Bush's war on drug is Pot even though 58% Cops says Meth is worse

[LynneSin]

Great article in Newsweek this week about the exploding Meth war. But what really got me all up in a gander was a few things.

Cops nationwide rank methamphetamine the No. 1 drug they battle today: in a survey of 500 law-enforcement agencies in 45 states released last month by the National Association of Counties, 58 percent said meth is their biggest drug problem, compared with only 19 percent for cocaine, 17 percent for pot and 3 percent for heroin

So, knowing that the cops think Meth is a problem we need to focus on what's Georgie's solution?....

And, amid the wreckage, a pressing political debate: are we fighting the wrong drug war? The Bush administration has made marijuana the major focus of its anti-drug efforts, both because there are so many users (an estimated 15 million Americans) and because it considers pot a "gateway" to the use of harder substances

Read more of the article here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8770112/site/newsweek/

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. They are in the pocket of the pharma industry

which is dead set against medical maryjane.

It gets easier and easier to see through McChimp's agenda. :)

[Pushed To The Left]

13. I was thinking the same thing

when I saw the topic!

[wli]

18. big pharma's a minor player if they're involved at all

The way this works is:

1. prison profiteers soak up money per-prisoner (slave labor and govt. funds)
2. corrupt govt. legislates to eliminate drug competitors by force of arms
3. drug sales are used to fund black ops for further profit (e.g. Latin American coup d'etats, death squads, etc.)

[tridim]

2. 17 percent of cops think Pot is the biggest drug problem?

That can't be right can it? Even the stupidest cop in world wouldn't believe that.

[LynneSin]

5. I can't believe it's higher than herion

that even shocked me. But I figured those are probably the 17% that buy the crap that the Bush administration is telling them.

[madrchsod]

3. ohhhh....the irony of his statement...

it`s true just look at him--pot, booze, and coke. i guess george knows what he is talking about!

[sweetheart]

4. Bush is just a hack

Who has nothing better to do than waste taxpayer money on his criminal
ventures, killing people, tossing innocent civilians in prison and
destroying the constitution.

This is typically in-character, that what can be said. The entire
war on drugs users is a farce. Drugs are cheaper and more widely used
than ever before in history. The war has accomplished nothing at all,
and bush's job is to pretend the war still works for a coupla more
years whilst him and his buddies in the prison-industrial complex
fleece the taxpayers of a few more billions to rape and destroy their
own kids.

It is so cynical, that there is not a drop of goodwill left. The
police exist to destroy citizen rights. Citziens exist to pay for
the police, and government exists to repress the citizens. Isn't
that what the declaration of independence set about to fix in the
first place?

[Mythsaje]

9. Of course the War On Drugs

has accomplished something...exactly what they wanted it to accomplish. It made making war against the civilian population of this country something to be applauded.

[pinto]

6. It's a good article. Cops see the fallout from meth everyday. Add some ER

docs assessments and you have a pretty convincing case, imo.

[Mythsaje]

7. Of course meth is worse...

and any cops who say otherwise are either, stupid, stoned, or corrupt.

[Wapsie B]

8. There's also this garbage about weed being a gateway drug.

That's been beat to death for so long.

[Mythsaje]

10. Like I tell people sometimes...

POT isn't the gateway drug.

Sugar is.

That's the first "high" a lot of kids experience.

[lvx35]

11. The gateway drug to meth is alchohol

In the highly affected rural areas, people get into meth through seedy bars, not through pot. Pot is the hippy drug, and most geebers are not hippies, they are hicks, or poor rural people.

[Union Thug]

15. Gateway drug? BULLSH**

The ONLY reason it could be remotely considered a gateway is, in fact, due to the gatekeepers that most are forced to deal with.

Legalize pot, put it in the liquor store and in your backyard gardens and that gateway goes away.

Gateway drug is such bullshit anyway. As if there's some door you walkthrough into the world of smack and meth. People who come up with this crap obviously never partook of the experimentation. I remember being lectured by some dimwitted counselor/psych that I got into an argument with who never tried pot, but was convinced its use led to spousal abuse. Geez, alchohol is legal, so its use must not have any part in that equation.... oh man..I get SOOO WORKED UP over this issue...

POT is less harmful than either cigarettes or alcohol..and yet it's illegal.. These people are such hypocrites.

[Must_B_Free]

12. Hawaii's Ice epidemic started after Operation Green Harvest

cut down all the pakalolo.

Free pakalolo = no crystal meth problem

[G_j]

14. of course

pot smokers are often artists, poets and people who tend to prefer nonviolent methods of problem solving.
These dangerous people would rather listen to music than start a war. It is war on a segment of the population, just as the crack laws are aimed at blacks.

[Union Thug]

16. THANK YOU!

You nailed it. I ask people..ever been to a concert where everyone is floating on a cloud of pot smoke? Now contrast that to one where alcohol is being injested.

Two different worlds entirely.

[eeyore]

17. My wife works with cops and they say the same thing.

The main reason that cops are against pot is that it is illegal, thus they must fight it. They are against people smoking pot, but they are also by and large anti-alcohol.

Meth, however, scares the hell out of them. The majority of theft and domestic disturbance calls in Portland are a result of meth. Meth users are desperate and have super human strength. They have absolutely no sense of good judgement left.

My very own brother was on a meth jag and stole checks from our parents while they were out of town. I assume he wanted more meth. He wrote them to himself and cashed them to the tune of about $5000. He is an incredibly book-smart guy, but his common sense went out the window. He truly thought he wouldn't get caught or just plain didn't care.

I've never seen anyone get really stoned and have the motivation to steal anything except maybe a cookie or a bag of chips.