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Australian Federal Police hacked, classified documents on drug cartels stolen

abc.net.au

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The source article provides much more detail: https://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-agents-targeting-drug...

The headline is misleading. According to the article it's the Colombian police that got hacked, not the AFP.

"The [AFP] spokesperson said transnational organised crime groups were importing illicit drugs into Australia on an industrial scale."

"They are ambivalent to the misery caused by their product, its impact on our health systems, or if innocent people are killed in the crossfire of their turf wars."

Fuck the AFP, and all the other federal and state agencies around the world fighting against drug use. They cause more misery than the drugs ever do.

In cases like marijuana I'm completely behind you, but for heroin and meth I think stopping production and importation is an important step to fixing things. Users should be assisted with safe places to use the drug so overdosing is less of an issue, and safe product should be prescribed to junkies who need it. It allows the whole process to be more controlled.

Also good to keep in mind that there's been a fair amount of gang related vilonce in Australia over the last few months. It's hardly a black and white issue.

The gang violence exists precisely because these drugs are black market substances, making your argument that this is a good reason for their continued illegality as absurd as it's always been when put forth by lawmakers. Also:

>but for heroin and meth I think stopping production and importation is an important step to fixing things.

Yes, exactly what authorities worldwide have invested untold billions in doing since decades ago to such effective, violence-reducing, harm reducing results...

The drug wars are an unmitigated idiocy and always have been, for ALL drugs. Worse things than these are legal and though not perfectly managed or free of harm, much less harmful than the entire shitshow that anti-drug crusades have produced. How can people not see this after 50 years of drug war disasters and immense financial, social and legal losses?

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