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 Australia waking up on drug legislation? 
#16034683 - 04/02/12 06:54 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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 Re: Australia waking up on drug legislation? [Re: psi_vosbi]
#16034736 - 04/02/12 07:12 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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duh
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Re: Australia waking up on drug legislation? [Re: psi_vosbi]
#16035882 - 04/02/12 11:00 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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That made the news a lot in New Zealand too, but it has been pointed out for years that the drug war is a failure. I think the drug war is now being conducted out of sheer spite rather than a belief that it helps anything.
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Re: Australia waking up on drug legislation? [Re: viktor]
#16036167 - 04/03/12 12:08 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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viktor said:
That made the news a lot in New Zealand too, but it has been pointed out for years that the drug war is a failure. I think the drug war is now being conducted out of sheer spite rather than a belief that it helps anything.
I think it always was. Aks people why they support the war on drugs and they will paint a nice picture of persecuting "those people" who they can readily describe. Their prejudiced visions have everything to do with culture and class issues and nothing to do with intelligent policy judgments.
It's going to bite them soon enough though- the DEA's been getting more and more aggressive with doctors and the healthcare industry and that's when the pushback will really start in the US.
I'm also hopeful all the southerly countries that the US's drug policy has bankrupted and harmed will start to decline to be the front line for a war that wouldn't even exist but for the US's ridiculous policies and their own people's prejudices.
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Re: Australia waking up on drug legislation? [Re: johnm214]
#16036536 - 04/03/12 01:36 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah I agree. The reasons given for continuing the drug war strike me as eerily similar, in spirit if not in letter, to the reasons given for outlawing interracial marriage, homosexuality etc. When I hear them I get an image of Russell Crowe from Romper Stomper punching some Asian in the face and screaming "We don't like you!"
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Re: Australia waking up on drug legislation? [Re: viktor]
#16036954 - 04/03/12 04:54 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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It is terrible how they punish drug users, by their analogy of a "war on drugs" they are punishing and destroying the lives of prisoners of war.
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