HappySqurriel on 22 December 2012
| SamuelRSmith said: The number 1 problem is the War on Drugs. I'd wager that poverty is the number 2 issue (and heavily tied in with the WoD) |
The problem isn't the war on drugs, it is how the war on drugs is fought ...
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 ...
