Is the U.S. Govt. A) Stupid B) Ignorant With Regards to Prohibition History or C) in Love W/ Police State?
Question by Obama 2012 (NeoCons wet dream): Is the U.S. govt. A) stupid B) ignorant with regards to prohibition history or C) in love w/ police state?
The stupidity in these comments from the Obama administration is ASTOUNDING.
They ADMIT the reason there is so much violence in Mexico is because the U.S. and Mexican govt.’s are LITERALLY having a “war” with the drug cartels. The drug cartels however have an EXTREMELY profitable drug market in the U.S. (criminalization of drugs significantly ups the profit margin for heroin, cocaine, marijuana etc.) and THEY WILL protect it.
So why are we punishing the addicts and the suppliers when the POLICY is the reason why A) the drugs are extremely profitable and B) there is incentive for cartels to get heavily armed to protect these profits??
Wouldn’t it make WAY more sense to DECRIMINALIZE hard drugs (cocaine, heroin, crack, meth etc.) similar to Portugal’s program?? (hard drug rates dropped across the board, enrollment in treatment doubled)
Then LEGALIZE marijuana and regulate it just like alcohol???
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/18/us.mexico.presidential.visit/index.html
The Obama administration said one reason for the rise in violence is the pressure both governments are putting on drug cartels.
“The pressure that the Calderon administration has placed on the DTOs [drug trafficking organizations] has certainly generated a great deal of violence as those organizations fight for more restricted access to the United States in terms of the drug market,” said a senior administration official who briefed reporters Wednesday on the condition of not being identified. “But putting pressure on the DTOs is an important part of a multipronged strategy to create a lasting dismantlement of these organizations that generate crime and violence in Mexico and have deleterious effects in the United States as well.”
Portugal’s decriminalization program appears to be working. (Hard drug user rates dropped across the board)
Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html
In contrast the U.S. War on Drugs is FAILING IN EVERY RESPECT:
AP IMPACT: US drug war has met none of its goals
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100513/ap_on_re_us/failed_drug_war
Decriminalization makes these drugs MORE PROFITABLE. (for cartels since they’re illegal……….why not treat hard drug use as a public health problem instead of a criminal problem??)
Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In Calif.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126806429&ft=1&f=2&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+NprProgramsATC+%28NPR+Programs:+All+Things+Considered%29
President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon are meeting at the White House this week to discuss throwing even more money away into a failed drug war…………….wonderful.
mikegolf……….”Actually the people to blame are the drug users who are buying the stuff – knowing that the money will be used to fund violence and murder.”
So you’re going to blame addicts?? lol
That’s ridiculous considering we hardly even try to treat them.
Best answer:
Answer by hitch4645
For the most part it’s a mixture of A and B. I think they partially like a police state when the police are enforcing something that they personally are against as well, but once they do something that will harm conservatives that would end quickly.
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