Comments on: U.N.: Bumper Afghan Opium Crop This Year

World Bank Says $2B Needed To Lure Farms Away From Drug Production

[bm6005]

The drop out rate is higher in sertain areas.
Look it up
Posted by marcpcbs

Your spelling is certainly an indication of that!

[missingamerica]

Taliban and El Qaeda terrorists are funded by heroin drug smuggling. Lets cut off the money for these mass murderers.

Posted by telecom_1 at 03:32 PM : Feb 05, 2008

Taliban - "maybe", only.

Al Qaeda? They''re funded by oil money flowing from Saudi Arabia, primarily. Guess we should fight terrorism by imprisoning all of the oil dealers, too.

Oh, wait...

[honestabe8]

Jim: I got no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is a Government that does not want to debate domestic policy. Particularly when it seems to be opposed by a large percentage of people. The ONDCP charter says they are to oppose any effort to change the current laws by whatever means necessary. The truth or lack of is not an issue with them.

[jimfinster]

jim: why dealers? they are only supplying what the public wants.
Posted by honestabe8

Well, it is either do that or legalize. We should decriminalize possessing small amounts for personal use, but continue with criminal prosecution for dealers. But quit spending billions chasing them around. Just my opinion.

[telecom_1]

Taliban and El Qaeda terrorists are funded by heroin drug smuggling. Lets cut off the money for these mass murderers.

[duffyn]

Opium is not a morality issue. It is highly addictive. People who are too high on it can''t drive properly, do things they would not do. And if they take it for too long must go through horrible with withdrawals. The only good use of opium is Dr controlled for patient where that is the only thing that works and their life is short as a tolerance is built up that makes you need more and more. That said, why the the "heck" can''t legitimate pharma companies buy it???? For terminal cancer patient, it is a god send.

[hypnotoad72]

Ask for it from China - they''ve got a big surplus rolling in. It''ll help make up for all the products they''ve sold around the world, that in turn have maimed and killed dur to their sloppy lack of standards and QC... And merely begin to make up for all the intellectual property they freely pirate.

Community service. Sounds fair. Where am I wrong?

[honestabe8]

crzmeat: honesty does not support their policy.

[cdfoxtrot]

Why on earth is the World Bank looking to get into the "morality" business? If people want opium or what comes out of it, isn''t that the free-market outcome that the US and the World Bank pretends to support? Throwing away taxpayer money in the name of some holier than thou policy that''s doomed to failure is a scandal.

[Krazcarl]

Ahhh lets waste a few billion at best it will only drive up the price prohabition has never and will never work folks take the time to supply there vices. The only tool that will is treatment and clinics with honest education. When I was a kid {60''s} there were telling you if you smoked weed you''d hallusinate become irractic and dysfunctional most folks start out the drug game on weed they smoked it found out it was a lie so didn''t beleave anything else the goverment said lets just get honest.

[honestabe8]

jim: why dealers? they are only supplying what the public wants.

[jimfinster]

We should drop the whole "War on Drugs" charade and focus all that money on education and treatment. Quit jailing people for minor drug violations - prison sentences for dealers only.

[inventagod]

Everywhere the US has tried to eradicate the drug trade, the drugs have proliferated. Maybe the US should get out of the drug business altogether?

[jimfinster]

I suggest reading some of William F. Buckley Jr. writings on this topic. They are very good. He details why the War on Drugs has been a huge failure.

[yongamerica]

It is not the World Bank''s job to be a police force. It''s charter is to loan impoverished nations moneys until they are in such deep debt that these nations then are forced to prostitute themselves to corporate greed and rape.

[jimfinster]

%u201CWell, take a look at the statistics from the "war on drugs" to date. We have spent billions of dollars on interdiction with little or no reduction in drug flow. This is clearly not the answer. Experts believe the most effective tools are education and treatment for drug users. But our govt has not done a good job in that area....%u201D
WRONG! Experts. What Experts?

Clearly the present course is not working. I am not saying we should legalize drugs. But the money spent (wasted) on interdiction could be better spend elsewhere. Only a fool continues with the same failed policy year after year. Is that what you advocate?

[jimfinster]

jimfinster
These are 2007 statistics from the Federal Board of Education. This is a nation wide average. The drop out rate is higher in sertain areas.
Look it up
Posted by marcpcbs

I already did. It is not 50% as you claim!

[gkc99]

"Pot growers aren%u2019t medicine makers; they%u2019re drug dealers and they always have been. THC has been available in pill form for over 35 years now and the contents of pot smoke are more poisonous than what%u2019s in cigarette smoke."--Posted by marcpcbs

Wrong and wrong.

The real drug plant is tobacco, with its heart-damaging nicotine, not present in pot. And, not too surprisingly, a lot of real conservative, traditional values Republicans love tobacco growers and give them fat subsidies, because their Virginia drug producers give them lots of money.

If there really were a war on drugs in America, it would start with tobacco. What we have is a culture war of Nazis against anyone who doesn''t buy into the "reefer madness" propaganda.

[walt1944-2009]

Apparently, with Paul "Wolfman" Wolfovitz and his "squeeze" gone, the World Bank suddenly has more money to use. Only the Great Emperor Bush II would bring this crook back into the government of the US(SA)!

Besides that, wasn''t it Reagan who declared a "War on Drugs"? Whatever happened to that war? I guess we lost it somewhere between the Great Emperor Bush I (sr) and the Great Emperor Bush II (jr)!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!!

[lochlan-2009]

marcpcbs - Anything else you want to make up about drugs and their effect on our country. I think just about everything you''ve said here was wrong.

Misinformation, I guess it is the American way.