HappySqurriel said:
If the United States put its resources that are being spent on the war on drugs towards monitoring their ports and borders, and tracking down drug labs, it would likely result in fewer drugs hitting the street and forcing them to sell them at a higher price; resulting in lower over-all addiction and usage rates. Basically, for the police to recover 10kg of drugs through street level arrests they (probably) have to make hundreds of arrests over several weeks/months; but it is likely that a greater amount is seized on the border or at manufacturing sites from a single arrest. They are trying to collect grains of sand after they have been blown away by the wind ... |
But then people would have nothing to fear when buying drugs uf the police are not going after end users and dealers. Most likely people would just get better at hiding munufacture and import of drugs while enjoying the ruduced pressure elsewhere.
In my opinion we should devote 100% of our resources in the war on drugs to treating people rather than locking them up especially for drugs such a marijuana.
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