what was the outcome of the government's actions for the war on drugs and prohibition?
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higher prices for recreational drugs and higher profits for importers.
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Drug-related crime would go down. Drug-Induced crime would stay about the same.\n\nLegalized drugs would demolish the drug trade. It would also increase tax revenue. It would also diminish the appeal of drugs, since they could be gotten at any specialized store.\n\nBut this would not eliminate all the drug problems. There will always be a difference between those who use the "socially" and those that abuse them. I'd imagine we'd have scenarios similar to alcohol, where there are those that use it in a social situation for a good time but there are others who abuse it.\n\nHowever, compare the user/abuser scenario to what we have now. Billions of dollars each year are funneled into the DEA, fighting a "war" that can never be won. Endles violence from cartel wars down to armed robbery for a fix. The list goes on.\n\nLegalizing it makes the prices go from astronomical to economical. You eliminate the illicit trade crossing the borders. Cartel and gang drug related violence would drop like a rock. And since the use/user is being tracked, it would be much easier to follow those that have bad habits.\n\nPlus, we'd get some amount of cash back in the government for other projects.\n\nThere would still be problems to be sure, but I believe it would be a net positive gain.\n\n~X~
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Helping you out with your homework huh?  Well I will not make it 4 or five sentences long but will give you something to think about.  \nThe impact it has on the American history is it started the rebellion against taxation and the mother country.  The second thing is that Americans decided to govern themselves and form a new government.  It also lead to no one ruler will govern America, judicial system, legislative branch and the executive branch.  It lead to a revolt and to the rights of our civil liberties.
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I'd say war on drugs. They are becoming an abomination on our land. It is so wide spread it would be hard to find a group to inlist. \nBut it needs to be dealt with properly and soon. It is destroying so many lives.
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Yes.  That way we could use the police for more preventative measures.  We could get rid of the drug dealers.  We could regulate the substance - people would get what they paid for - no sugar, flour, Comet, Drano, etc - and the O.D.s would practically disappear.  We could tax it and help remove the national multitrillion dollar debt. \nI don't use drugs, but I don't think it's the government's right to tell me that I can't.  I am a functioning tax paying adult. The government is not my parent.
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Legalize/tax/regulate recreational drugs..pulls the profits out of the hands of the cartels, taxes pay for rehab and education, no more turf wars over who can sling rocks on a street corner.
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Pot became illegal after the end of Prohibition.  The government needed a job for all those Prohibition Officers.  Instead of disbanning the department, they choose to go after other personal demons.\n\nI read a very interesting article, back when the Fed's decided to criminalize marijuana, many, many doctors petitioned the government to not do it.   Even way back then, some docs knew of the medicinal qualities of pot.  Of course, after the government pulled some heavy handed tactics, the docs shut up.\n\nJust because you personally don't like it, or use it, should not mean that I don't have the right to.  I don't like perfume, should I petition Congress to outlaw it?\n\nDue to our ridiculous Prohibition on pot & other drugs, it is now easier for our young people to buy drugs, than beer.  Ask any teen you know, they will tell you the same thing.\n\nIMHO, the federal government will NEVER de-criminalize pot, they have way too many people on the payroll that they won't fire or transfer to other departments.  The "war on drugs" is futile, and big business, no way would our government voluntarily shrink it's size.
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The stock market would be perturbed. Other forms of criminality would know a sharp increase. The agriculture of some countries would be severed and so the local economies. Petty crimes would know a rise in some areas. \n\nAccording to the DEA and to many other experts, (illegal) estimates vary. The drug market would represent about 3.5 to 8 percent of the world GDP. This estimate include all by-products, which are cover up companies and business activities, legal fee and lawyer incomes, budgets of drug enforcement administrations, shipping, prisons costs, etc.
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well a cop once told me they needed drug laws so they can hasve reasonable excuse to bust in \nseems like with terror legislation nowwe can afford to relax on those choosing to self medicate with a plant the war has made equal to the price of gold ,a weed that costs nothing to grow yourself\na politition told me once that paper money is made from hemp fibre ,so the law  is so people cant make thier own money ,i just had to laugh but he was serious ,but we have plastic money and they dont make that plastic from hermp but petrol ,time to ban petro chemical? yea right\na lawyer once told me 20 out of 12 plead guilty and apparently dopers keep the prison ers quiete so that wioont change ,we have legal aid here the average volenteer lawyer on duty makes 300 ,per guilty plea on a good day of comunity service he makes 6000 ,the govt makes 18,000 ,so what those 2/3 rds of lawyers going to do for money ,lawyers wont help ,drug laws all they know ,\ndrug law works by precident ,ie a higher court ruled it thus its now law ,the preceedents have been made on all grounds of apeal a long time ago ,that deems a plant a drug ,despite it clearly beingf a compound of chemicals 1600 plus a single drug thc ,\nthe precedent has deemed a plant ,ie legally a fungable despite clearly being whilst attatched to the ground thus part of the land ie a fixture , thus only allowed to be made a fungable by the tennents permission\nthe farce goes on and on the injustice rolls on we had a drug war to demonise drug use brought aboput because petro chemical users wanted to bankrupt and take over the hemp fibre and oil marketts ,it used the fbi and hoover ,via the hurst chain to make dupoint brothers rich enough to make the nuclear bomd ,to allow the murder of our planit ans eventuall sponser and paymasyer of those oil rich shieks who buy our weopons of mutual destraction\nso good luck ,it will never happen.
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I say the war on poverty, because this failure also leads to the failure on drugs (i.e. poverty increases the chance of getting involved with drugs). Poverty also leads to crime, and believe it or not terrorist activities. If the world had a level playing field (i.e. fewer inequities between nations), there would be much less terrorism, and much, much less support for it. Poverty leads to many of the other problems facing the world and until it is better addressed, we will be dealing with all it's side effects.
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Sorry about your luck.\n\nThey need to legalize the stuff.  It's a lot less dangerous than alcohol!
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Well first of all these idiots that think making drugs legal are the people using them and would like nothing more then to be able to walk around and smoke weed, while children look up at them and think this is ok.Truth is that the government would have to step up to the plate close the mexican borders and make harsher punishment on the dirtbags that sell, create or do drugs. Make them so scared to do it agian that they wont. But if you look at all the avenues of drugs from hospitals that treat the people on drugs and the police that arrest the scum out there. There is billons made on drugs and the after effects of them. If the government would stop running the country like a buisness we could get a leg up on the war agianst drugs.
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they have better prescription drugs for them now.  the govt is making it illegal so we have to buy pills from them.. dont worry... theyll still be able to get high somehow
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Everything but the drugs (I hope) may be true, but the military doesn't start wars in the middle of our streets, they save it for poor unfortunate other countries.  And they don't fight over drug selling territories (something illegal), they fight over oil rights (something mostly legal).\n\nOtherwise, you make an interesting point.  Make sure you vote out the thugs in office next november (another difference, since we don't get a vote in who runs the gangs)!
626846
frustrating situation and rising resentment. I can't think of any other nations who supported the vietnam war, that was the problem. Drugs didn't have anything to do with vietnam, it was a domestic issue.
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If Germany had won the war the government of the criminal actions would have permeated throughout the world and have begun to plot against each other and eventually that government would have broken apart fighting itself.  Then somewhere a movement would have begun to grow supportive of individual rights and it would have consume the older government.  \n\nAlthough centralized government will come to the fore periodically, over time, that which is supportive of the individual will rise and win.
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The war on drugs is a waste of time and money. It hasn't had any impact on the use of drugs in our country. We could easily use those resources on something more useful. You don't even hear anything about the so called war on drugs anymore because it has become an embarrassment.\n\nCheers :)