The War on Drugs -

[Sicklick]

Did it actually work? If you did some reading into history, you'll know that back in the 1930s during the prohibition era, people used to drink dimethyl ether as an alternative to alcohol. Fastforward to today and you now have millions of designer drugs and research chemicals out there which are marketed for other uses, such as bath salts or even air freshener to loophole through federal analog laws, and even if the feds deem one substance illegal, they'll keep shitting out more, always remaining a step ahead of law enforcement. These substances are made to mimic the effects of illegal drugs and are usually more dangerous than the product that they're mimicking. I heard somewhere that at least 20 - 30 new designer drugs are created every year. And not only that, but there's no way for the authorities to track and shut them down either, because it's impossible. So they basically thrive as a grey market bootleg industry. In fact, back in 2010 I remember smoke shops were filled with synthetic marijuana (or spice).

But as for it's effectiveness, for the illicit substances, such as meth, it seems to have worked for the most part because now you can't even buy sudafed without ending up on a watchlist somewhere. There are also many endangered strains of marijuana due to crackdowns. But is the price worth it?

 

[Bland Crumbs]

No the price was not worth it and it did not work. Prohibition is stupid.

 

[Krystal]

Mexico still is doing their war on drugs and based on the constant findings of mass graves caused by cartel, not really too well for them. It's more or less considered a failure. But this is also from corruption in government. Villages and towns mainly rely on themselves to defend against cartel, not so much the police or army.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

It worked out for the cartels in that it allowed them to jack up the prices on everything.
It also gave us the flimsiest of excused to raid and invade shit.
Bush did one better though with the War on Terror.
Oh, the drone strikes!

 

[JosephStalin]

No. Just about as successful as Prohibition. Feds need to make marijuana legal. Hey, more tax revenue.

 

[le fishe]

The cartels have now started driving around in armoured convoys. Obviously nothing an Obamadrone can't handle but the fact they've gotten to this point is bad enough. Obviously it's a failure and always will be. The more drugs you burn, the higher the price, which means more people make more drugs. And for something like weed, all you need is some equipment and a cupboard.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

At least in the west, the war on drugs didn't work because the media torpedoed any attempt to convey the problems of drug use, approaching the problem cynically while smugly tipping their fedora at the opposition.

The end result is a drug epidemic, some racial groups regressing to caveman like mentality and corporations pushing pointless happy pills for the population while arguing over the morality of putting soma in the water supply.

 

[Biden's Chosen]

War on drugs? What drugs ever do to you?

 

[SnowStraw]

It's over, drugs won.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

It's almost like a market will always find a way, and a price point?
Remember when Rock and Blue Jeans were banned in the USSR. That worked out well also....

 

[Slap47]

The only country to ever wage a successful drug war is China. They mass executed drug dealers, and put drug users in camps. Whether or not it really succeeded is hard to say due to censorship, but it seems like it did.

The US drug war is interesting. They repress their own citizens while funding drug triangle trade.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

The only country to ever wage a successful drug war is China. They mass executed drug dealers, and put drug users in camps. Whether or not it really succeeded is hard to say due to censorship, but it seems like it did.

The US drug war is interesting. They repress their own citizens while funding drug triangle trade.

China just shipped the drugs to the US instead.

 

[potato in mah painus]

Its a failure on so many points I could fill a entire page with a single post. Ill break it down on the big ones:
-Rogue and black ops oriented government groups get their funding by managing the trade. Look at Obama's pardon list, your jaw will drop at how many high level political officials were caught shipping semi and plane loads of drugs around and got a get out of jail free card, and those were the ones that got caught.
-'Thug Life' culture which has been intentionally spread and glorified to the poor and black communities. It only takes a handful of folks brainwashed by this shit to spread it like a cancer among schools and prisons (people start forming their own gangs to protect themselves). It guarantees lots of foot solders and pawns to spread drugs around and keep money flowing.
-We treat the users who have been destroyed by this shit as criminals, or worse yet outcast them which lets them continue their self destructing addiction. Nothing is more dangerous then a tweaker looking for his next fix or having withdrawals, he or she would kill you for that $20 in your pocket. Addiction needs to be treated like a contagious disease and treated properly, but the system in place right now prefers they be shitting on the street or mugging someone instead.

Sadly all three of the points come down to the elephant in the room, there are big players that make a shit ton of money on the things above. You would need to arrest or outright kill those folks which isn't going to happen without the entire country burning down first.

 

[Eris!]

The only country to ever wage a successful drug war is China. They mass executed drug dealers, and put drug users in camps. Whether or not it really succeeded is hard to say due to censorship, but it seems like it did.

The US drug war is interesting. They repress their own citizens while funding drug triangle trade.

The thing about the Drug War or the War on Terror is that you could totally win either if you fought them like actual wars.

 

[Soulless4510]

The thing about the Drug War or the War on Terror is that you could totally win either if you fought them like actual wars.

But the problem is that the powers that be get a shit ton of money and power from these "wars" so winning them goes against their bottom line