Why have we got to fight a war on drugs anyway? I’d much rather discuss science on drugs.
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One underlying assumption of the WoD is that every stakeholder and player in the entire enforcement game is actually some sort of super-clean anti-drug zealot. Unimpeachable. Incorruptible.
What nonsense! They’re people. The system itself cannot work because (excluding all the obvious porous border etc statements) across the entire population of people involved, there will always be a weakness in the level of desire of participants to reduce the amount of money sloshing around this narcotic ocean.
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Like, Paul Erdos and his use of amphetamines? 
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GIF bank that shit yo.
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and can thank the Clinton administration for the three strikes law and prison for profit industry that has led to the mass incarnation in the U.S.A.
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Those things certainly didn’t help but the explosion of the prison population began well before Clinton took office. The “tough on crime” laws responsible for the steep growth curve were mostly already in place by the late 80s.
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If we use the Freakonomics argument about the apparent correlation between access to abortion and crime, we could argue that the Swinging 60’s produced unwanted babies that would have been teens/young adults (prime criminal age) during the beginning of that uptick (1974-1980), after which Reaganomics, the War on Drugs, and Roe v Wade took over.
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