I agree with this post, our government has no idea what they are doing when it comes to the war on drugs. The original post points out the amount of money that is wasted on this so called war. For example, recently a home was raided with a warrant based off of helicopter photos of some “shrubs” that were believed to be marijuana plants. The time, money, and effort that the narcotics team used to bust this “grow house” where there was not actually any marijuana testifies to the case that the government is miserably failing at the war on drugs. When looked at logically first of all how would a judge agree to a warrant based off of images that are not clearly marijuana plants? Second, why are these drug squads worried about marijuana of all drugs? Finally, the drug cops true intentions could be questioned since it is not uncommon for them to be corrupt and rob them while they bust them. The simple fact that 16 states have decriminalized marijuana and made it possible to purchase purely for medical purposes, while on the national level it is still considered just as bad as heroine or cocaine, should be enough to discredit our government’s policy on drugs.
That is one small issue concerning marijuana when we have way worse substances flooding the nation. If you were to research other foreign drug policies, mainly European ones, it is easy to see the difference immediately. Some of these differences are lower crime rates and overall less harm to the society since the government is regulating the drugs and ensuring clean equipment and environments for the drug users among their communities. Our policy as the original post points out is to incarcerate them until they are rehabilitated which generally does not work as seen since it is a viscous cycle in which the government really does no such rehabilitation or the cycle would not exist. The $15 billion dollars spent incarcerating drug offenders and raiding innocent people’s homes should be used to actually rehabilitate the true drug addicts who need help not John Doe who has had 8 surgeries and wants to smoke a joint over taking terrible pharmaceuticals.
That is one small issue concerning marijuana when we have way worse substances flooding the nation. If you were to research other foreign drug policies, mainly European ones, it is easy to see the difference immediately. Some of these differences are lower crime rates and overall less harm to the society since the government is regulating the drugs and ensuring clean equipment and environments for the drug users among their communities. Our policy as the original post points out is to incarcerate them until they are rehabilitated which generally does not work as seen since it is a viscous cycle in which the government really does no such rehabilitation or the cycle would not exist. The $15 billion dollars spent incarcerating drug offenders and raiding innocent people’s homes should be used to actually rehabilitate the true drug addicts who need help not John Doe who has had 8 surgeries and wants to smoke a joint over taking terrible pharmaceuticals.
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