The War on Drugs is one of the longest and most expensive war ever fought by the United States. Billions of dollars are spent, thousands of arrests are made and countless lives are lost in the name of keeping illegal drugs off the streets. It’s no secret that it’s a war the government is not winning. But is it a
war they should even bother fighting?
Infographic Source : Medical Billing And Coding
Comment by guest on July 17, 2010 at 3:59 am
Great infographic, but includes one gross error. The war on drugs did not begin with nixon in 1970, but began with Harry J. Anslinger by 1930 with his personal vendetta against marijuana and ringing in every other drug of that time. He is most likely the single reason that marijuana is illegal today.
Comment by Irate on July 17, 2010 at 4:03 am
did u average populations?
Comment by Asher on July 17, 2010 at 4:05 am
Cocaine is Schedule II and is used (carefully) in hospitals as an anesthetic.
Comment by Chris on July 17, 2010 at 4:10 am
Cocaine is actually schedule II
Comment by Anonymous on July 17, 2010 at 4:50 am
for 15 billion, just let them have their drugs !
Comment by Wow on July 17, 2010 at 5:21 am
So many factual mistakes with the drug scheduling you stupid schmuck! Cocaine is schedule II since it is still used as a legal Rx in clinical settings in hospital in the US, Codeine, on its own is Schedule II as well, if used as a compound it is schedule III. It used to be V when used in minute quantities in cough medicine but not any more.
Comment by Jacob Adriani on July 17, 2010 at 8:31 am
The war on drugs, when publicly announced in the 70′s, was critized by one man in particular. I forgot his name, which is a shame, but that is not the point.
One man made a rat utopia in an old school. Instead of giving them sugar water (which rats love) with drugs in it, while in tiny cages so they had no choice but to become physically adicted, he put the in the utopia. In the original project where the government showed the effects of drugs, the rats were in the tiny cages. In the utopia, the rats DID use the drugs, but did not become addicted. This showed that the war on drugs was based on a false, or maybe rather incomplete, research.
The research the independent man did was forbidden, he was not allowed to publish it.
So, that is 15 billion dollars barack is gonna spend on bullcrap.
BTW, I’m Dutch.
Comment by WOW IS RIGHT on July 17, 2010 at 10:23 am
I’ve never been to this site before, so I’ve got no dog in the fight, but “Wow”, you’re the stupid schmuck. He was quoting the original schedule, where cocaine was a Schedule I. It would have been inappropriate to put the current schedule there, as that’s not the one passed in 1970, which is what that section is discussing. It has since been amended by subsequent acts. Wikipedia gives that list as:
* The Psychotropic Substances Act of 1978 added provisions implementing the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
* The Controlled Substances Penalties Amendments Act of 1984.
* The Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1988 added provisions implementing the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.
* The Domestic Chemical Diversion and Control Act of 1993.
* The Federal Analog Act.
So next time you call somebody a stupid schmuck, might want to check and make sure you’re not the stupid schmuck, you halfwit.
Comment by viralviralvidels.com on July 17, 2010 at 3:25 pm
we tried prohibition in the 30′s of the most dangerous drug on the planet: booze. It was an utter failure! Can’t we learn from history?
Comment by Matt on July 17, 2010 at 4:53 pm
The War on Drugs is the biggest pork project in American history.
Comment by Anslinger'sGhost on July 17, 2010 at 5:38 pm
The popular war on drugs (“narcotics”) replaced the unpopular war on alcohol so that no rice bowls would be broken when Prohibition ended. This simple fact is emblematic of the ongoing tragedy that is the political process in this country.
Comment by JerpDerp on July 17, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Well it’s true people have been trying to get rid of drugs, the actual War On Drugs plan wasn’t started until Richard Nixon in 1970. Also just reading this thing makes me sad, because if the world is this backwards about antidrug policies, just imagine what else it’s backwards about in fields that are more important than drugs.
Comment by fer on July 17, 2010 at 7:48 pm
its Obamas Fault !!
Comment by sir jorge on July 17, 2010 at 8:05 pm
woa, that’s incredible, simply incredible, eye opening
Comment by WJM on July 17, 2010 at 9:36 pm
The war on drugs has NEVER been about public OR private safety or health. It is and always has been about those in power pushing their power into our faces.
In the case of cannabis, it was those in power wanting to kick the Mexicans out of the country (CA passed just such a law in 1913). Go back into the congressional records from 1937, and you will find that we had to make cannabis illegal so we could “protect the white women”, who, if coerced into smoking it, could be persuaded into sleeping with black men( and let’s get real, here, what is a white man’s biggest fear? To be judged inadequate by women. What could bring that about easily? Black men, obviously).
In the case of opium, it was so they could forcibly remove the Chinese (and protect the white women, of course). And the original prohibition proposals of alcohol (during Lincoln’s time, BTW) were aimed squarely at the Irish.
According to Judge Gray, of CA drug court and the author of “Drug Crazy: How we got into this mess and how we can get out”, this country NEVER had a problem with any drug or substance until it had a minority to use it against. And now, since the real problem we have is in class, not race, the whole thing has been turned on ALL of us, EXCEPT the top 2%. And the for profit prison industry is OVERJOYED. That is why we have more people in prison than any other country in the world, and the rich are making money hand over fist. you can bet that LOTS of them are getting rich on selling the drugs and then making even more by locking people up for using them.
Face it, it’s almost easier to find drugs in prison than it is on the street. If they can’t keep drugs out of a PRISON, why does ANYONE believe they can do it for the whole COUNTRY? We are already in a prison state, what MORE do they want to steal from us? It’s been time to end this nonsense once and for all, and if we insist on screwing with people, the worst we SHOULD do is to offer them treatment if they want it, and leave them alone if they don’t.
I thought this was supposed to be the land of the FREE, not the land of the for profit prison system. You can’t be BOTH, we prove that EVERY day.
Comment by red on July 18, 2010 at 9:56 pm
maybe now is time to put resources onto hemp production for fuel . so ive herd that it makes great fuel for cars and lots of fiber for building material, what a joke WOD is . this one single move could drag the us out of recession. time to correct the stupidity from the 1930 legislation and enjoy the fruits of the earth.
Comment by Kris Bradford on July 20, 2010 at 11:12 am
For those of us who love coke but haven’t seen any good stuff in awhile, I can say that dimethocaine is a good replacement. Like others have said, it didn’t give me that initial rush of beautiful energy that real coke does, but what it lacks at the start it makes up for in euphoria. I broke up a half a gram into 5 100mg lines and did one per hour. I maintained a solid euphoria that was like coke, but also not as strong or fiendy. It is a perfect buzz for a work night when you want to feel good but also need to get a few winks. I preferred it to MDPV, although I can say that MDPV is alot stronger.
Comment by Leonard Krivitsky, MD, DD on July 20, 2010 at 1:23 pm
It is interesting that the opponents of Ca Prop. 19 call themselves “Public safety first”. And this is when it has been conclusively shown by experts that Cannabis use suppresses violent behavior (as opposed to alcohol), and that Cannabis can even be potentially useful in addiction treatment, that is in helping people stay off booze and dangerous hard drugs or prescription drugs. Mexican drug cartels also oppose Legalization because if Cannabis is legalized all their illegal distribution networks are no longer needed. Recent scientific Conference in LA also stressed that current situation is unacceptable and unsustainable, and that it is supported by “prison-industrial complex” in this country because those are the people who benefit financially from more prisons and more prisoners. The so-called “public safety first” campaign against Proposition 19 is simply not entitled to use this name for their lies and distortions, because if we talk about “public safety”, it is the supporters of Prop. 19 and not its opponents who really care about it. Public safety will be much better served if the Proposition passes, rather than if it fails!
Comment by Gale Mcleod on July 27, 2010 at 1:17 pm
For those people who have used cocaine. I suggest you should try Dimethocaine. It has a lighter effect than cocaine but the effects are great.. You’ll feel mood lift, euphoria and stimulation that will last for about an hour but will not be in a rush.
Comment by eggnostriva on August 18, 2010 at 8:00 pm
There is something bigger here. The problems in Afghanistan are all about who controls the poppy production. The taliban pay the farmers a premium to grow opium, and the Taliban use the drugs to destabilise the west and fund their war against the west.The thirld world is desperately short of morphine. The American and UK government could decriminalise heroin. Provide clean Heroin to addicts (instead of the awful methadone). Pay Afghan farmers for their crops. Use the crops for the addicts and provide Morphine for poorer countries. No more war in Afghanistan. No more drug related murders. Much reduced prison population. Its win win. Of course it will never happen. But it should.
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