TYT: How The War On Drugs Started

[Bullet1987]

Run time: 08:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whaGST64Bo4   Posted on YouTube: October 06, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: October 06, 2010 By DU Member: Bullet1987 Views on DU: 1450

 

[MightyAfrodite]

1. Interesting ....

anyone know the name of the article she was talking about?

[ihavenobias]

7. Link

http://www.truth-out.org/the-fraudulent-criminalization-marijuana63664

[MightyAfrodite]

11. Thanks!!

[Plucketeer]

2. This is great, but

even on it's own merit, the War On Drugs is a ridiculous waste of money, lives and effort. You'd have just as efficient results if we outlawed breathing.
I believe in compassion, but in this country that beats it's own drum about it's freedoms, where are the freedoms to be dumb? I know, I know, there's the Tea Party as an example, but the freedoms they exercize are one's that would directly impact the rest of us. While the argument can be made about what unrestricted use of drugs would have on our society, I have faith that truth AND consequences would eventually cause reason to win over lunacy.

THOUSANDS of people are dying BECAUSE of the War On Drugs. What's wrong with shifting that number of deaths onto idiots willing to do themselves in with drugs, instead??? It's really one stupid endeavor to keep throwing funds and people at. Law enforcement deaths - innocent bystander deaths - gangland turf deaths - prison deaths..... This is SUCH a Stupid country! And the religio-compassionists want to impose even MORE of their stupid illogic on the rest of us. If their god IS real, I want NO PART of whatever he's pushin'.

[swilton]

3. One Critical Component That They Missed

was US foreign poicies and the so-called domestic war on drugs.This was when the US DoD was folded into this program. This occurred under Bush I - the end of the Cold War. When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989 and the defense establishment recognized they could no longer use the USSR as the mythical threat that they had manufactured any more, the new foreign threat became drug cartels. In the early 1990's many resources previously dedicated to analyzing and manufacturing the threat from the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact had their charter shifted to the drug wars. Supply side theory of the US drug policy was attacked even by such conservative stalwarts as the then UN Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Bullet.

[PGH TYT fan]

5. K&R

Kick and Recommend

[Archae]

6. This is horse shit.

The "war on drugs" began after the Civil War, when so many soldiers came home addicted to opium.

People used to be able to buy cocaine, morphine and even heroin openly, as patent medicines around 1900.

In the 1930's, DEA head Harry Anslinger spread hysterical and racist anti-pot screeds.

Soon as one substance was outlawed, people got high from another.

People now are getting high smoking some sort of incense, and a Milwaukee-area politician wants to ban it.

[chervilant]

8. hmm...

The "War On Drugs" is a huge red herring. The primary reason this nation vociferously promotes a 'war' on drugs is money. Bankers, politicians and other monied individuals have been and continue to be making vast fortunes on this alleged 'war.'

Furthermore, these 'anti-drug' people are not truly opposed to drug use. The more we common folk use drugs, the more money they make, AND the more distracted, despondent, and disinterested we are. It's a win-win for the Corporatocracy.

[DeSwiss]

9. K&R

Gerald Ford called him "the nation's long nightmare." Said it was over. That's a damned lie, because it's still going on for a lot of people. The riots of the 60's and the law & order 70's, a nation poisoned with the criminal Nixon. And another lost generation created. What would the unemployment rates be like now if all those people they've been locking-up all this time, were out on the streets without a job? But they don't have to count them now. Do they?

It's a familiar refrain: The banks (illegally) launder the drug money by the ton. Police departments become para-military units and the agents of suppression of dissent. While for-profit security conduct our wars, our tortures and renditions. And corrections companies make money from warehousing humans. The ruling classes gets filthier in their riches.

- With liberty raped before our eyes almost everyday, justice mugged and beaten senseless, and all of it put up openly for sale......

[Enthusiast]

10. Much of the extreme anti-drug

sentiment during Nixon's time stems from the fact that most of the drug use was associated with the anti-war counter culture-the political opposition. They used law enforcement to tamp down political opposition to the war. I was there, I watched it first hand.

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