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More consenting adults being arrested for consenting. More taxpayer dollars being spent on imprisonment and enforcement than less expensive treatment, not to me
by lectrick 13y ago
More consenting adults being arrested for consenting. More taxpayer dollars being spent on imprisonment and enforcement than less expensive treatment, not to mention the opportunity cost of lost profits from taxation.
When are we going to realize that the drug war for most drugs is fucking bullshit?
DPR may have gone away but if the law doesn't change eventually, the nerds WILL figure this problem out. You say the weakness this time was the postal system? Well here comes APOD, Anonymous Physical Object Delivery https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/APOD_PETS09.pdf https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/APOD_PETS09.pdf
And lest we forget, here's a statement from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Commission_on_Drug_Policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Commission_on_Drug_Polic... :
In June 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a critical report on the War on Drugs, declaring "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and years after President Nixon launched the US government's war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed."
- CrankyPants 13y agoYou do realize he (allegedly) paid to have someone killed, right?
- thret 13y agoThat was his point, the war on drugs creates violence and is not a deterrence.
- al1x 13y agoHow does the war on drugs have anything to do with DPR hiring a hit on the hacker who broke into his website and threatened to dump his user database, an act that would presumably shake customer confidence and lose him business?
- lectrick 13y agoProhibition also created a significant amount of violence... which has all but mysteriously disappeared. Eliminate the illegality and you eliminate the incentive for "hits" to prevent jail time or extortion.
- CrankyPants 13y agoThis seems to be his point: > More consenting adults being arrested for consenting. The "consenting adults" argument is tough to make when hits are being put out.
- lectrick 13y agoProhibition also created a significant amount of violence... which has all but mysteriously disappeared. Eliminate the illegality and you eliminate the incentive for "hits" to prevent jail time or extortion.
- CrankyPants 13y agoOrganized crime has anything but "all but mysteriously disappeared". Not sure what your point is.
- lectrick 13y agoIf drugs were legal, there would be no need to kill anyone for fear of being revealed or extorted. Prohibition also created a significant amount of violence... which has all but mysteriously disappeared. I wonder why. Did people magically become less evil? I think not. I think a fundamental flaw in the system was addressed properly back then, and certain perverse incentives were eliminated. Eliminate the illegality and you eliminate the incentive for "hits" to prevent jail time or extortion.