Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

BiBoFieTo t1_j6mr2rj wrote

Reply to comment by MohamedsMorocco in Canada province experiments with decriminalising hard drugs by YoanB

This is wrong. In 2016, over 45% of US federal prisoners were convicted of a drug offence. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world.

When Nixon started the 'War on Drugs' in the 70s', the US incarceration rate was approx. 160 per 100,000 people. In the following thirty years it ballooned to 700 per 100,000, yet people still used and distributed drugs.

There hasn't been an intermittent effort to stamp out drug use. It has been a relentless march that has gone nowhere. The winner of the war on drugs is drugs.

The government of Canada has rightly switched to harm reduction strategies with hard drugs, and decriminalized less harmful drugs like marijuana.

19

Relevant-Designer596 t1_j6mwtdc wrote

It’s not just drugs you guys are animals in America anyways. If it wasn’t for drugs it would be for violent offences.

−9

M1dnightMuse t1_j6n5cgk wrote

Iunno. Many more people are willing to smoke a joint than kill someone.

But the issue is more that our prisons are:

  1. Allowed to be ran for profit and receive money for every prison incarcerated.

  2. Are allowed to use the incarcerated as slave labor.

So the elite rig the system to incarcerate as many as possible so private, for profit prisons can print blood money.

7