naisho
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WHAT? Did I say Nixon ended war on drug era? Nope! I didn't say that, he is the ONE that started the war on drug ERA during 70's, made heavy campaign to convince Americans into thinking since we are bringing Vietnam war veterans back with bunch of dangerous dope which is mostly heroin, he actually made congress fall for it and passed law, Nixon had no problem with signing, The beginning budget was passed with small amount, I can't remember and it was not that a lot but enough to start DEA business. It was all because of Heroin that vets brought back here and Nixon was referring Marijuana as equilvent or gateway to Heroin. What A BIG FAT LIE!
During 80's the prison population mushroomed, the demand for new prisons skyrocket during 80's to the point where state government realize they can't afford expand more so that was during early 90's causing some state deciding to relax the drug laws and ignored Federal drug laws. Now two states have passed to repeal the Cannabis prohibition, more to follow soon.
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My biggest concern is Meth, if we don't legalize Cannabis we will see more of Meth coming up and it is killing us. Meth is far worse than Heroin.
This is part reason why I realize that having bigger government is not working and it is hurting us more than good. We had great years and that was before JFK ERA.
Nope, you didn't say Nixon ended the war on drug era. I'm saying you go back a lot in past history and give those examples but I don't think you can apply that to policies today.
You are a history buff, you have good examples on history like prohibition and Nixon, Reagan administration blunders or past that was overhyped. Lead to drug bans and incriminating of drugs. It's not incorrect, you have a point.
Nixon's reasons were pretty simplistic, he did it for too simple opinion (as you have stated):
- Drugs are bad, addiction is bad, Hippies are bad.
Very generic and pretty simpleton reason, not enough to convince someone today about banning drugs. Of course, I agree with that it is not a good reason and very basic without proof, like saying "Deaf do more illegal activity than hearing, therefore we arrest deaf" - bad stereotype.
What about today's policies. Are you saying that Nixon/Reagan's reasons are the reason why we have War on Drugs today? Sure, they started it, but no way, I disagree with that reason they are the only reason why we continue to have the Drug War.
Here's one example. It didn't take until when Reagan term was almost over that they decided in O'Connor v. Ortega in 1987 Read this case here that behavior of an government/important position employee is subject to drug testing because they can endanger the people in their line of work. Did you know the details about this case? This is 16 years after Nixon proposed War on Drugs, 6 years after Reagan proposed zero-tolerance drug policy. War on Drugs include this USSC case now as one of the reasons why the law enforcing agencies will continue to use it for their battle against drugs.
2 years after O'Connor v. Ortega, it got specific to why drug use in federal workplace is illegal in National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab of 1989 Read case here. This is already wayyy after Nixon AND Reagan administration. It is Senior Bush's administration now.
It's a strong reason - it's a pretty bad decision to legalize drugs for someone in an important position who kills someone else due to that bad decision.
You wouldn't want your family's surgeon to be taking drugs the day before your operation, would you?