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The DEA needs to go bye bye, and be replaced by the DRA, Drug Rehabilitation Agency. While I respect the risks operational agents take against crime syndicates
by poof131 10y ago
The DEA needs to go bye bye, and be replaced by the DRA, Drug Rehabilitation Agency. While I respect the risks operational agents take against crime syndicates, the war on drugs is a disaster. Even the government’s own RAND corporation concluded enforcement is far worse than rehabilitation, with rehab being 7 times more effective than policing, 400 times more effective then border interdiction, and 800 times more effective than actions in source countries.[1] Not to mention the privacy violations it’s enabled. If the goal is to reduce drug use, the US policies are stupid. If the goal is for politicians to sound tough and maintain a never ending drug war so they can keep sounding tough, then it’s a success.
And letting the DEA decide what is Schedule 1 is like letting the fox guard the hen house. I’ve never heard of a government agency voluntarily reducing its scope and budget. Just more of our leadership deferring responsibility to so called “experts” with a vested interest. A pretty rampant phenomenon these days ranging from the banks to the military.
[1] http://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/RRR-spring95-crime/treatment.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/periodicals/rand-review/issues/RRR-...
- ZoF 10y agoby by => bye bye
- gaur 10y ago> If the goal is for politicians to sound tough and maintain a never ending drug war so they can keep sounding tough, then it’s a success. Part of their goal is also to provide their cronies in the prison-industrial complex with a steady supply of victims.
- jdhawk 10y agoAnd bolster the military industrial complex a bit more. It is a war, afterall.
- cmurf 10y agoPart of their goal is also to provide a quasi-monopoly to the pharmaceutical-industrial complex with a steady supply of victims. (Yes fine, some of the drugs are quite remarkable, but $1000 per pill per day x 12+ weeks, please GFY.) http://www.healthline.com/health/hepatitis-c-treatment-cost#4 http://www.healthline.com/health/hepatitis-c-treatment-cost#...
- themartorana 10y agoGood God, 7x, 400x, and 800x! How is continued marching down a ruinous path and destroying lives in the wake not entirely criminal, if not a massive human rights violation?
- danharaj 10y agoBecause the people who enforce criminality and enforce human rights are the ones doing it.
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agobecause all of you potheads are too stoned to get off your asses and kill the people who require killing. you're all completely pathetic.
- coldtea 10y agoBecause human rights is what the powerful call that.
- rhizome 10y agoIt's not ruinious for them.
- brandon272 10y agoI find it beyond irritating when you (seem to?) have widespread agreement that "the war on drugs is a failure" and that giving people ruinous criminal records for victimless drug crimes is not only counterproductive but probably morally reprehensible... yet the war marches on? When is this going to end?
- WalterBright 10y agoIt's not just drugs, quite a bit of government law and regulation is based on wishful thinking and determined denial of human nature.