The War on Drugs is a Failure in Every Country

[Bullet1987]

Run time: 10:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aX7IJAPdNU   Posted on YouTube: November 24, 2010 By YouTube Member: HOSSERLEGALIZE420 Views on YouTube: 26   Posted on DU: November 24, 2010 By DU Member: Bullet1987 Views on DU: 825

 
Great interview!

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Which raises the questions

Why do they continue to fight it?

and

Why did everyone, the world over, buy into such crap in the first place?

[immoderate]

2. Most people believe in stupid shit. Follow the money.

--imm

[FiveGoodMen]

7. Follow the money to the instigators, yes

But shouldn't a higher percentage of the public all over the world be just a little smarter and saner than to jump on the bandwagon?

[immoderate]

9. I don't think "the public" is responsible.

They are guilty of listening to those in authority. That's where the stupid shit comes from.

--imm

[FiveGoodMen]

10. If the public blindly listens to authority, then you don't really have democracy

[immoderate]

12. Exactly. Brings us back to "people believe stupid shit."

In reality, there are some simple principles at work. People believe what their elders tell them instinctively, especially at a young age. And most people do not have the time or background to fully understand the issues that affect their lives. They may vest their decisions in a party, or a brand name, or a guru. But that's how people roll.

--imm

[ooglymoogly]

8. Authoritarian power and profit.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. Explains why the bosses do it

Doesn't explain why Joe Sixpack wants pot-smokers arrested.

[ooglymoogly]

15. Joe Sixpack believes the propaganda

Beginning with Maryjane will make you pregnant, will make you a serial killer, will make you insane, is dangerous to your health, lies add infinitum.

[reggie the dog]

3. when i moved to france7.5 years ago

leagalization of grass was a fringe issue, now grass and all drug legalization is a respectable debate, this spring it wasnt the case, but in the past 6 months there has been a huge change and i think that prop 19 had a lot to do with it as that was in the news a lot, combined with a study of portugal's legalization that was in nouvel observateur this summer....... in a few years my garden will be legal...

[Bullet1987]

5. Hopefully in a few years I'll have a garden of my own...

[reggie the dog]

6. just do it illegally

the first couple of years you hardly get any harvest at all as you learn how to grow the stuff, where not to plant it (thieves, floods, animals eating plants). a flood took all but one of my plants this year, worst flood in over 200 years..... gonna try next year just the same, one year it will be legal and out on the balcony or in the yard if i have one by then.

[wildbilln864]

4. k & r #11. nt

[lefthook]

13. Am I stoned?

or does this guy make sense.

[JohnyCanuck]

14. Drug war is being lost? Obviously then we have to throw more money at it. n/t

[Bullet1987]

16. That's the stupidity of it...it's shockingly bad policy and governing

to continue to throw money into a system so big a failure. But that's what happens when Machiavellian politics dominates your nation's philosophy of governance.