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The war on drugs has high costs to society, and helps to drive up prices of drugs unnecessarily, causing financial distress and criminality in addicts.
Treating drug use as a criminal offense rather than as a disease, means you take a single problem "substance abuse" and then create a 2nd criminal problem on top of it.
Even the billionaire George Sorros crafted a systematic plan, that coupled with legalization, solves nearly all the problems people expect to accompany the suddenly cheap access to drugs.
Why the world will not use logic on this matter is beyond me.
Lets consider all the harm caused by alcohol - believe you me it is a lot - drunk driving, alcoholism, liver scheloris and cancer risk increase plus a ton of other health costs....
But all that pales in comparison to the damage that was done by prohibition.
There's also the recent example of all the benefits of legalizing cannabis.
Drug laws need to be reformed.
The war on drugs IS the problem, not the solution.
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