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World Bank Says $2B Needed To Lure Farms Away From Drug Production
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- jim: why dealers? they are only supplying what the public wants.
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- 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.
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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?- Reply to this comment
- 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.
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- 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.
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- %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? - Reply to this comment
- 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! - Reply to this comment
- "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. - Reply to this comment
- 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!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- 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. - Reply to this comment
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
