The Problem With The War On Drugs

[gaelic cowboy]

Ah the War on Drugs there's a Bill Hicks analogy in here somewhere but I'm a bit afraid Vuk's head might explode from real truth.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Well... you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

I don't think Vuk's idea would work since as someone pointed out the root problem of drug abuse is poverty and until you eradicate that you will just be executing hordes of poor people. How can you try to be logical about it when they are addicts, they'll do what it takes to get their fix whatever the risks. And sure you can clamp down on the top dogs but so long as crime pays and they don't have many other opportunities in life, they're going to turn to crime.

At the same time I think liberals are too smug with their utopian vision of liberalisation. Yeah, it will solve drug abuse... just like how there's no alcohol abuse when it is legal.

Nor will the black market disappear, the number of illegal cigarettes smuggled into the UK is phenomenal.

So... drug abuse will always suck whatever you do. If you are responsible then congratulations, but don't think it makes one bit of diference to an addict whether it is legal or not.

[Vuk]

I don't think Vuk's idea would work since as someone pointed out the root problem of drug abuse is poverty and until you eradicate that you will just be executing hordes of poor people. How can you try to be logical about it when they are addicts, they'll do what it takes to get their fix whatever the risks. And sure you can clamp down on the top dogs but so long as crime pays and they don't have many other opportunities in life, they're going to turn to crime.

Ah, so it is poor people who mostly buy expensive drugs? Good, now they will not be wasting all their money and driving themselves into poverty. Maybe when they are not wasting $1000s on a blood fix they will move up in the world. Also, I would be willing to bet that there is just as much drug use in the middle and upper class, but they are just not cracked down on as hard...and are harder to catch.