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>>I suppose what I'm saying is that while I understand the need or desire to regulate powerful drugs I dont. We have now almost 60 years of drug prohibition,
by phpisthebest 4y ago
>>I suppose what I'm saying is that while I understand the need or desire to regulate powerful drugs
I dont. We have now almost 60 years of drug prohibition, and increasing levels of criminality of abuse of drugs with nothing really to show for it except billions, or trillions in wasted resources, the millions of destroyed lives with little or no evidence that any of the criminalization has done anything to curb abuse of drugs
If nothing else is clear, one thing for sure is.. the DEA is the most ineffective federal agency ever created bar none.
>>I fear further zealous overreach by the DEA et al that has already made it difficult for responsible users to access important medications.
It absolutely has, and likely has increased overdose's and death at the same time.
- HybridCurve 4y agoNot just ineffective, incompetent. They've ignored pursuing policies that focus across the spectrum of illicit drug use and instead implement hamfisted solutions to problems only when they've grown so bad that legislators have to intervene. Often thier approach, purely from a law enforcement perspective, is interdiction and supression. To them drug abuse is a criminal problem which can only be solved by aggressive policing, confiscations, and arrests. Now I hear that dealers in the US are cutting opioids sold to PWID with Xylazine which is highly destructive to tissue. There is no healthcare system to speak of available to the addicts so they don't end up in healthcare until their wounds have become gangrenous. It's no wonder an enforcement agency fails in this area because their mission is not to provide care and rehabilitation to criminals. Drug trafficking is supply and demand, maybe they should realize focusing on only half the problem isn't going to be a comprehensive solution.