It took about seven sets of government drug surveillance data, and a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers to review the drug supply in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Latin America, Afghanistan, and Southeast Asia in order for them to find out that illegal drugs have become cheaper while their potency has increased, only to indicate that their efforts to control the illegal drug market through law enforcement is just a failure. Just image how much money went into using and making those seven sets of drug surveillance. Billions of dollars that are all going to waste in attempts to use law enforcement to keep illegal drugs off the black market, which is tax money going to waste for nothing. But yet the U.S. government does not want to legalize drugs.
As the prices of heroin, cocaine, and cannabis decreased over at least 80% between 1990 and 2007 the average purity of the drugs has increased by 60%, 11%, and 161%. So this data shows that the war on drugs has failed up to this point and will continue to fail. Campaign groups have done studies that show drug policies are needed to be grounded in science, health, and human rights instead of using prohibition. The global drug control of using law enforcement has only proven to be costly, ineffective, and counterproductive, and to top things off it only has generated high levels of violence, crime, and corruption while failing to reduce the illegal drug market and use of narcotics. Resulting in tax money being thrown to the garbage, which only benefits the drug market.
When hard liquor was prohibited in the early 1900s
it only brought increase in consumption, organized crime taking over the legal
production and distribution and the widespread anger of the federal government
that refused to repeal the prohibition until 1933. We use hard liquor as psychoactive
drugs or narcotics when it was illegal, because illegal drugs
cause the same effect that hard liquor had on the federal government and the
citizens today. Drugs are the cause for more than a million people incarcerated in
the U.S. More than half million people waste their lives over drug law
violations, which would not be possible if there wasn’t prohibition. Since
there is the federal government has to waste even more tax money apart, from
the trillion already spent in the attempt of global drug control, because in
order to keep more than a million people behind bars it costs the government a lot
of money as well.
The government would not have to worry or spend
thousands of dollars a year on each inmate that is behind bars for drug law
violations if legalization was in existence. Just another reason why the war on
drugs in anything, but a success. Countless lives lost every year in the U.S.
alone, along with increased organized crime, and increased consumption the
result of the war on drugs. Not to mention that the federal government believing
it can control the drug market with law enforcement is ridiculous, since it is
obvious it is not going to decrease consumption or distribution, but only
increase. We the people are going to have to sit back and relax to see how long and many
more millions if not billions of dollars the government is going to waste on
drug control before they realize it is useless and nothing better than a
failure.
