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Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs!
    #18667022 - 08/06/13 06:56 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Amol Rajan: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs
August 5, 2013 - standard.co.uk

Aside from Nick Clegg and a few liberals, our politicians are cowards and hypocrites on this subject.

Next year the stupidest policy in human history will celebrate its centenary in pretty good shape. You can make a convincing case that the absurdly named War on Drugs was born in 1914, with the passing of the Harrison Narcotics Act in America. Restricting the sale and manufacture of substances such as cocaine, heroin and cannabis, this was the United States’ first federal drug policy.

Of course, 1914 was also the year another Great War broke out. It’s a grim business comparing wars but needs must. The First World War, as it is also known, lasted four years and led to perhaps 37 million deaths. The War on Drugs has lasted a century but its casualties cannot be calculated.

The wars are united in being unnecessary and divided in one crucial respect: the Great War is lamented as a terrible chapter in our history whereas the War on Drugs is with us today and continued daily by idiots seeking re-election.

We ought to call it off. It cannot be won. It is costing billions each month, causing the self-immolation of whole nations, from Mexico to Afghanistan, making gangsters rich and funded by you and me. No internationally co-ordinated policy has ever brought as much harm and suffering.

The case for legalising drugs is a marriage of principle and practicality. In principle, the state has no business stopping me from getting high, unless I’m harming others. A century of evidence shows that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the cause of harm. It is hilarious watching libertarians on the Right, who spend their lives attacking the State, run to it like terrified toddlers when it comes to drugs. They should re-read Milton Friedman, who had the courage to support legalisation.

On practicality, look at alcohol. If you legalise it, you can regulate and control supply. This is why decriminalisation of drugs, which leaves production and supply in the hands of gangsters, doesn’t go far enough.

Middle-class parents who fret that the noses of little Harry or Margot might be exposed to ghastly powders should be comforted, not scared, by legalisation: it means your children are less, not more, exposed to dangerous products and nasty dealers. And anyway, why should the anxieties of middle-class parents tomorrow trump the real, felt horrors of poorer parents — who live with the consequences of prohibition — today?

Aside from Nick Clegg and a few liberals, our politicians are cowards and hypocrites on this subject. Luckily, leaders elsewhere are showing they’ve got cojones. Uruguay legalised cannabis last week. Washington state and Colorado have done so too. The presidents of Colombia and Guatemala favour legalisation of all drugs. In Portugal, most drugs have been decriminalised.

We may be approaching a tipping point. And yet, with unforgivable ignorance and myopia, our Prime Minister uttered the following words last year: “We have a drugs policy that actually is working in Britain.” This is self-delusion, and beyond parody. For such vanities are children murdered, landscapes destroyed and whole cities run according to the whim of barons and barbarians.

If a century of failure can’t persuade our rulers to reconsider, evidence from abroad just might. We ought, then, to wish Uruguay luck — except that they won’t need it.

written by Amol Rajan


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: Lord_McLovin] * 1
    #18667541 - 08/06/13 10:28 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Its sad but it really wont end. no amount of forums posts or auto-emails to your senator or w/e is going to change anything.

The gov. is being run like a business, and taking large amounts of drugs and the assets involved in the seizure of said drugs is their largest cash cow. The only way they could make more money and have more control over everyone is if they had slaves.


Face it; its either suffer government control, or find a shack in BFE and spend the rest of your life poor and fighting off bugs as big as your fist  :courtjudge:  :fuckthisshit: :makesmecry:  :speechless:

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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: Chuckfinely] * 1
    #18667563 - 08/06/13 10:35 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

You give up and you have already lost. Things are changing, look at Colorado, Washington and South America.


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: Lord_McLovin]
    #18667746 - 08/06/13 11:27 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

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Lord_McLovin said:
You give up and you have already lost. Things are changing, look at Colorado, Washington and South America.



Which is why we need to call the troops back from afganistan, and send them to Colorado and Washington to eliminate all the drug users there by ANY means necessary. Also the US government needs to instigate a coup against these south american countries that want to legalize cannabis, and set up ultra right wing genocidal governments there

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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: Inspiration]
    #18667777 - 08/06/13 11:35 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

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Inspiration said:
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Lord_McLovin said:
You give up and you have already lost. Things are changing, look at Colorado, Washington and South America.



Which is why we need to call the troops back from afganistan, and send them to Colorado and Washington to eliminate all the drug users there by ANY means necessary. Also the US government needs to instigate a coup against these south american countries that want to legalize cannabis, and set up ultra right wing genocidal governments there




:fuckthisshit:


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: pablokabute]
    #18667940 - 08/06/13 12:18 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Ill be honest I stopped reading this at stupidest... And figured eh ill let that one slide then i had seen centenary and just closed out the browser...  I personally wouldn't want to be represented by someone who wrote this


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: natzyshroomer]
    #18667997 - 08/06/13 12:30 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Well, it's an opinion and he uses this language to emphasize how ridiculous he believes the current policy to be.


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: Inspiration]
    #18668152 - 08/06/13 12:58 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

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Lord_McLovin said:
You give up and you have already lost. Things are changing, look at Colorado, Washington and South America.



Which is why we need to call the troops back from afganistan, and send them to Colorado and Washington to eliminate all the drug users there by ANY means necessary. Also the US government needs to instigate a coup against these south american countries that want to legalize cannabis, and set up ultra right wing genocidal governments there




Then come back in 10 years to assassinate the leaders they designated for the positions because things weren't going as planned


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: Bawks]
    #18668421 - 08/06/13 01:59 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

This article looks like it was written by a teenager. The writer shouldn't be attacking politicians like an angry child having a fit.

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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: Lord_McLovin]
    #18675934 - 08/07/13 10:47 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Fuck yeah.


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: natzyshroomer]
    #18675947 - 08/07/13 10:51 PM (10 years, 9 months ago)

Yeah and he gets he z's and s's fucked up.


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Re: Have the courage to give up the War on Drugs! [Re: dextroacidsoul19]
    #18681549 - 08/09/13 04:07 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

That's because the guy is Britsh. :facepalm:


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