12-10-2016, 10:49 AM
(12-09-2016, 09:39 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: You read that correctly. Heroin is now responsible for more deaths in American than guns. More than twice as deadly, when you combine all opioid and synthetic opioid related deaths.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/08/heroin-deaths-surpass-gun-homicides-for-the-first-time-cdc-data-show/?utm_term=.7beeda16ed9b
But yeah, we should end the "war on drugs", not enforce the boarder, etc..
The war on drugs has not prevented this situation, in fact it has enabled it. It is time for a new strategy. Doubling down on failed strategies doesn't work any better in the war on drugs than it did it Vietnam or other actual wars.
We lost the war on drugs the day we declared it. It is time to declare victory or admit defeat and develop a new strategy going forward. All the evidence points to legalization reducing crime, costs, and deaths related to drug use. But, I am one of those crazy libtards pointing out that facts have a well known liberal bias. Sorry, I can't help it.
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