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"Think of the children" is a plea to emotion in an argument. A plea is made to emotion often times when the plea is a logical fallacy. It makes sense as it was used by the pro drug war police chiefs to make an emotional plea to continue a failed expensive war that has ruined and taken thousands of lives. So they are trying to use emotion to argue a position that is no longer logical.
Cost of drug war in the US $15 billion > source <
Americans spend approximately $65 billion>source < or "100.4" Billion >[URL="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/wausid_report_final_1.pdf"] source[/URL] < per year on illegal drugs.
"Last year, $8.5 billion worth of narcotic painkillers were sold in the United States, according to the prescription-tracking company IMS Health. Enough of the drugs were prescribed last year to "medicate every American adult around the clock for a month," the CDC said." > source <
So we are spending billions to fail and not profiting on or collecting taxes on possibly hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Ruining families and peoples lives, Making criminals rich, losing out on needed revenue, and not making a shit of difference. It is way beyond time to end this pathetic drug war.
Cost of drug war in the US $15 billion > source <
Americans spend approximately $65 billion>source < or "100.4" Billion >[URL="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/wausid_report_final_1.pdf"] source[/URL] < per year on illegal drugs.
"Last year, $8.5 billion worth of narcotic painkillers were sold in the United States, according to the prescription-tracking company IMS Health. Enough of the drugs were prescribed last year to "medicate every American adult around the clock for a month," the CDC said." > source <
So we are spending billions to fail and not profiting on or collecting taxes on possibly hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Ruining families and peoples lives, Making criminals rich, losing out on needed revenue, and not making a shit of difference. It is way beyond time to end this pathetic drug war.
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