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The War on Drugs was literally designed to create more criminals -- and only in that has it been successful.
by pstuart 6y ago
The War on Drugs was literally designed to create more criminals -- and only in that has it been successful.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoNo, it was designed to reduce crime and drug availability. Nobody would design a program with the goal of creating more crime.
- pstuart 6y agoThere's plenty of evidence out there that refutes your assumption (happy to provide it if you're interested). It's not that they wanted more crime -- they wanted criminalized behavior to wield as a weapon against people of color (and hippies, in Nixon's case). If it was ever about reducing harm from drugs there's plenty of better ways to do that, don't you think?