand their business and hire a lot of people. The companies will have to pay taxes, the people they hire will have to pay taxes, and the sales tax could be astronomical. Not to mention less people in jail that need to be fed and housed, and not needing the DEA anymore (reform the DEA into a terrorist fighting organization, instead of targeting cocaine producers in South America they could target Al Qaeda in the middle east).
I am in no way, shape, or form advocation drug use, but I firmly believe (and research tends to back me up on this) that by legalizing drugs violent crime will drop, criminal organizations will take a huge financial hit, legitimate government and corporations will profit greatly which should lead to less financial burden on the taxpayers, and to top it all off if we invest some of that money into treatment centers for anyone with an addiction, and a broader more comprehensive education program then we can actually reduce the number of people who use drugs.
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