The "war on drugs" is a dismal failure. One of the evil-empire building destructive actions that President Nixon started. It has resulted in funding one of the largest criminal enterprises ever. It has resulted in millions of addicts and a failed country in Afghanistan, funding endless wars and horrific suffering. "Harm reduction" means alternative options …
Category: War on Drugs
The War on Drugs
Of course legalising does not "fix the drug problem" in the same way that making laws does not fix traffic jams. But leaving the laws as they are, continuing this unproductive, ineffective and certainly destructive "war on drugs" lacks political intelligence. The point is that people are dying because of the laws. Addiction is a …
P – the disease we can not talk about
P - the drug - its use and manufacture is criminal in most democracies as it should be. The Western meme, “The War on Drugs” is a poor model of how to combat what is a contagion of deliberate disease that quickly spirals into addiction. Catching it early is not as good as prevention but …