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"The war on drugs is a failure," Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Cesar Gaviria and Ernesto Zedillo -- the former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico -- wrote in the Wall Street Journal last month. "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalization … simply haven't worked," they wrote.
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I think what hasn't worked is that the USA hasn't taken responsibility for its citizens' actions. US drug users pay the drug cartels for the drugs.
We treat drug users as a victim of a flu - not that they chose to take the drug in the first place but they somehow caught a disease. This is an outcrop of the 60s thinking - they are not responsible - they are a victim of their environment.
We should have a progressive system of drug enforcement for users
- treatment/with followup testing
- treatment/minor incarceration/followup testing
- longer incarceration/treatment
- very long incarceration - in the jungles of Columbia
Failing all that - Soma should be given to all that want it.
"The war on drugs is a failure," Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Cesar Gaviria and Ernesto Zedillo -- the former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico -- wrote in the Wall Street Journal last month. "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalization … simply haven't worked," they wrote.
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I think what hasn't worked is that the USA hasn't taken responsibility for its citizens' actions. US drug users pay the drug cartels for the drugs.
We treat drug users as a victim of a flu - not that they chose to take the drug in the first place but they somehow caught a disease. This is an outcrop of the 60s thinking - they are not responsible - they are a victim of their environment.
We should have a progressive system of drug enforcement for users
- treatment/with followup testing
- treatment/minor incarceration/followup testing
- longer incarceration/treatment
- very long incarceration - in the jungles of Columbia
Failing all that - Soma should be given to all that want it.