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(25,592 posts)How do they keep their prisons full?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Not the drug cartels or banks that launder the money.
madokie
(51,076 posts)that drug addiction should be dealt with in our medical profession, not in our judicial system. At best jail only makes hardened criminals out of otherwise mostly good people who need help who have taken the wrong path. Help them rather than punish them and it will go a lot further towards making a difference.
'The war on drugs,' just the words should tell us it is not the right approach.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)This will not happen in the US.
The population is too religious, too uneducated on the subject of drugs, and brainwashed by the lies the DEA spews.
Another issue, the police will not give up their rights to steal your car, house, boat, property etc.
The US is filled with ignorant vengeful people.
Intelligent people know this is the right approach.
Unfortunately, intelligent people do not govern the US.
avebury
(10,952 posts)with the growth industry of private prisons.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)but I don't know about harder drugs like crack and meth.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)One that US is not about to decriminalize anytime soon. The "war on drugs" is a very productive source of income for many in this country. There's not much hope of addiction being treated like anything other than an opportunity for profit because of that.
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)It's the one war that never ever ends.