Who's winning the war on drugs?

[Jumbo Shrimp]

Eugene Jarecki on CNBC's The Cycle

Have we stopped the flow of drugs? No.
Have we stopped drug use? No.
Have we made drugs harder to get? No.

So who's winning the drug war?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAaqg6flPM

[Murray N Rothbard]

Government, the police state and drug cartels are winning, the people are losing.

[Jumbo Shrimp]

Government, the police state and drug cartels are winning, the people are losing.

We have a winner!

[Lucille]

Government, the police state and drug cartels are winning, the people are losing.

Them, and Big Pharma too (though I suppose they could be called a drug cartel too!). The bankstas surely must be profiting from it somehow.

[Jumbo Shrimp]

I'm wondering if anyone has seen the guy in the interview's film: The House I Live In

I'm going to try and see if I can watch it online. It looks really good, won an award at Sundance. http://www.thehouseilivein.org/

Edit: nevermind, "IN THEATERS OCTOBER 5". gonna look for a screening in my area for this weekend!

[Zippyjuan]

Touchdown! How many points do we have now? How does one "score" in this?

[Working Poor]

As much as I would love to smoke pot I cannot because I feel like I would be participating in this awful war on some level. I think they are winning and I wish to encourage people to stop using pot until it is legal. I think if people stopped buying the illegal drugs it would hurt so bad they would be forced to make them legal. To keep using is playing into their hands.

[libertyjam]

Them, and Big Pharma too (though I suppose they could be called a drug cartel too!). The bankstas surely must be profiting from it somehow.

"The International Monetary Fund estimates that the amount of money laundering occurring on a yearly basis could range between 2 and 5 percent of the world's gross domestic product--or somewhere between $600 billion and $1.5 trillion. Estimates come from a variety of sources based upon both macroeconomic theories and on microeconomic approaches. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has suggested that $600 billion represents a conservative estimate of the amount of money laundered each year, and some U.S. law makers believe that, not only does the amount lie somewhere between $500 billion and $1 trillion, but that half is being laundered through U.S. banks. Due to the clandestine nature of laundering activity, governments and concerned organizations cannot accurately quantify the amount of money laundered each year. Some estimates suggest that the amount of money laundered each year is approximately $2.8 trillion, an amount more than four times greater than the figure generally accepted." Source: "Money Laundering", FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin v.70 no.5 (May 2001): p.1-9

[Lucille]

TY, libertyjam!

[dannno]

How does one "score" in this?

Whoever does the most drugs, wins!

[jkr]

drugs?
i dont know...

the war on the cannabis plant?
they are

[Zippyjuan]

Whoever does the most drugs, wins!

You are definately beating me! Guess I need to get cracking! Now where did I leave that pipe...............?

[liberty2897]

I think whoever was growing these lost in the war today...
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/chicago-police-find-about-1-000-marijuana-plants-in-city-1.4070097


CHICAGO - In Chicago, a bustling urban metropolis where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room to grow something a little more organic: Marijuana.
The plants grew even taller than the tallest Chicago Bulls. However, just days before the crop on a chunk of land the size of two football fields would have been ready to harvest, a police officer and county sheriff's deputy in a helicopter spotted it as they headed back to their hangar about three miles away.
...

Superintendent Garry McCarthy, whose officers are more used to intercepting shipments of marijuana grown elsewhere or discovering hydroponic growing operations inside buildings, said the discovery of the marijuana is significant in a larger fight against street violence.

Street violence? Huh?

Kinda reminds me of Ricky's crop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NWemhfqlWM

[edit]
quick question: How much would this crop be worth if it was turned into biofuel?

[Anti Federalist]

Government, the police state and drug cartels are winning, the people are losing.

Second post wins thread.

[Indy Vidual]

I think whoever was growing these lost in the war today...
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/chicago-police-find-about-1-000-marijuana-plants-in-city-1.4070097
....


http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.4070136.1349295502!/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpeg

PAnderson 4 hours ago
I heard that when they burn the evidence Pink Floyd is going to reunite.

[farreri]

Reactionary soccer moms.