Policy The Drug War Is A Lie

I posted this because the beginning is an interesting take on the "drug war". it's informative. some people believe crack came from the government to destroy black communities and families from the inside out: demolishing the family dynamic. one or both parents are not present.

racism still runs in veins super close to the surface in the US.
 
I still haven't seen any convincing evidence to suggest that crack was introduced into black communities by the federal government. Crack is just freebase cocaine and it was pretty much inevitable that someone would eventually discover its desirable effects in comparison to the more common hydrochloride salt of cocaine. Although it probably wasn't purposely introduced into black communities in an effort to destroy them, the subsequent policy introduced as a means of combating the issue almost definitely was. The mandatory sentencing is still beyond me, the fact that the absence of a chlorine atom can get you a 100 times (literally) longer sentence than if you had a HCl salt is insane. Ronald Wilson Reagan is the devil, each of his names has six letters, 666, think about it...
 
Morbid Sea Cow said:
I still haven't seen any convincing evidence to suggest that crack was introduced into black communities by the federal government. Crack is just freebase cocaine and it was pretty much inevitable that someone would eventually discover its desirable effects in comparison to the more common hydrochloride salt of cocaine. Although it probably wasn't purposely introduced into black communities in an effort to destroy them, the subsequent policy introduced as a means of combating the issue almost definitely was. The mandatory sentencing is still beyond me, the fact that the absence of a chlorine atom can get you a 100 times (literally) longer sentence than if you had a HCl salt is insane. Ronald Wilson Reagan is the devil, each of his names has six letters, 666, think about it...
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I think you could say that the USA supported groups of individuals who were importing cocaine into the United States, I think that's fair to say. When people say that the US government "introduced crack to black communities", it kinda invokes the image of some guys in suits, sunglasses and wires connected to their ears waving trucks and panel vans filled with crack into a warehouse in southcentral Los Angeles or something lol. I think the facts, as they can be ascertained, is that the CIA supported groups in Central America which supported themselves financially through drug trafficking of cocaine into the United States...and that they both knew this fact and actively sabotaged DEA efforts to thwart these groups. That's a bit more nuanced though...

I agree that the ad was decent.
 
Thing is, if you read '1984', the way governments slowly erode civil liberties, is to keep their population in a constant state of war. When it became so fucking obvious that the 'war on drugs' was an utter pile of horseshit, it became 'the war on terror', which worked wonderfully, because it wasn't just drug users at risk, it was literally everyone. If this ever looks like waning, there'll be something like a 'war on disease'.
It's not exactly jolly, light reading, but Orwell's works are almost like a plan on how to set up a totalitarian state. Sadly, due to there being no 'war on ignorance' (in fact a narrowing of the sort of education older members of this site will have had, less and less people read the original literary source material, like '1984', 'Animal Farm' and other works by him. Wait for the Hollywood version and you can guarantee that bit's will have been manipulated to remove any possible threat to those in charge. The books are not happy reading, but I would say essential modern literature (just as important as Shakespeare and Dickens, and miles more important than Geoffery Chaucer's rambling)
 
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