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My Own Research Regarding the Failed War on Drugs

http://www.dea.gov/pubs/pressrel/pr122805.html


Listed below are Drug Enforcement Administration successes from Fiscal Year 2005. […]

Financial and Money Laundering Operations:

DEA Operations stripped drug traffickers of nearly $1.9 billion in drug proceeds. This includes $1.4 billion in asset seizures and $477 million in drug seizures.

According to the most recent available estimates from the US government (What America’s Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, from the White House Office of Drug Control Policy), the total US drug trade was worth about $64 billion in 2000. Levels of drug use seem to have declined since then, so I’m willing to give the D.E.A. credit for a FULL 1% effectiveness (instead of the 0.75% that a $64 billion drug trade would give.)

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Now although I understand that determining how many people are actually using/selling/distributing/etc illegal drugs against those who actually get caught doing so is nearly an impossible task, I still offer these figures as ‘evidence’ presented by the same government that claims that we are getting a handle on the supposed epidemic problem.

Personally, I make no claim to the veracity of these government supplied numbers [no matter how silly], but at least they offer you an idea of how big a failure the war on drugs has [always] been.

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    audiomind

    adding to that last note:

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    http://www.samhsa.gov/

    data taken from that site:

    [quote]Although the number of ER visits associated with ‘ecstasy’ is relatively low, the thought of over five thousand users near death’s door being hauled in by ambulances is rather troubling. But…the data doesn’t mean what it seems to imply at first glance. Look at the “marijuana” column near the bottom. For every case where ‘ecstasy’ was present, there were about twenty marijuana-related cases. How can this be? Marijuana is extremely safe; the vast majority of these people were clearly not in medical danger. The explanation is that people on psychoactive drugs often come to the ER because they think something might be wrong; they get scared. With MDMA, a lot of ‘got scared’ stories appear to be happening as well. A study of ER admissions in the Netherlands found that, of the patients there for some complaint related to ‘ecstasy’, most (89%) did not require treatment beyond the initial visit/talk with a doctor. Most ER cases also involve alcohol. [2] (If you feel something might be wrong, either with yourself or somebody else, do not hesitate to seek medical attention. Maybe it’s nothing serious, but better to be safe than sorry.)[/quote]

    http://thedea.org/statistics.html

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