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I'm confused lately by articles like this and the comments on them. Is the war on drugs OK now again? There should be more people in prison for selling drugs n

I'm confused lately by articles like this and the comments on them. Is the war on drugs OK now again? There should be more people in prison for selling drugs now instead of less? Or is it OK to sell addictive drugs but only if you don't get rich doing it? What's the new conventional wisdom?

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> Is the war on drugs OK now again? There should be more people in prison for selling drugs now instead of less? You don’t see shades of grey between years in prison for marijuana possession and no jail time for causing a nationwide opioid epidemic?
- rufus_foreman 5y ago
  Very few people are going to prison for possession. At the federal level, virtually all of the people in prison for drug offenses are traffickers. That's been the war on drugs, busting small time traffickers to go after big time traffickers. Is that cool now again?
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otabdeveloper4 5y ago
> Is the war on drugs OK now again? It was always OK. > What's the new conventional wisdom? You're allowed to have your own opinion on issues. You don't have to follow the herd, trust me.
simonswords82 5y ago
I don't see the connection between the war on drugs and big pharma pushing drugs. I think you're looking for an angle on this topic that does not exist. The war on drugs and big pharma murdering people by selling addictive drugs are not related.
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morpheos137 5y ago
Marijuana is cool, opium is evil. That's what the media says anyway.
mbrodersen 5y ago
What do you mean? It has always been OK. It is a massive jobs creation program that benefit a number of enforcement agencies, law enforcement companies and private prisons, while destroying underprivileged poor communities (by primarily targeting those communities). It is as American as Apple Pie. Up there with spending 20 years fighting and loosing a war that (again) only benefitted private companies and politicians who ended up working for those companies as a reward for giving large contracts to those companies. It is the American way. What’s not to like?

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> Is the war on drugs OK now again? There should be more people in prison for selling drugs now instead of less? You don’t see shades of grey between years in prison for marijuana possession and no jail time for causing a nationwide opioid epidemic?

rufus_foreman 5y ago
Very few people are going to prison for possession. At the federal level, virtually all of the people in prison for drug offenses are traffickers. That's been the war on drugs, busting small time traffickers to go after big time traffickers. Is that cool now again?

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otabdeveloper4 5y ago

> Is the war on drugs OK now again? It was always OK. > What's the new conventional wisdom? You're allowed to have your own opinion on issues. You don't have to follow the herd, trust me.

simonswords82 5y ago

I don't see the connection between the war on drugs and big pharma pushing drugs. I think you're looking for an angle on this topic that does not exist. The war on drugs and big pharma murdering people by selling addictive drugs are not related.

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morpheos137 5y ago

Marijuana is cool, opium is evil. That's what the media says anyway.

mbrodersen 5y ago

What do you mean? It has always been OK. It is a massive jobs creation program that benefit a number of enforcement agencies, law enforcement companies and private prisons, while destroying underprivileged poor communities (by primarily targeting those communities). It is as American as Apple Pie. Up there with spending 20 years fighting and loosing a war that (again) only benefitted private companies and politicians who ended up working for those companies as a reward for giving large contracts to those companies. It is the American way. What’s not to like?