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The War On Drugs = Fail
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skyguy
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Aug 14, 2016 - 8:38am |
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Proclivities wrote:
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Aug 14, 2016 - 7:01am |
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Misdemeanor drug convictions can still ruin young people's present and cripple their future.
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miamizsun
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Aug 10, 2016 - 5:41am |
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Every December 5th, American beer, wine, and spirit enthusiasts celebrate Repeal Day. It was on this day in 1933 that the United States officially passed the 21st Amendment, effectively ending the failed “noble experiment” known as Prohibition. This was not only a good day for liberty and libations; it also marked the end of a violent era in American history. The transport and sale of illicit booze became a prolific criminal enterprise backed by well-armed, violent gangs. The result: a homicide rate in the United States that steadily climbed between 1920 and 1933. In addition, the rise of “victimless crimes”—namely, consumption or possession of alcohol—added to the already overburdened judicial system. Furthermore, alcohol consumption—what Prohibition laws sought to minimize—actually increased nearly 70 percent. To call Prohibition a failure would be an understatement. Repealing Prohibition destroyed the monopoly on alcohol maintained by organized crime. Disempowering the black market produced a noticeable decline in the homicide rate. In fact, homicides continued to diminish each year for eleven years straight.
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Steely_D
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FTA: Would it ever make sense to jail a chain-smoker for smoking or an alcoholic for touching drink? On the basis that the answer is no, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is urging the government to decriminalise the personal possession and use of all illegal drugs.
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Proclivities
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R_P
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Mar 23, 2016 - 8:47pm |
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Nixon Policy Advisor Admits He Invented War On Drugs to Suppress 'Anti-War Left and Black People'Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen: At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” I must have looked shocked. Ehrlichman just shrugged. Then he looked at his watch, handed me a signed copy of his steamy spy novel, The Company, and led me to the door. (...)
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R_P
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'Staggering corruption': 46 correctional officers charged in years-long drug trafficking sting(...) Among those arrested were five members of an elite squad aimed at busting up drug dealing in prison, called the Cobra unit. Also rounded up in the bust were two civilians and one inmate. The probe found that prison guards and staff were smuggling contraband such as liquor, tobacco and cell phones into the cell blocks for money. Inmates used the illegal cell phones to commit wire fraud, money laundering and identify theft. Officers are also charged with using their badges to facilitate drug deals on either side of the prison wall. The trafficking is said to include multiple kilos of cocaine and meth in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribe money. (...)
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 3, 2015 - 7:25am |
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ajlept
Location: Athens, GA Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 10:45pm |
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haresfur wrote: Yeah but not for everyone. You'll only be allowed to do drugs if you have your artistic license.
Perform for the President at the Kennedy Center and see what's waiting for you back stage.
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haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 10:35pm |
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ajlept wrote:When alcohol was taken away from the criminals in gov't in the '30's, they needed drugs to take it's place. They recruited the gullible churches to push the "moral" issue and brainwash their flock into believing the evils of such temptations that God put on this earth to test us. Naturally, this peaked the curiosity of many and the higher (no pun intended) demand created an underground market for the pushers in gov't to use and enslave their constituents, whether by imprisonment or addiction. Drugs have given us some of the greatest creative geniuses in history like Poe, Lennon, and too many others to think of....
There's a subject....famous people who've been creatively influenced by drugs?
Yeah but not for everyone. You'll only be allowed to do drugs if you have your artistic license.
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ajlept
Location: Athens, GA Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 10:27pm |
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When alcohol was taken away from the criminals in gov't in the '30's, they needed drugs to take it's place. They recruited the gullible churches to push the "moral" issue and brainwash their flock into believing the evils of such temptations that God put on this earth to test us. Naturally, this peaked the curiosity of many and the higher (no pun intended) demand created an underground market for the pushers in gov't to use and enslave their constituents, whether by imprisonment or addiction. Drugs have given us some of the greatest creative geniuses in history like Poe, Lennon, and too many others to think of....
There's a subject....famous people who've been creatively influenced by drugs?
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Nov 9, 2015 - 6:20pm |
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oldviolin wrote: I can see that...man...
dude.
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 6:06pm |
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Red_Dragon wrote: cultural appropriation, man
I can see that...man...
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Nov 9, 2015 - 6:05pm |
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oldviolin wrote: Your lack of plastic nose disturbs me.
cultural appropriation, man
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oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 5:53pm |
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Red_Dragon wrote: brutal
Your lack of plastic nose disturbs me.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Nov 9, 2015 - 5:49pm |
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FourFortyEight wrote: ...as The Eagles began to play.
brutal
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FourFortyEight
Location: The Dirty South Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 4:41pm |
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islander wrote: While sitting in a car being transported by a train that is going over a cliff!
...as The Eagles began to play.
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 12:24pm |
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sirdroseph wrote:Ahhh the trifecta! While sitting in a car being transported by a train that is going over a cliff!
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sirdroseph
Location: Not here, I tell you wat Gender:
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Nov 9, 2015 - 11:46am |
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bokey wrote: What's the accident rate with guns while drunk and/or on drugs?
Ahhh the trifecta!
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bokey
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Nov 9, 2015 - 11:41am |
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sirdroseph wrote: What's the accident rate with guns while drunk and/or on drugs?
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