Surprise! Anti-Meth Laws Have Had Unintended Consequences

Shockingly(or not), Anti-Meth Laws Have Had Unintended Consequences

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Legalize Marijuana File: US War On Drugs Has Met None Of Its Goals

US War On Drugs Has Met None Of Its Goals: AP Impact



Surprise! The "War On Drugs(users)" has wasted lives, money and time, with little positive to show for it.

"Using Freedom of Information Act requests, archival records, federal budgets and dozens of interviews with leaders and analysts, the AP tracked where that money went, and found that the United States repeatedly increased budgets for programs that did little to stop the flow of drugs. In 40 years, taxpayers spent more than:

- $20 billion to fight the drug gangs in their home countries. In Colombia, for example, the United States spent more than $6 billion, while coca cultivation increased and trafficking moved to Mexico - and the violence along with it.

- $33 billion in marketing "Just Say No"-style messages to America's youth and other prevention programs. High school students report the same rates of illegal drug use as they did in 1970, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drug overdoses have "risen steadily" since the early 1970s to more than 20,000 last year.

- $49 billion for law enforcement along America's borders to cut off the flow of illegal drugs. This year, 25 million Americans will snort, swallow, inject and smoke illicit drugs, about 10 million more than in 1970, with the bulk of those drugs imported from Mexico.

- $121 billion to arrest more than 37 million nonviolent drug offenders, about 10 million of them for possession of marijuana. Studies show that jail time tends to increase drug abuse.

- $450 billion to lock those people up in federal prisons alone. Last year, half of all federal prisoners in the U.S. were serving sentences for drug offenses."

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This Just In: DEA Recruiting Lil Wayne

DEA Recruits Lil Wayne To Use Up All Drugs In Mexico














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Afghanistan: America's Eternal "War On Drugs" Meets It's Eternal Occupation

With our killer drones and our DEA we'll have their hearts and minds in no time...well, maybe a few decades anyway. Let's ask Russia again how this all worked out for them.

DEA agents among 14 Americans dead in Afghanistan

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Botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids

"If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern."
—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.












An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids."
--by Radley Balko.

"..The militarization of our police forces, with SWAT units armed with weapons designed for warfare against foreign enemies, has been spreading from the inner city to the suburbs, and from small towns to farm country.
All across America, local police units are arming and training officers to bust down doors, destroy personal property and mercilessly manhandle all living creatures in their path. Dogs, children and even elderly women have been shot by rampaging SWAT teams, usually in the hunt for trivial amounts of drug contraband.."

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