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Jeff Sessions Reinvigorates the Drug War

apdst said:
The drug addiction rate in Canada is higher than the drug addiction rate in The United States. Canada is #6 in the world. The United States is #9 Great job ****ing over your country with all that forward thinking.
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What is your source for this ranking?
 
" The US has the highest rate of illegal drug use in the world. " from #49 / RM
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Let's accept that as a valid premise.

Even if it's true, while the trend in Western nations is a de-escalation of Drug War, the Trump administration is going in the other direction.

Canada for example is reportedly planning to end their prohibition nation-wide, not just in BC.
" The US has the highest rate of illegal drug use in the world. " from #49 / RM
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End the Drug War, and that rate drops to zero.
 
Oh no! Drug dealers are going to get harsh sentences!
 
"Oh no! Drug dealers are going to get harsh sentences!" hb #53
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Oh no! Drug dealers are going to get harsh sentences, usurping the Creator endowed, Constitutionally enumerated unalienable right of Liberty!
This martial usurpation of an unalienable right, this conspicuous violation of our national charter, this human rights catastrophe has already cost U.S. about a $Trillion!

You mean to tell me you'd rather throw your fellow tax payers in prison AT YOUR EXPENSE, than boost our U.S. national defense budget by that same $Trillion $dollars?!?!

So how long ago did you join ISIL?
 
I think this may be a blessing in disguise. Actually enforcing the law will start to push the discussion to legalizing drugs. There is no point having laws that are not enforced because it will lead to selective enforcement.
 
#55

It's an inspiring thought.

BUT !!

Our 21st Amendment was ratified in 1933, repealing Prohibition.

Clearly we have NOT learned this lesson.

I understand. You're suggesting this will turn the trick.

Count me a skeptic.
 
Nap said:
I think this may be a blessing in disguise. Actually enforcing the law will start to push the discussion to legalizing drugs. There is no point having laws that are not enforced because it will lead to selective enforcement.
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That's very possible. Especially if they go back to high-profile home-invasion raids and catch unintended people in the net.

Subtlety is not this administration's virtue.
 
Removable Mind said:
Jeff Sessions is a prick!

The U.S. attorney general is bringing back the harshest sentences for low-level drug offenses, rejecting Obama-era reforms.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/sessions-sentencing-memo/526029/

The Prison Economy is back on. So if Trump uses prisons and war to boost jobs in America that would make him "The Little Prick in Chief who wants to be The Big Prick in Chief".
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Jeff sessions is a prick for enforcing the laws you personally dont like ?

No he,s not a prick, the last two AGs were pricks as was their boss for politicizing law enforcment and just being all around corrupt jackasses.

The heroin epidemic thats destroyed lives, families and communities is just another noth on a disastrous Obama legacy
He did nothing to stem the supply of cheap and deadly drugs into communities around the nation.

Sessions and Trump decided to actually do something about it and Trump haters are too partisan to see the wholesale destruction opiates have done to entire communties
 
Nap said:
I think this may be a blessing in disguise. Actually enforcing the law will start to push the discussion to legalizing drugs. There is no point having laws that are not enforced because it will lead to selective enforcement.
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No, this wont lead to legalization and why should it ?

Where's the logic in legalizing the very substances that have caused so much destruction and lives lost in communities throughout America ?
 
Fenton said:
Jeff sessions is a prick for enforcing the laws you personally dont like ?

No he,s not a prick, the last two AGs were pricks as was their boss for politicizing law enforcment and just being all around corrupt jackasses.

The heroin epidemic thats destroyed lives, families and communities is just another noth on a disastrous Obama legacy
He did nothing to stem the supply of cheap and deadly drugs into communities around the nation.

Sessions and Trump decided to actually do something about it and Trump haters are too partisan to see the wholesale destruction opiates have done to entire communties
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The heroin epidemic is proof that the war on drugs isn't working.
 
Fenton said:
Jeff sessions is a prick for enforcing the laws you personally dont like ?

No he,s not a prick, the last two AGs were pricks as was their boss for politicizing law enforcment and just being all around corrupt jackasses.

The heroin epidemic thats destroyed lives, families and communities is just another noth on a disastrous Obama legacy
He did nothing to stem the supply of cheap and deadly drugs into communities around the nation.

Sessions and Trump decided to actually do something about it and Trump haters are too partisan to see the wholesale destruction opiates have done to entire communties
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Sessions and Trump are re-invigorating the Corporate Prison mentality. Corporate Prisons are multiple steps backwards in solving criminal rehabilitation problems and the drug problem. The root of the Drug Problem is 11,000 tons per year of opium from Afghanistan and an Afghanistan under the thumb of the CIA. Is there a connection? Perhaps the problem is systemic. Where do all the illegal opiates in the form of Big Pharma pills come from? Is Corporate Business the root of the problem. Does a cat have an ass?
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" this wont lead to legalization and why should it ? " F #59
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It should for several reasons.

- Drug War is a human rights catastrophe.

- Drug War is an extremely expensive indulgence we cannot afford, considering our $20 $Trillion in debt.

- It's about the only major problem I know of that can be solved with the stroke of a pen.
"The heroin epidemic is proof that the war on drugs isn't working." Dn #60
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Paradoxically, perhaps so.
Some sources do report that per capita beverage ethanol consumption in the U.S. decreased after Prohibition was lifted.
 
devildavid said:
What is your source for this ranking?
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There are several. I chose the one that looked the worst, of course. Google it and no matter how the numbers shake out, Canada leads The United States in drug addiction rate.
 
Lutherf said:
Good grief!

The guy SPECIFICALLY said he was going after traffickers, not users. He even cited offenses in the kilogram range. If you've got a kilo of meth a week habit and consider yourself a "user" then jail is probably the safest place for you.
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Dont baffle them with facts. They have a good racist hate filled rant going.
 
apdst said:
There are several. I chose the one that looked the worst, of course. Google it and no matter how the numbers shake out, Canada leads The United States in drug addiction rate.
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So you cherry picked.
 
calamity said:
Hmm, with the Attorney General being from Alabama, how much you want to bet most of those new prisoners will be Black?
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You seem to be quite obsessed with race and regionally prejudiced.
 
ObamacareFail said:
You seem to be quite obsessed with race and regionally prejudiced.
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When thee region has a history of treating a certain race as second class persons...the shoe fits.
 
Absentglare said:
Racist ****s like Sessions utilize this pivot from explicitly harming minorities to supporting harsh drug laws that disproportionately harm minorities.

Sessions is a racist coward who violated his own recusal in several ways. He should resign.
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The left wing charge of "disproportionately harming minorities" is in itself racist. It assumes that Sessions or anyone enforcing the law has intent to be disproportionate based on race. The truth is that it is the politicians who started out as lawyers and once they get to D.C. and feed at the trough of trial attorney lobbyists and donors that are responsible. They are the ones who have set up the system where the best legal defense goes to the highest bidder. It's not about race. It's about income. if you are wealthy, you can afford the best lawyers. If you are not, you hire the local unknowns or accept a public defender. OJ Simpson managed to get away with two murders because he could afford the best legal defense money could buy.
 
Helix said:
Sessions will be a boon to the private prison industry. "freedom," indeed.
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If one does the crime, one should do the time. Once that message gets across, prison overcrowding will start coming down.
 
Moot said:
Sessions lost his credibility when he lied to congress...and his mere presence undermines the entire judicial system. There will be no peace or justice until that POS is gone or in prison himself.
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Except that Sessions did not lie to Congress.
 
Gaius46 said:
Canada's being a leader here. They're looking to legalize recreational use of marijuana nationwide. And they've apparently found a way to do it while staying within the bounds of the UN treaty that they - and we - signed making marijuana illegal.
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An incredibly stupid move by Canada.
 
Gaius46 said:
Canada's being a leader here. They're looking to legalize recreational use of marijuana nationwide. And they've apparently found a way to do it while staying within the bounds of the UN treaty that they - and we - signed making marijuana illegal.
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Colorado is violating the law of the land?
 
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