Illegal Drug Use Cost U.S. $193 Billion in 2007, Study Says

[Jellybelly92]

Then the ATF will give some more guns to the cartels... "To track them"

 

[TheLostBoys]

No matter who becomes president, they have to kiss the feet of the "elitist" w/o question the president is a puppet. As far as Ron Paul ever becoming president, it will never happen & if he was elected by some miracle, his views on drugs would be forcibly changed.

Only way to beat these guys at their game is to actually have millions of americans protest in the street as they did in the 60's & as they do in other countries as they try to overthrow their government.

Im not saying overthrow our government but those protests, if violent, is the only way this country will ever change imo.

 

[bama420]

The FDA is the problem, how many things do you see advertised as "not approved by FDA" and they are still sold. Ummm, isn't that what where are there for is to provide a service to consumers to not be sold bullshit? What does legalizing it do, we (potheads) give the gov't more money to do whatever they feel is necessary and not tell anyone how they spent it. OK lets tax it. Will it be like alcohol? The alcohol tax goes to paving roads so we can drive drunk on them after a long night and get pulled over.... Never LET THEM CONTROL POT!!!! Yea lets also put a tax on something that we waged WAR against for 70+ years. How dumb can you be? How about paying me pot reparations for all the XX,XXX thousands i have paid to corrupt gangsters of the law. Legalization also puts you in a "public pothead database" so you are now a known pot head, which I'm sure we all are in the system already, anyway but why give them the information if it is not needed, ya know.

 

[ControlDenied]

war on drugs? what a lame idea,if we must fight something to feel like big bad heroes,then lets have war on

Your word has reached the Director. They are now the CEA -- Crab Eradication Army -- and they prowl the beaches and surfs with medieval swords, seeking these filthy, inhuman beasts' crackling, spongey carapices to plunge their blade to the hilt into! Forward, knights of glory! [But don't think a crackhead or two won't be damaged by the swinging blade, as if by chance, and left bleeding and cackling on the shore...]
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Maybe if people have a peek into what could have come of the 60s, the psychedelic revolution, and all that's been hidden from us and squandered by maniacal and diabolically controlling powers, they WILL revolt...
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...the Assault on the Crab-things is an assault on magic. If Working-class Joe changes his shit-stained underwear and turns on Oprah while She proselytizes MDMA PTSD therapy -- ordained by unseen, electric gods of mechanized logic -- they will go "GARD DANGERT! DEY TOOK AR SAWLSsss!" and start besieging the Collosus of Bullshit, armed to the teeth with expired visa cards sharpened to a razor's edge...

 

[my84firebird355]

I spoke before reading the study. The overwhelming majority of money is spent not on health care, but on enforcement and prosecution:

• $56,373,254,000 on criminal justice system costs
• $48,121,949,000 on incarceration costs
• $49,237,777,000 on lost productivity from those made unemployable by incarceration

The audacity of government to justify its existence by exacerbating a problem of its own design!

See what you guys don't understand is the combined $100b spent on court and incarceration costs actually go from the federal gov't to the local state gov't which is money states desperately need to keep in the black, and this is why our drugs laws will never really change.

 

[severely etarded]

What's completely fucked is how our system has privatized so many corrections facilities and given big corporations contracts to basically run the prison as a profit-making business. Then when people get busted for crimes imposed on seeking alternate consciousness, they end up slaves working jobs for $0.25/hr.

Meanwhile the US gov is running black-ops moving drugs around, supplying cartels with weapons, etc.

 

[187coopa]

hey if the govt did legalize then they could have price war against the cartels.

they'd start giving out buy 1 get 1 free discounts or buy 10 and get 10 percent off ur tank of gas or so many other things. but the people would benefeit way too much from legalization so wont ever happen.


drugs are bad mmkay.

honestly tho i mean shit if a person wants to do dope there gonna do dope aint no stopping them fuck then atleast ppl wouldnt od anymore cause theyd kno exact amounts of what there puttin in them.

the govt is killing us.

 

[the toad]

How many people do you know who wanted to do drugs but didn't because they were illegal?

Now how many people do you know that wanted to do drugs because they were illegal?