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This all may be true, but if cutting off supply really drives demand this way, how do we fight human trafficking as opposed to drug trafficking?

U forgot to put New Zealand on the mwp

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You can't sell pokémon stickers! That's copyright infringement! Christine Weston Chandler can have a word with you about that.

Govt should GIVE free drugs. Too many idiots still breathing.

"the Vietnam war is the only war that the u.s lost" the war on drugs: am i a joke to you?

Its krazy doe I know plenty of people that would trust some street drugs over pharmaxy drugs just because the war on drugs made the government drugs do more harm than some street drugs. For example: acid or trazodone. They both stop hallucinations right? Yes! They do. But at what cost? If you were hit in the head hard enough and survived but got hallucinations, they would give u some pharmacy drugs. I said trazodone cause they fucked up the order which happens alot ! Anyway the acid stopped their hallucinations with no side effects lots of fun time and they had a very new life experience... Now trazadone.. it worked for a good 2-3 months but they started getting side effects!?!! And what side effects u might be wondering? Drolling.. you try to close your mouth but it just keeps coming out for almost a week worth ah time.. but that's not the only side effect!! You get to have locking up muscles that make u have to have an arm bar.. for how long you might ask? Who knows!! Until u goto the hospital n they inject you with something that stops it! Yayyyy. What will you decide? Say maybe to drugs!!!

Heroin vs Cocaine... thats the REAL WAR.... so whos "winning"

I am a "veteran" of this nasty "war" And being located in Mexico this video is actually the most accurate point of view I have ever seen. The war on drugs is just an "enabling" war. After 2 years over there we came home and the kids were not doing drugs nice right? NOT SO FAST, because it wasnt illegal the little buggers were huffing glue instead. THE WAR ON GETTING HIGH IS A TOTAL BUST... war on "drugs" my ass....

Ummm the consequences to the people were INTENDED!

Medicine is a type of drug

I would like to congratulate drugs on winning the war on drugs. GG drugs GG

5:53 is that the doctor who tardis (time machine?)

Drugs need to be LEAGELIZED and REGULATED by the Government.

From what I understood after watching this video, is that American politicians never really wanted a solution to the problem. They just needed an excuse to keep the money circling in the higher strata of the society, all while increasing disparity and division among the general public more than ever. Destroying lives to stop them from being destroyed? It is as ridiculous as it sounds.

yo i'm swiss and every public bathroom (situated in a park) here have trash can hole for needles. especially platzspitz which was well known worldwide due to it's heroin crisis in the late 80's

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Americans cannot comprehend what Switzerland did, just like they can't understand free healthcare. It's all, "I'm not paying for somebody else", brainwashing, even though taxes would cover it and cost them less overall. America: the land of the stupid, the land of brainwashed patriotism, the land of regression. The country with the least amount of free-thinking people by far.

You heard it here first folks the war on drugs killed Doctor Who. (5:50)

If only someone in high power saw this

The war on 80s/90s drugs in America has been won. The NEW war on millennial drugs has yet to even begin. Crack and heroin are no longer at the forefront of addiction cases in America as they were back then. People are addicted to pills and liquid opiates that are produced and manufactured by big pharma. How do you fight something like that? You don't. You join in and capitalize on it. All the government wanted to do in the 80s/90s was to get control of the game for themselves. They have turned every drug you can think of into a pill or liquid form and called it medicine. Addicted to heroin? Here, try Suboxone, methadone. They have a counter drug for every drug in a more convenient form that is just as addictive as the original. Anyways, thats what i think on this subject.

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"black kids are 10 times more likely to get arrested for drug charges" I wonder why. It certainly has nothing to do with weed culture.

4:27 I *really* hate our society.

Even after FOUR YEARS nothing has changed!! OH BOIIII

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In my country, the war on drugs caused the death of 17000. A Maoist revolution and massacre of the Royal family.

4 years later and not there yet. Hoping this Democrat senate federally legalizes marijuana beige the midterms

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See the problem is, America never started a war on drugs to actually stop drugs, they did it for two reasons, make profit off drug charges, and put POC back into slavery. Since prisoners can be forced to do slave work. And this is not something I ever see changing.

"All in pursuit of an unobtainable goal." Damn right it is

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Omg for a moment I thought the title was about the band.

In my country, they imprisoned a 16 year old for 1 year for testing positive in a drug test. Good luck getting a job or even back into school or college.

@HoboGrifter No it was hashish

What if it was Tylenol? Or some adhd medicine

Legal regulate tax and honestly educate people about all drugs,

1 million people lawyers and justice system have benefits from drugs...that the answer

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How could this happen? People like drugs.

So what your saying is do drugs

The thing no one seems to ever mention is what happens after drugs have been made legal. You think the people pushing drugs will suddenly want to (or even be able to) get a 9-5 job for a much smaller amount of money than they got from pushing drugs? These people will just find something else to make a quick buck from - perhaps doing something worse than they are doing today. Im not saying that the US war on drugs is the right answer, but one does need to think about what will happen when all of the drug pushers are suddenly out of a job. Something tells me they wont just sit idle by as they lose their money cow

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2:01 it’s a breaking bad refrance

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american gov still hasn’t implemented effective and generational fixes for ALL of their history against ADOS. Mass Incarceration due to the War on Drugs is just one segment of the 400+ years.

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The best way to stop the bloodsheds in Latin America and Afghanistan. But what happened to the website @t ?

If we finally stopped the war on drugs, whole Latin America and Afghanistan would become peaceful places.

Thank god they changed the intro

In America, we have methadone clinics. This is very similar to the Swiss approach to heroine use. Any opiate ends up being substituted with methadone. There are treatments that can get an opiate user to a drug free lifestyle. It's a small step in the right direction. And, it will take time for this war on drugs to resolve itself and dissolve into a more regulated system. With that, other problems will arise. But, it's a step in the right direction. We are slowly making more drugs legal in various states. We are developing treatments for drugs that were previously thought of as not useful for therapy. We are scheduling drugs to describe them to have more therapeutic potential and less harm potential. Thus, crime charges for drugs are becoming less intense. It's progress toward a better system. We cannot stop people from enjoying drugs by punishing them. We can only end this war through knowledge and effective use and regulation of drugs.

solving violence with violence is never the solution.

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When I read the title I tought that 2 army fought when all the soldiers were high ngl.

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i know what they mean by drugs, lie illegal drugs and hard drugs, but i kinda find it funny how the idea behind it is no drugs no problems... but at the same time "drugs" is also the term we use for medicine. idk i just thought that was interesting.

Many "recreation drugs" are often medical drugs, they are used for rehabilitation and pain relief.

Get rid of the demand, not the supply

Are you kidding me they deserve to have the FBI come and raid them even if you do the peaceful option they're still going to do it they're still going to be problems and they're still going to be coming to the hospital over and over and over again

Tell the stupid boomers that the drugs won

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if you want beat the drugs, *use more drugs!*

Who knew helping people could be helpful to people

War on drugs just puts tax payer dollars into government officials pockets.

I am a non violent drug offender who has done prison time. I couldn’t agree more with this video. Addicts in our society are shamed and made outcasts. The solution is to have connections to our families, friends, and community. And the current system makes it harder to get jobs and housing when you have a drug felony on your record.

"war on drugs" the STUPIDITY of that statement is astounding.

also the hypocricy

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The reason the War on Drugs failed is because it was not nearly as tough on criminals as it should have been. We DESPERATELY need to bring the War on Drugs back in use the death penalty to enforce it!

Solution: Cut the demand. We're already doing a good job of it by spreading information about the dangers posed by illegal drugs. We just need to take it a step further, like actually helping to solve peoples' domestic issues so that they won't turn to drugs as an escape.

Duterte: I'll pretend I didn't see that.

"Unintended consequences" That's where you lost me. Nixon had far less than pure intentions when starting the war on drugs.

If the masses want something, including drugs, what right does a government have to make it a crime? Prohibition time and time again has been proven a failure, no matter the issue. I'm not condoning or advocating drug use but I absolutely advocate individual rights AND personal responsibility.

Portugal showed the world how it can go. Don't treat it as a crime, but a health issue. Don't imprison drug abusers, treat them and their addiction.

This is truth. Decriminalized drugsis the way to go. Treat addicts not lock them up.

Isn't that what oregon did

@Stunt_niklas Oh, but you wouldn’t want 16 year olds using illegal heroin cut with krokodile, would you? Why should they be subjected to the cartels and heroin cut with deadly substances?

@roxarecool no of course natural heroin can be deadly but heroin cut with more dangerous stuff is way deadlier 2. 18 not because the body is fully developed yet but because i think youre an adult at 18 and you can decide on your own what you want to put in your body or not

@Stunt_niklas 1. Are you denying that natural heroin is deadly? 2. Would you set an age limit to legal heroin?

@roxarecool being illegal makes it more deadly because it can be cut with more dangerous substances like krokodile for example

The US is so dumb.

The war on drugs is really a failure I’m high asf as we speak

Take it from me and my experiences, it's easier to get illegal drugs than alcohol in parts of the u.s.a like my hometown. So yeah big fuck up on the gov. Part. ...

@luka Fentanyl should be treated like alchohol?

@roxarecool Not all drugs are deadly. Sure like many most of them are dangerous in high quantities but treat it like alcohol

@joseph hawk You just destroyed my comment. Are there laws against drug consumption? Isn’t it just illegal to posses/sell? I agree with you that the government sucks, but I see this as a contrand issue, not a consumption issue.

@roxarecool i agree thats why drugs should be legal they shouldn't have the right to say anything about what goes into anyone body.

It’s not the government’s job to protect you from yourself.

I'd like to add some details as to why treating heroin addicts with heroin works well. Heroin slows down your heart rate and breathing. This is the reason why an overdose can be lethal. That said, the long term physical effects of heroin are surprisingly low and mainly related to that resulting lack of oxigen. The real problem of the substance itself is the high potential for addictions. That combined with street heroin usually containing less than 10% heroin in favor of other substances that are a lot more toxic than the heroin itself. Also the injection as method of application is even more dangerous than other methods. Furthermore the active dose is not that much lower compared to the lethal dose. This means that, especially after developing some tolerance, just small errors in the dosage can have lethal consequences. And not knowing how much heroin actually is in your stuff makes these errors a lot more common. Therefore the access to clean heroin can not only allow measures for improving the patients general or social life to take effect but also heavily improves their physical health.

The solution used in Switzerland will never be applied in the US. There are too many vested interests.

I like how the vault said thermite proof. Nice breaking bad reference

correction: the AMERICAN war on drugs here in brazil shit is way worst. just watch "tropa de elite"

I hate to see humanity suffer like this. Time to change how we solve things about drugs here. What we do in the US doesn’t work at all, indeed.

Politics of war on drugs is a total failure just like any other government policy

No shit addiction is a sickness WE should treat it as such. If someone decide to Take drugs it's Most of the time because they cant handle reality in one way or another. WE should try to Help these people instead of punishing them.

@brian smiles Who is “we?”

@roxarecool never Said anything Like that...U should read correctly and then answer.

It’s not the government’s job to protect people from themselves.

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where is portugal and their decriminalization of all drugs?

Legalized DRUGS

TRUTH and bid pharmaceutical industries are the number one drug cartels and pays off and control and continue to CONTROL YOUR GOVERNMENT

Oregon be taking the first steps in the right direction

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its sad that the current system instead of helping addicted who have many life problems it kicks them in balls even harder with jail and other stuff

Is it the role of government to protect people from themselves?

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4:27 my jaw fucking dropped. wow. E: looked into this more and the war on drugs was a success. Not because it prevented drug abuse & such, but because its goal from the start was actually to destroy black communities, as hippies and blacks were the enemies of the Nixon White house. If you don't believe me, ask John Ehrlichman, who assisted Nixon. Also thanks for all the info for my speech in school lol

Cite your source that “hippies and blacks” were the enemies of the Nixon administration.

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