And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you fight a war on drugs and addiction.

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bailandocontigo1 on January 25th, 2021 at 01:48 UTC »

Guessing here but its probably because some important and influential people are making alot of money on the US war on drugs. Its all about money. Pick a problem with a plausible solution that is ignored, there are many, and you will find its money and corruption. Example, florida and solar. 12 yrs ago solar was very difficult to have in Florida unless you paid cash. Banks wouldn't finance it. Duke(now progress) lobbied heavily against solar start ups and solar renting. Look up citizenRe, out of Boston. They had a deal where they would average your 12 mo power bill and that would be the price you paid to rent solar that would be installed on your home for x years it took to pay it back. I was a sales rep. Duke energy realized the losses theyd face if this were successful along with net metering and determined they had to make it extremely difficult for solar financing and rental for average floridians, and that was the end of that. Now, Duke has solar farms all iver florida and brags about how green they are when really they were being assholes until they could compete. Corruption. Same with the war on drugs. When it becomes profitable we will have no drugs.

The_Muffintime on January 25th, 2021 at 02:47 UTC »

Bring the addicted (many or most of whom are desperate for a way out of their addiction hell) out of the shadows and into a safe place where they can stabilize and get the help they need to get clean. That is indeed how you fight a war on addiction instead of a war on addicts.

Awesomodian on January 25th, 2021 at 03:44 UTC »

Often in memes like this the decriminalization is highlighted but it is hardly the main issue. Not nearly enough is said about all the support programs and the aggressive anti drug (similar to anti smoking) programs that were introduced to curb drug use before it gets bad or to help the issues underlying and more generally the cutural shift that happened around drug usethat took many years (and I don't mean accepting it).

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it

I guess my point is memes are terrible ways to get your information and reality is complex.