"The war on drugs," said Howard Wooldridge, one of the founders of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition at www.leap.cc. "How is that working for us in America? Is it reducing crime? Is it reducing rates of death and disease? Is it effective in keeping drugs and drug dealers away from our children? Is it making America safer and more prosperous? As my profession chases drugs, what are we missing? These are important questions as this prohibition approach costs us taxpayers some 70 billion dollars this year."
Wooldridge said, "As a police officer, I fought on the side of the 'good guys' for 18 years in the "War on Drugs," giving me ample actual experience in the trenches. After much time, consternation and out-and-out frustration in not achieving a single, stated goal in the long term, I came to the conclusion that we must be doing something wrong. It seemed no matter how many dealers we took off the streets, new ones immediately popped up to take their places. The prices for drugs kept falling, indicating an oversupply. The purity became better; heroin increased from 3.6 percent to near 50 percent purity between 1980 and 2007. The prison population kept increasing until over 70 percent of all inmates are there on some drug-related charge. The only thing we have to show for this terrible policy is that today after 36 years and a trillion tax dollars spent, illegal drugs are cheaper, stronger and very easy for our kids to buy."
In those 18 years, I listened to my brother Howard's frustrations each time we sat down for dinner. He bemoaned the senselessness of the drug war. The people within the department now work it to keep their jobs and nothing else. The "War on Drugs" exists to exist.
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The Farce Of The War On Drugs
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Coconut is the accepted slang for the crack addict d'jour.
Although it may not be widely known, crack cocaine is the drug of choice for many of the homeless.
We here on Vive le Canada seldom have lively exchanges about the hard drug problem that exists in this country and we should
Speaking as a man who had friends back in the mid fifties who were wired to heroin and knowing something of that life I can tell you that Junkies, under the system I grew up in had to either sell drugs of criminalise them selves further by theft to support their habit.
Last Sunday there was a show on Global TV about the failure of the War on Drugs
I may have submitted it for publication I forget now,
a couple of points of interest. approx 1.7% of the population are wired to Junk or Coke and may be pills. That figure has held steady from my time as a youth to my senior years. The other point was that id a bucket of heroin and a bucket of Cocaine were place on a street corner the majority would pas it by
They are simply not interested in drugs, for any reason.
I believe that addiction is a health problem not a criminal problem and there are many who share the same view.
Marijuana should be a cottage industry along the lines of the Okanogan Valley Vintners.
I am NOT in favour of high taxation on our well known B.C. Bud, but the 7 BILLION dollar industry obviously has many customers here in BC and across Canada
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp
Coconut is the accepted slang for the crack addict d'jour.
Although it may not be widely known, crack cocaine is the drug of choice for many of the homeless.
We here on Vive le Canada seldom have lively exchanges about the hard drug problem that exists in this country and we should
Speaking as a man who had friends back in the mid fifties who were wired to heroin and knowing something of that life I can tell you that Junkies, under the system I grew up in had to either sell drugs of criminalise them selves further by theft to support their habit.
Last Sunday there was a show on Global TV about the failure of the War on Drugs
I may have submitted it for publication I forget now,
a couple of points of interest. approx 1.7% of the population are wired to Junk or Coke and may be pills. That figure has held steady from my time as a youth to my senior years. The other point was that id a bucket of heroin and a bucket of Cocaine were place on a street corner the majority would pas it by
They are simply not interested in drugs, for any reason.
I believe that addiction is a health problem not a criminal problem and there are many who share the same view.
Marijuana should be a cottage industry along the lines of the Okanogan Valley Vintners.
I am NOT in favour of high taxation on our well known B.C. Bud, but the 7 BILLION dollar industry obviously has many customers here in BC and across Canada
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp
really tired of all the wars on everything, because clearly war on anything just
doesn't seem to work; in the sense that it doesn't get the results the majority of
people expect. It does create jobs for the warriors however!
As we highlight these things they seem to grow. I believe you
may have said this elsewhere Dio and I do believe it is true, 'what we are
spending our energy on, our money on, and our attention on, is what we end up
with' So if our intention is to create healthy citizens, why not declare the
mission, creating healhty, thriving communities, rather than a war on
something...?
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"aaaah and the whisper of thousands of tiny voices became a mighty deafening roar and they called it 'freedom'!"' Canadians Acting Humanely at home & everywhere
I'm starting a war on my bank balance LOL
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp
declare the mission, creating healhty, thriving
communities, rather than a war on something...?"
Problem is this isn't the Government's intention at all.
The masses are kept doped up so that they can keep
getting duped. How a certain country can consider itself
"civilized" with a barbaric death penalty law and extreme
drug sentences is beyond me.
As we have seen, "wars" translate into big bucks for the
fortunate few and also increase the income gap
between the rich and poor. Politicians don't have the
balls, nor the incentive and are too inhumane to do the
right thing when it comes to these matters.
but nothing has changed...I think most of us realize this situation that is <br />
discussed in the article, but nice to see it in print!<br />
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If prescription drugs are so good, where are all the healthy drug takers?<br />
<a href="http://www.newstarget.com/001352.html">http://www.newstarget.com/001352.html</a><p>---<br>"aaaah and the whisper of thousands of tiny voices became a mighty deafening roar and they called it 'freedom'!"' Canadians Acting Humanely at home & everywhere
At one level I “get’ , actually “got” Is the correct description of understanding the importance of the linguistic factor in creating reality.
By using language in a certain way, positive or negative reality is created and when a critical mass, as in the Hundredth Monkey * comes into play the critical mass causes a new paradigm to take hold.
Politicians , lawyers, judges captains of industry have known this in North American with the help ( manipulation, opinion shapers … choose the word of your choice) of Edward Bernays, Ivy Lee, Strauss and their followers.
More recently Dawkins put forth the concept of Memes or mind virii.
“Dawkins gave as examples of memes: tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots, or of building arches. A meme, he said, propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene. Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.” From wiki
People who through whatever series of events become enlightened beyond the status quo only recognise from their enlightened perspective that words like “war, fight, etc” set a path for the continuation of a meme to be established. With the result that those who lack the enlightenment of the advanced and at that point communication becomes fracture , if not broken.
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"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp