Drug War is a Thug Government profit gaining game

‎Tuesday, ‎July ‎4, ‎2017

                                            Money making Government Drug war...

  Fifty per cent of the people behind bars in this country are there for drug-related reasons. Alongside that, 50% of acquisitive crime is committed by less than 0.2% of the population. And that’s problematic heroin users. If we undercut the criminal gangs and prescribed heroin to addicts, most of that crime would disappear overnight. The evidence is there in Switzerland. Switzerland doesn’t go far enough, but even from their limited evidence, the crime drops that they have had are absolutely astonishing.
   Only recently, teenagers in Manchester have been left in comas after taking ecstasy. There’s a limit on how strong spirits can be. We should do the same for other drugs, because otherwise when children do get hold of these things, there’s no regulated amount.
   For one, burglars are a tiny number of people. As any police inspector or sergeant will tell you, you can decrease the number of burglaries in a town of 25,000 people by half by catching two burglars. And by catching burglars, you reduce the demand for that crime, so to speak. But by policing drugs, you don’t reduce the demand. You have no impact on the demand whatsoever.
  But the only reason why drugs are prohibited is that we made a decision.” The impulse to temporarily alter one’s mind is both natural and universal, and unless we think inebriation intrinsically immoral – in which case alcohol has to go, and probably coffee, too – to allow one method while banning another “makes no sense at all”.
  Society just collectively thought: OK then, some people are gay. And then the laws changed. Well, things are changing rapidly with attitudes to drugs now. This has become a mainstream issue.
  One smoke of crack and you’re addicted for life.’ I remember seeing Nancy Reagan on TV saying that, and it’s literally a load of crap. There is no evidential basis for that statement at all.
   Across the board, the figure is roughly 10% – the same percentage of gamblers who become problematic, interestingly – the only exception being heroin, where it is 25%.
  we will look back on the drug war one day, “and marvel at how we could ever have believed in it”.

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