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Nearly all of them? This problem is not caused by some weird, out of line policy of the USA. Basically nowhere wants hard drugs on the streets. And some places
by thu2111 5y ago
Nearly all of them? This problem is not caused by some weird, out of line policy of the USA. Basically nowhere wants hard drugs on the streets. And some places that experimented with legalisation rolled it back or changed their approach. Where I live there are still quite a few places with junkie lights, remnants of a hands off approach some decades ago. It led to a central public park becoming completely taken over and turned into a shanty town by addicts. Eventually the approach changed to one of less tolerance, the addicts were moved into rehab or died, and the shanty town was forcibly cleared by police.
I see people on this thread acting as if Mexico's inability to control cartels is a problem exclusively created by America. But those cartels exist elsewhere and America is not the only market for illegal drugs. The issue is wider than that.
- brodo 5y agoThe US is the leading force in the war on drug users since the International Opium Convention in 1912. Others are complicit, but the US is the main force behind it. You mentioned that some countries legalized drugs and them rolled back. Can you give examples?
- thu2111 5y agoI said decriminalized, rather than legalized. I was thinking of Switzerland and Spitzplatz in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platzspitz_park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platzspitz_park
- atatatat 5y agoYou have no knowledge of our intelligence agencies black budgets.