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Would you be happy if your country accepts drug addicts as refugees?

Hazel Vee @epiffanie (11336) • Australia 5 Oct 17

. With the Philippines' Duterte Administration's War on illegal drugs, some drug addicts are seeking refugee status in countries like Australia.. They claim that if they stay in the Philippines, they would be killed..They make it...

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A family member shared a "STOP SELLING HEROIN" meme on Facebook.

flpoolbum @flpoolbum (2978) • United States 5 Mar 17

I replied that the law of supply and demand is at work here. As long as there is a desire there will be a supply. This family member's son overdosed on Heroin and was fortunate enough to walk out of the ER, only to go get high...

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Replace the War On Drugs with sensible regulation and social programs

Brian Leekley @bleekley (8) • United States 7 Jun 16

The so-called War On Drugs in the USA has been very harmful to society. I don't see the sense of labeling drug addicts criminals and putting them in prison. Alcoholics—booze addicts—aren't called felons and put in prison. My...

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Ending the War on Drugs

Kyla Matton Osborne @Ruby3881 (1963) • Canada 14 Apr 16

Canada's current prime minister campaigned in part on a promise to legalize recreational marijuana use across the country. Why? 1) Because prohibition doesn't work. 2) Because decriminalization - something the last Liberal...

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Laws on 'illegal' drugs

Sam Jest @SamJest (42) • Colchester, England 15 Nov 15

Where do you stand on this topic? I find it quite a tough discussion to be honest. I know as a former drug user my opinion may seem slightly biased, but i try to be as fair as i think i can be. To start with, i'm from England (we...

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War on Drugs: Who is the Enemy?

caspertg @caspertg (2) 7 Aug 12

With 90% of all drug related convictions being for possession, who is paying the price of this war and who are the combatants? Who is benefiting from the war on drugs? Who benefits from prohibition? Should we as a global...

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War on Drugs

mattic @mattic (282) • United States 20 Nov 10

The California voters defeated an initiative to legalize marijuana in the recent elections. Can anyone tell me what the US has achieved by its "War on Drugs"? Or maybe even the "War on Poverty"?

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War on Drugs

AnnieOakley1 @AnnieOakley1 (5596) • Canada 27 Aug 10

The War on Drugs has been a total failure, because drugs are more prevalent now than they ever were. Governments continue to spend billions of dollars on harsher sentences, and it does nothing but increase the black market price...

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War on Drugs

dboman @dboman (457) • United States 23 Jun 10

So the War on Drugs and Drug Prohibition have been getting a lot of attention lately...specifically because California is very close to legalizing it for recreational use in November. $1,673.45 is spent every second of every day...

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Grandma Arrested for Cold medicine...Another Victory in the "War on Drugs"?

N4life @N4life (851) • United States 3 Oct 09

I saw this on the local news and it angered me to the poin that I thougt I would turn green and sprout huge muscles. Anyway the prosecutor seems to think this is a legitimate arrest...what do you think?...

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war on...fails

jb78000 @jb78000 (15139) 6 Sep 09

not the war on terror (although it's hard to see how war on a concept can be lost, or indeed won...) but the war on drugs. this is a fairly old topic but the brazilian president has recently spoken out saying the hardline war...

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Should the US Continue Fighting the "War On Drugs" by Attacking the Supply?

saqib0001 @saqib0001 (25) • Pakistan 16 Jan 09

Since President Ronald Reagan initiated an all-out "war on drugs" in 1982, the United States has been spending tens and billions of dollars a year in an attempt to control the trafficking and use of illicit drugs. Most of those...

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Warrantless Searches

Myrrdin @Myrrdin (3599) • Canada 22 Apr 08

In Surrey BC they are running a pilot program to target grow ops. The program targets homes with higher than normal power consumption. Of 6,000 homes on the list 1,000 were targeted for warrantless searches prompting the incident...

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US "war on drugs" unconstitutional?

irdsm1 @irdsm1 (288) • United States 15 Apr 08

I've decided recently that I believe the US "war on drugs" is illegal and unconstitutional. It is not up to the US government to decide what their citizens consume. At the very most it is a state issue, not a national issue....

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Does Marijuana deserve to be a scheduled I Controlled substance

Myrrdin @Myrrdin (3599) • Canada 28 Feb 08

In the United States Marijuana is a Scheduled 1 Controlled substance. This makes it more dangerous then Cocaine in the eyes of the law, Cocaine is a Scheduled II Controlled Substance.Under Title 21 United States Code: Controlled...

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What' cha' goin' t'do, when they COME FOR YOU?

redyellowblackdog @redyellowblackdog (10629) • United States 13 Aug 07

The war on drugs has led to quite a number of mistaken police raids on innocent people. Even deaths have been the result. Ever wonder how many of these raids there have been and where? Now, you can find out. Click this link and...

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Drug Cartels in Mexico are abducting, executing, beheading...

its-logos-plus-logic @flowerchilde (12529) • United States 30 May 07

The Mexican authorities have launched a war against drugs in Mexico, but are finding the cartels are better armed than them.. and they are using terrorist type tactics! And now it is being called a true war.

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Would prohibition help todays world?

howhigh @howhigh (757) • Canada 30 Apr 07

Currently there are a handful of illegal drugs driving enormous industries all around the world. The drug business effects most areas of society.. is criminalization the right solution to attend to societies drug addiction?

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War on drug in my country!

charlestchan @charlestchan (1415) • Malaysia 25 Apr 07

why are we losing it? do you know why? it's simple because the war on drugs in the my country is one that has been unsuccessful since its beginning... Billions of tax dollars are spent every year to stop various drugs in society,...

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Should we end the war on drugs?

filmbuff @filmbuff (2909) • United States 17 Apr 07

Since Nixon declared "war" on drugs, billions of dollars and resources have gone out to fight drug trafficing. The reality of the situation is that little to no progress has been made, and the drug dealers and terrorists are still...