Research into the war on drugs



I watched this video which explained the necessity of  not using a hardline approach to the war on drugs as it won't work. Drugs are going to be consumed, but in situations where education was used as an approach it was a lot more successful at reducing drug consumption. 


Drugs.

1971 - Nixon started a war on drugs
mass incarceration, violence, 

fuelled powerful cartels

no drugs = no problems

eradicating drug supply 
if you reduce the supply without reducing demand, the cost will go up. Drugs will be consumed no matter the cost

the effect is to encourage more production which in turn creates more supply

made meth production more professional and more potent. 

the us government has a 1% effectiveness in stopping drugs from entering


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