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Originally posted by pr0
Legalize drugs & watch half of all crime dissapear within months.
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You are correct [Example: Amsterdam's leniency re drug use]. Unfortunately, there were so many political fortunes made on the "Get tough on crime" posture here in the US that legalization [outside of the medicinal legalization movement] would have a tough time seeing the light of day.
The drug issue is an "easy" bogeyman for politicians. It is like kissing babies or sampling homebaked apple pie at campaign stops. Unfortunately, it is easier to throw money at this problem [for the voters to see] than to engage the nation in actual honest analysis about the assumptions fueling the "war on drugs."