Why We Lost The War On Drugs

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[@Tormekia]

They use the word "war" so police can play soldier.

[@ErutaniaRose]

For real. Honestly, most of the things the US gov calls war is just their soldiers or police going to harm POC for resources or money. 🙄🙄 This country is burning.

[@RebelNutts-gg1xf]

Who's here will call them over a f****** noise complaint?

[@AnthemUnanthemed]

actually they used the word war so they could rally to fund a new agency to deal with what they saw as a threat, literally yes, they used the word war to make a propaganda mouthpiece and enforcement agency called the DEA

[@sophiepooks2174]

@@RebelNutts-gg1xf Depends on the noise, but all violent, inconsiderate thugs who use violence and scary noises to intimidate decent people just trying to live peacefully, or invade their right to safety, peace of mind and privacy don't belong in a civilized society.

[@patricklynch9574]

Then the Geneva Conversation should apply. POW

[@mantella5189]

the most American thing ever is calling it a "war" just because the main targets are poor people. government is so unhelpful sometimes smh

[@MeBeCreepy]

Have they called what they are doing with the homeless crisis the war on homelessness yet??

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

☝🏾 🇹 🇭 🇮 🇸 ☝🏾

[@smartass0124]

So destruction of everything is to support the demands of Freddy poor people

[@smartass0124]

The homeless crisis is from the family court . Feminism. Female supremacy

[@DrizzyB]

​@@MeBeCreepy they should considering how much being homeless is criminalized in America lollll

[@saininj]

Congratulations to the drugs for winning the War on Drugs.

[@gabrielmaroto18]

Everyone check out the movie kill the Messinger starring Jeremy Renner Rest in peace, Gary Webb💐

[@bentramer682]

In the war on drugs I'm choosing the side of drugs

[@gabrielmaroto18]

@banquetoftheleviathan1404 I wanted to try acid ones, but my friend said I wouldn’t recommend it. Her cousin went on a trip once and hasn’t come back yet. She’s in the crazy house or insane asylum, loony bin. I don’t know the correct term. I should learn it, my sister said the people with the butterfly nets are gonna come and get me any day now.

[@TomfooleryOfTheTrolls]

@@bentramer682Makes more money

[@Nwakaego_]

😂😂

[@suhanhwang9988]

Long story short: The War on Drugs is less "war on drugs" and more on "war against anyone without a 401(k)".

[@erictheredguy]

I have a 401k and consider myself war'ed on! War on middle class too

[@russellharrell2747]

It’s always been the haves vs the have nots. They own stuff but can’t make money on it without serfs, so they need us, and they hate us for it. As soon as autonomous robots are a thing we will be redundant in every way, as far as they are concerned.

[@Johnrl21]

I would advise getting a 401k then.

[@echoawoo7195]

And ADHDers who want access to cannabis, not amphetamine salts.

[@ErutaniaRose]

@@echoawoo7195 YUP! I'd add autistics too, since weed can help with sensory regulation as well. As someone who's both, AuDHD, it works wonders to help me study, take tests, and manage chronic pain.

[@scorpionxiiclips]

Prohibition doesn't work period. In Canada we legalized weed and prostitution and it has had nothing but positive outcomes.

[@Zetirix]

Portland, Oregon: Hold my beer.

[@Zetirix]

San Fran: Hold my needles.

[@Zetirix]

Thailand: Hold my pipe.

[@mikey-wl2jt]

​@Zetirix lol you know nothing about Portland or SF

[@21forevergone]

Everyone knows the media amplifies negativity ​@@Zetirix

[@0utJ4nd3r]

My D.A.R.E officer in central IL; Gary Wroan, embezzeled hundreds of thousands from the program.

[@jimbucket2996]

So one person benefited from that program.

[@tylerclark5086]

If it makes you feel any better I looked him up and he’s dead now

[@ErutaniaRose]

@@tylerclark5086 😂😂

[@sanhakim1335]

Honestly, he was probably doing the kids a service

[@AnyaChristinaEmmanuellaJenkins]

Fun fact: He 💀 two years ago.

[@randymarsh8974]

D.A.R.E also taught inner city (black) children what drugs looked like. And the officer would give the kids their number. To then go home and search and identify drugs. And report their parents, landing them in foster care. “To help their families”.

[@indigopines]

That's just actually evil 😧

[@user-ih1tj2er4b]

I remember they brought all the different drugs to class and the policeman showed us what they looked like and their names . They then asked us if any of our parents used drugs to raise our hands so they could get them "help". I was in the 4th grade in North Florida. 1970's

[@MacyP]

A lot of countries did that back in the day, not targeting minorities but just drug peddlers. Americans will make anything up in their head for a narrative

[@AnthemUnanthemed]

@@indigopines theres stories of them arresting kids at school

[@triedntrueiam]

It is recruitment. People knew it, especially once they got caught up in the system and started seeing it more and more. They were creating snitches or rats. It made the homicide rates go up. And, if you did make a mistake while young and had to do ten years or more in prison; it screwed with your mentality, increases difficulties, and limits opportunities. I've seen it over and over again. Born in WV and a DC resident for decades; I have seen some mess. My dad and his friend used to grow weed together. His friend became law enforcement, and my dad did time. My dad isn't living anymore. He had multiple heart attacks after his white baby momma took his son and property and left him with nothing. I only met my dad once. He told me never to smoke anything harder than weed. I listened. I don't even like to drink. I just hope that my half-brother is okay out here in the world. He would be a young adult now. Money is a necessity to live. But, getting money can also become an addiction. The drug war didn't fail. It did what it was supposed to do. Just like the influx of immigrants.There is no choosing parties; if you truly look at their works.

[@bluegold1026]

End the War on Drugs and begin the War on Greed.

[@kayallen7603]

like that's going to work when all other 'wars on x' haven't?

[@MrERLoner]

Good luck

[@theprogressiveatheist7024]

But we could fill the prisons with rich people while we’re at it.

[@billmozart7288]

I dunno, Amerca's wars on concepts seem to only create more of the things they're against.

[@ErutaniaRose]

@@kayallen7603 Maybe it would work if people lead it instead of the nutters in the Gov who deny the reality of US citizens lives and hardships just to get donations from corporations.

[@progressivestuckinidaho4779]

I remember when the "Just Say No" campaign began. I was about 7 years old. They told to snitch on family members, especially our parents. Which is probably why our generation, gen x, aren't snitches.

[@mikey-wl2jt]

as genx addiction counselor can confirm

[@britzene]

I had no idea you guys were encouraged to do that. You are the second person to mention something about encouraging children to snitch on family. That is fucked up.. Kids dont even know what the consequences of something like that are. I had dare in like 2001 in the outskirts of Cleveland and just remember singing a song and learning why to not do drugs.

[@progressivestuckinidaho4779]

@@britzene oh ya, when they brought drugs in, they made us smell them, & told us that if we smelled that, at home, we HAD to tell. It was insane

[@intuitionz1198]

make that three, I had no drug addicts in my family but I had friends and we were all given the same speech.

[@BillyBasd]

​@@britzenemy dad countered that at an early age, about 7-8, by telling me exactly what would happen if I did snitch. He and mom would go to jail, my siblings and I would be split up in foster homes for a few pot plants. Sure gave me an intense mistrust of authority figures outside the home.

[@raymondbarkoski300]

We lost when we first called it a war.

[@erickalear7609]

For many years, addicts in rehab were told, "insanity is doing the same thing over, expecting different results." Exactly how gov't has treated fighting drugs in America. There's no law or order that will stop people using a substance to relax or forget; it's why Prohibition will always be a failure in any form.

[@Jake-mv7yo]

Selling drugs is a victimless crime which is why it is so hard to enforce these laws.

[@scottplumer3668]

I think it's a case of responding to a public that's too stupid to think of a better solution.

[@Member_zero]

@@scottplumer3668 well what is your solution? Let's hear it.

[@scottplumer3668]

@@Member_zero Hell if I know. To clarify my point, the public at large responds more favorably to things like increasing penalties for drug offenses (or any crime) than they do to measures that actually reduce crime and drug use before it starts, like addressing systemic poverty, poor education and lack of mental health care. If any public official suggested something like that, they'd be written off as a socialist. Of course, doing that stuff can take a generation or more to be effective, whereas increasing penalties take effect immediately, i.e. within a politician's term of office.

[@Member_zero]

@@scottplumer3668 True. Poverty is a big issue. But that is a problem that was never solved in the entire history of human civilization so far. Now the preventive measures that would reduce drug use are being implemented. But a lot of people - even right here - don't want them. For example - one such measure is the reduction of drug availability. Or attempt at that. This is the reason of increasing penalties - specialy for sellers of drugs. It's not a "punishement" as such. It's about preventing people who might want to take drugs, to have easy access to them. Then there are information campaigns at schools and children groups as well as media to spread awareness about drug adiction. These are also not very well recieved. And I tell you why. Because people don't want to stop taking drugs. Not realy. The goals of the government and the people are not aligned. Government doesn't want people to take drugs. But people want to take drugs legaly. Those 2 goals are different. It is why the "preventive" measures don't work.

[@ashleydavis2355]

A friend from college could still fit into his 5th grade DARE shirt when he was ~23. His favorite thing was smoking pot while wearing it. He giggled every time😂

[@randomshorts6862]

😂 thats 💯 hilarious 😅 😂 ♡♧☆♧

[@chris9898776]

We need to decriminalize all drugs. There’s no reason anyone should go to prison for using or selling drugs. After all, no one is arresting alcoholics or Anheuser-Busch.

[@JayBee-cr8jm]

Lots of alcoholics get arrested.

[@chris9898776]

@@JayBee-cr8jm not simply for consuming alcohol or having it in their possession. World of difference.

[@bchristian85]

Won't happen in our lifetimes. The Southern Baptist Convention is too entrenched in American politics and law.

[@Qball409]

Yeah…ask Oregon how well that worked. They’re screaming to recriminalize. Google the stats and see for yourself.

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

​@@JayBee-cr8jmYou're missing the point. Unless you are selling to a minor, nobody gets arrested for simply consuming or possessing it.

[@CedenoJose]

Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, alcoholism, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.

[@DellyAlava]

Congrats on your recovery. Most people don't realize that psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives.

[@HelgaKlein-vq1zy]

To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.

[@Mihkel-km9fw]

Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in Norway. Really need!

[@DellyAlava]

Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.

[@FelipeHidalgo-sd7nu]

Shrooms saved me from meth addiction too. Psychedelics could really help addicts a lot!

[@Chihirolee3]

Addiction makes money, and capitalism thrives on using any means necessary to make money.

[@ErutaniaRose]

Yup. Exactly why they don't care about preventative care in any way and would rather let people be desperate and clinging to life before they give help since it makes more money for them. It's evil.

[@Jake-mv7yo]

The thing though is that the war on drugs destroys money. We spend about $50 billion per year enforcing these laws and all it does is make it so criminals can get easy and reliable income. Then the criminals take over neighborhoods and drive down property values. The labor of the gangsters themselves is also a loss. They should have real jobs. The addicts would be addicts either way so I see the drug gangsters as the greatest victims of all in this. They were hopeless and saw this as a way to make it but like any other pyramid scheme most don't.

[@Member_zero]

@@ErutaniaRose I disagree. Because what is the "preventive care" in this case anyway? It's banning and restricting certain drugs and make them illegal. It's an attempt to punish sellers and importers of drugs, so that people would not have access to them. Thus preventing them for falling into adiction. Preventive care. Ofcourse you would not stop everyone. But just look at the cigarette example. In the 50's they were promoted heavily and you could smoke everywhere. No restriction. But in modern days theres a lot of restriction on cigarettes. And you can see a lot less people smoke.

[@rustomkanishka]

It's been 50 years since the War on Drugs started. Drugs seem to be winning.

[@thunderblade1995]

I can’t lie I always thought your intros went kinda hard but adding the voice over to it makes it go like 10 times harder.

[@johnnytr0uble]

Lost 10 years of my life because of opiods. The trauma, the arrested development, and the lasting health effects are things I will probably never recover from. I don't blame anyone for my choices. But these companies are not making it easy to try and get better. Then we add on the stigma of drug addiction. All because I was prescribed pain meds for my wisdom teeth. Fuck, ok rant over.

[@boogiemcsploogie]

Been there as well amigo, hope you're doing alright now

[@johnnytr0uble]

@boogiemcsploogie Let's say I'm better than I was while actively using but not as good as before I was using if that makes sense

[@mikey-wl2jt]

❤

[@angelsunemtoledocabllero5801]

Why didn't you think to just say no? Now the cartels control México for people like you.

[@ElektrOpium]

I highly doubt your health problems have anything to do with the opioids themselves. Opioids are literally less toxic on the body & brain than alcohol. Look up "Swiss Heroin prison study" and you'll find a study where they gave inmates heroin daily for 15 years & observe ZERO adverse health effects. I'm happy to post think the link myself but every time I do, YT deletes my comment. I've used opioids for 20+ years, including heroin. And I've had no health problems from them. No other class of drugs helps my major depression (which comes with body aches & pain) better than opioids. Yet they're increasingly harder to find now & you risk death from crappy fent. So you can literally drink yourself to death with alcohol & that's fine, but if you want to enhance the quality of your life with an opioid, suddenly you're a "criminal" who "needs help". I highly implore you to study pharmacology & biology, because you'll find that most opioids (with the exclusion of a few that aren't really used much) aren't even toxic to the body. Sure they're addictive & you can OD on them (you can also OD on water, but I don't see anyone campaigning to criminalized water), but the same can be said about a million other things that are completely legal & socially acceptable. It also doesn't help that we live in an ignorant society that thinks alcohol & fast food is "safer" or "better for your" than opioids. It also doesn't help when people like yourself push this idea that opioids just totally destroyed your health when it's more likely that whatever else you were doing destroyed your health. I'll forever have a lower quality of life thanks to our tyrannical government & a society that believes in myths about opioids.

[@deadeaded]

The reason nothing has changed is that most people care more about punishing "bad behaviour" than actually solving problems. We see punishment as a deterrent strategy. They see it as the end goal.

[@dennisyoung4631]

That’s an Authoritarian way of thinking…

[@drewharrison6433]

The worldwide drug trade os about a $32 billion business yearly. Wage theft in the US alone is a $50 billion business. One is heavily prosecuted with stiff prison sentences The other is barely prosecuted and a fine.

[@mikey-wl2jt]

a thousand times this. capitalism is a cancer.

[@Buttercup697]

Cite your source. This sounds off

[@drewharrison6433]

@@Buttercup697 I think it is off. I am pretty sure about the wage theft number. I saw it in several sources. The drug trafficking number is from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime but since your comment, I saw several other numbers much higher. Some say as high as 650 billion. This is a good example of two things. One, KZbin comment sections are not a good source of information. Two, fast, half ass research is also not a good source of information.

[@PinkPony_]

It's no joke, I'm lucky to be alive, now I'm 13 months clean

[@mikey-wl2jt]

fuck yes, well done!

[@theriveroftruth]

congratulations!!! 🎊

[@tayzadayzah6681]

So proud of you 😊

[@indigopines]

That's wonderful! 🎉

[@Eveonline100]

congratulations

[@wendyfairfull8967]

Another side effect from the war on drugs--it's difficult to get a prescription for opiods. I have chronic pain. I once had an emergency room doctor walk in, and before he even introduced himself he told me, "I'm not giving you opiods." It was so humiliating. I hate being treated like a pill seeker.

[@ElektrOpium]

Ironically, opioids are less toxic on the body & brain than alcohol too. Anyone who knows anything about pharmacology & biology knows this. So you can legally drink yourself into an early grave & that's legal, socially acceptable & encouraged at every store/business. But if you want to an opioid for pain or to enhance the quality of your life, suddenly you're a "criminal" who "needs help". It's complete hypocrisy.

[@persomnus]

I had to let them stick a wire through my skin and vertabrea and leave it for three days for an implant trial before doctors even started to take my pain seriously. And even then I still have to fight to have enough pain relief to live rather than just survive laying in bed.

[@scottplumer3668]

I work in a med school. They have a whole day's worth of lectures and stuff on opioid prescribing. They can lose their license if they prescribe them wrong, so a lot of them just refuse to.

[@Jake-mv7yo]

@@scottplumer3668 Yes the whole thing is demented. I had to go through the black market because I had a herniated disc and all they gave me was gabbapentin. I couldn't get any sleep at all.

[@genericamerican7574]

I have CRPS 2 from an eight inch intradural ependymoma. I know what you’re saying. They don’t care if you black out trying to get out of bed. I have been bed bound since 2017. I don’t know what to do. I hope you have better luck than me. 🖖🙃 I am struggling to not despise humanity.

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

_The War on Drugs_ during the Reagan and Clinton eras was some vile stuff. Sure, Nixon was the catalyst for that style of _tWoD,_ but Reagan and Clinton were exceptionally horrendous with it. Well... Clinton was an extension, and uptick of Reaganism in every sense of the word.

[@brentwalker8596]

The difference is that Reagan truly believed that a "war on drugs" was the correct and holy thing to do, while Clinton pursued it mostly for political survival.

[@faustinreeder1075]

Clinton took cocaine money. Smuggled the drugs in through Mena, Arkansas.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

Nancy Regan had her “drug free class of 20000 initiative too I graduated in 99 but still saw all the weird pressure they put on the class under me. They ended up using more drugs than kids my age

[@andreabrown4541]

That part. Democrats conveniently ignore that they, too, were complicit in the "war on us." Us being black America. So no self-respecting black person should trust any Democrat who says they want to learn from history after failing this history test. But since they will ignore this history lesson, they have put themselves in a catch-22. Ignore the drug crisis in this country, it will get worse. Attend to the drug crisis in this country primarily because it affects white America, they will be part of the system in systemic racism against black and brown communities.

[@disinterestedhomo6002]

For narcan, the reason a lot of people get up swinging is because it sends them into "precipitated withdrawal" by kicking all the drug molecules off the opioid receptors in the brain. So basically you go from passed out high to in intense withdrawal and it can be very painful/intense/stressful/disorienting. Also the reason u might have to give more doses is bc once the narcan wears off, they can still have the drug in their system and it's possible for them to go back into an overdose. That's why you should call 911 if you have to narcan someone

[@tdsollog]

The wall won’t help… The call is coming from within the house. 🎉

[@julietfischer5056]

The people championing the wall seem to think that drug smugglers are dumbasses who haven't worked out all manner of methods for transporting their wares. No drug lord with any sense would give thousands of dollars of illicit drugs to migrants. Not when so many die on the way or could be turned back or arrested. They use tunnels, drones, minisubs (seriously), hidden compartments in legitimate shipments. Hell, they've used rockets and trebuchets to launch drugs. And even if we did somehow hermetically seal the borders, home-grown criminals would step in to supply the demand.

[@SasiponPanavaravatn]

This video indicates you don't need a high IQ to be a good investor, just 2 qualities, self discipline and a lot of patience. Investing is mostly about behavioral psychology. How can I generate more income to retire with at least $3m for long term care?

[@FreestyleJameZ]

investors like you should be cautious of the bull run, its best you connect with a well-qualified adviser to meet your growth goals and avoid blunder.

[@AdamWright8fool]

It's unfortunate most people don't have such information. I don't really blame people who panic. Lack of information can be a big hurdle. I've been making more than $45k passively by just investing through an advisor, and I don't have to do much work. Doesn't matter if the economy is misbehaving, great wealth managers will always make returns.

[@SasiponPanavaravatn]

I've been looking to get one, but have been kind of relaxed about it. Could you recommend your advis0r? I'll be happy to use some help

[@AdamWright8fool]

I've experimented with a few over the past years, but I've stuck with the popularly 'Leah Foster Alderman' for about five years now, and her performance has been consistently impressive. She’s quite known in her field, look her up.

[@SasiponPanavaravatn]

Wow, her track record looks really good from what I found online. I'll take a chance and see how it goes. Thanks for the info

[@jonstrickland4848]

My heart goes to those struggling with addiction. That said I believe in bodily autonomy. Sure there's a problem but when America corrects a problem, we seem to over correct hurting people in need of certain drugs.

[@britzene]

I agree, Someone who eats their way to diabetes, heart disease, or super morbid obesity is treated. They have a disease. They even get food stamps that they can use to buy more crap. Someone with a drug addiction gets jail at worst, and at best they can sometimes get medication. Access to treatment depends on location, money/health insure, and just luck sometimes. With zero help getting the medications that have highest success rates. Addiction can be treated, just like any disease

[@FireElement7]

Thank you!

[@janea4777]

That’s why they made narcan unavailable for the poor. They like who’s dying.

[@julietfischer5056]

Some of them really do think that Narcan 'encourages' drug abuse. Just as they think contraceptives encourage sexual promiscuity.

[@scottplumer3668]

There's a county sheriff in Ohio who said he'd fire any of his deputies who carried Narcan with them. I think you're right.

[@julietfischer5056]

@@scottplumer3668- There are also silly moralists who think Narcan and contraceptives encourage immoral behavior.

[@dennisyoung4631]

It’s perceived as a means of “purifying” society, e.g. “Social Darwinism.”

[@scottplumer3668]

@@julietfischer5056 True!

[@thoth_amon]

“Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.” ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

[@paulrodgers252]

Drugs is a Thing; going to War against a Thing is like War against a EF4/5 Tornado: WTF were you thinking?

[@yournamehere4790]

Didn’t our last president consider nuking a hurricane? I feel like that’s something I remember.

[@paulrodgers252]

@@yournamehere4790only if it was located in a civil control area and City; civil or military is establish in Amendment XIV Section 3 since 9 July 1868; civil is the (left) not right;

[@FireElement7]

Thank you. Well said!

[@narrgamedesigner2747]

It was to criminalise black segregated areas by going after what drugs they were using...

[@paulrodgers252]

@@narrgamedesigner2747civil or military? since those 3 Words are establish in Constitution Amendment XIV Section 3 since 9 July 1868; the Acts were illegal against United States citizens: plain and simple;

[@janetmccausland8953]

My husband passed away recently after a 6 yr battle with lung cancer. The only thing the medical community has to offer patients in extreme pain are these drugs. With their decreasing effectiveness, patients easily become addicted. The drug companies, who've made gazillions from these drugs, blame the patients. I'm not saying it would resolve all the problems associated with these drugs, but finding other ways to treat pain, other than these drugs, would help.

[@AnthemUnanthemed]

it seems that the drugs needed or the science needed to be done around pain to properly understand it, have also been seriously limited by the scheduling, while it is better in other countries, america has lobbied for most world governments to make access to chemicals for research extremely difficult, costly, and time consuming, while not really raising research budgets since serious criminalization. But also, theres a reason these drugs help, not a lot of people want to admit it, but one of the proposed mechanisms of action for some pain relief is genuinely having enough of an intoxicating effect to ignore it, which people dont like the idea of, somehow people expect that all pain receptors in the body can just shut down for a bit, and people just dont work like that

[@imarobobot8795]

My mother is battling the same. The doctors keep throwing Morphine and 10mg Oxys down her throat when she's not even in that much pain. My mother's worries about becoming addicted, yet she refuses to try cannabis (which has personally helped me with my herniated disc) because it's the devil's lettuce

[@janetmccausland8953]

@imarobobot8795 I'm sorry about your mother and what she's going through, but "devil's lettuce!?" Funny! But I know it helped my husband, but also allowed him to stay awake and aware. Thank goodness it was legal for medical use in Florida.

[@oisinm332]

Another reason I'm glad I went to school here in Ireland instead of America. What an insane country.

[@michaelcondron1304]

Some of your videos should really have 10x the views they get. Your fact-based, unbiased explanations of history and how laws affect us on a day to day basis are invaluable.

[@grapeshot]

I grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s and I remember the War on Drugs very well more like a war on black people because they showed us no mercy. But I remember when the opioids came out that language went from war to crisis and it was all about rehabilitation now. Didn't hear that word in the 1980s

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

I always bring up the story of my 5th grade D.A.R.E. classes. They were run by a county sheriff's deputy, who made drugs sound amazing. For awhile in adulthood, I just thought it was straight up incompetence. The more I learned, and of course with hindsight being what it is... I eventually came to understand that, that was more than likely intentional. We were one of our county's "Black schools", I remember friends I'd met later on in middle school sharing different experiences. People I both met & reconnected with later on in life online after I'd met that went to the "white schools" had a completely different experience as well. And now of course, knowing the devastating impact of the crime bill & NAFTA mixed with welfare reform... It definitely felt like a war on our communities. A war against the working class for sure. A working class of which we (Black people) make up a large percentage of.

[@JayBee-cr8jm]

It was a war on single parenthood, not blacks. We know who does drugs and it the kids who don't have a father in the house.

[@doubledge6579]

And they say Obama didn't do anything for us. Fair sentencing act. 2016 Cures Act that congess didnt support. 1st president to visit a prison in U.S. Trump tries to take credit for that since he ended up signing the justice reform act.

[@marcietownsend3635]

It was engineered to pump up the Prison Industrial Complex and slave labor rented out to corporations. 13 Amendment. I get tired of people who don't understand how deeply organized crime rules our lives and our government. I lived a few years in Baltimore, MD and then a few years in Medellin, Colombia and witnessed both sides of the tragedy.

[@gabrielmaroto18]

Because it was not a war on drugs, it was a war on people!

[@MomirsLabTech]

Hey Leeja im sure you saw the SCOTUS ruling, just curious if youll be providing your take on it in the future? Thanks for helping those who have not been through formal law education navigate our unprecedented times.

[@DracoGalboy]

Love how Mia the bot stole this, has more interactions, and just.. 😞 RT's KZbin

[@tsuritsa3105]

Leeja, I'd like to hear your take both on SCOTUS's presidential immunity ruling and the Chevron ruling. Both of these strike me as absolutely disasterous.

[@ookamiblade6318]

It should be noted that the reason Chinese laborers were associated with opium is because after Europe started to realize the negative effects of smoking opium on the populace Britian forced the trade of opium on China through smuggling and one sided trade negotiation through military might despite Cihina’s efforts to ban the import. Sounds kind of familiar if you follow the war on drugs.

[@osurpless]

Yep, and they wanted tea so much they were willing to become drug dealers to get it…

[@penelopeanne79]

My dad was an alcoholic with severe back pain since he was in his early 20's. By the time he passed away last year at 65 of a massive heart attack he was on so many opioids, including fentanyl, that his quality of life was abysmal. Had my mean as conservative mom just let him smoke pot it would've allowed him comfort and peace, maybe lengthened his life. Now my brother became a Dr np and specializes in cannabis care for the geriatric populations, get them out of a big Pharma's pocket before they die. Damn 😢

[@ElektrOpium]

Cannabis increases your risk for a heart attack by 25% for up to an hour after smoking. Opioids don't have any correlation with heart attacks. So there's a huge problem with uninformed & uneducated people speaking about opioids as if they're so toxic, while promoting something like inhaling combusting plant matter as an alternative. Don't get me wrong, I'm for legal cannabis & legal opioids, but I see so many people spouting myths & falsehoods about opioids that it really grinds my gears. It also perpetuates the drug war by pushing misinformation. More people die annually from alcohol than any other drug. And most opioid "overdoses" are typically poly-drug overdoses or accidents. Someone with an established tolerance to opioids is unlikely to just OD if they take a little more. They would have to intentionally take a super large dose. You can also OD on water, if you drink too much water it can throw off your electrolyte balance & be fatal. So should we criminalize water too? Or should we educate people instead? I've used opioids for almost 20 years & they've caused my zero health issues other than the occasional constipation which can be treated. I've also never once overdosed, but I educated myself on how to use opioids & how to avoid fentanyl. Most street-drug users aren't being educated on what to look out for or how to use safely. My quality of life is actually LOWER when I can't use them.

[@TechBearSeattle]

I wonder what it's like to live in a sane country. I bet it's nice. Maybe, someday, I will find out for myself.

[@NoNope956]

D.A.R.E ... That was effective huh? 🤦‍♀️

[@theboyisnotright6312]

Hey it was handy in identifying the drugs you were buying. A lot fewer kids got ripped off on their first buy😂😂😂

[@MyLoganTreks]

Thank you Sackler Family and Lobbyist

[@Zetirix]

And all those Congress members who profited.

[@lagringa7518]

Right on target as usual Leeja.

[@Mach11976]

I lost 4 of my veteran brothers and sisters to Od or suicide. I battled for 18 years with drugs, to be completely honest there is not a damn thing that can be done. I've seen it first hand and folks it's not good. I now have almost 7 years clean, but I had to almost die to get here. Shout out to Bay Pines VA Staff for not giving up on a hard head.

[@EilonwyWanderer]

Ahh yes, the War On (some classes of people who use some kinds of) Drugs! That went... poorly.

[@gaberobison680]

We lost it by making the world so awful that people actually have a reason to sue drugs. The sentiment wasn’t bad though, drugs are dangerous and should not be taken lightly and society was way too lackadaisical about them but we absolutely went about smiting street drugs wrong

[@rogaldorn4759]

That's a perspective that'll foster ignorance to a dangerous degree. Few drugs are fully understood, and many have immense potential, whether in applied neurology or modern and more developed psychiatric medicine. Compare potential side-effects of neuroleptics for example, which can ironically include worsened and more frequent seizures, or certain mood stabilizers, which are known to sometimes put people into states of constant suicidal thought by screwing with their already diverse neurochemistry too much. Take intolerances into account, and most generally prescribed medication has just as much potential to cause harm to the directly affected, as well as to bystanders, as a result of commandeering vehicles or dangerous machinery.

[@tylersingleton9284]

War On Drugs was the same as War On Terror. Artificially constructed.

[@EricMcbride-mm5bu]

In my personal opinion... This video belongs in the Smithsonian.... For all future historians.... Great job you broke it down... plain and simple

[@marinschuldt101]

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mikey-wl2jt]

M110 in oregon was sabotaged and hamstrung from the jump. it was condemed to failure, like almost all harm reduction programs everywhere

[@Mia-xu9zn]

Hey Leeja im sure you saw the SCOTUS ruling, just curious if youll be providing your take on it in the future? Thanks for helping those who have not been through formal law education navigate our unprecedented times

[@imarobobot8795]

Why did you copy/paste someone else's question verbatim? You didn't even bother to remove the two line breaks

[@DracoGalboy]

​@@imarobobot8795 🤖🗯️👁️‍🗨️🤖

[@Balls308]

@@imarobobot8795its a bot

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

People do drugs to escape reality. My drug is Disco, and dancing. Dancing to me is like standing still, only faster - Fernando

[@patcaza6166]

BAM! Leej does it again !

[@kriegmesserdclxvi2833]

It's like watching prohibition all over again. Bring on the bathtub gin.

[@AngelMary]

That's basically what this synthetic fentyal is equivalent to is bathtub gin. That's why it's so dangerous. Real fentyal isn't this deadly. 😢

[@dirtyhiggins5484]

Bathtub Gin by Phish is a great song

[@brandyhenderson]

Why We Lost *the* War *on* Drugs

[@smartass0124]

Same reason we lost war on poverty. We give free money 🤑💰 to those who give to drug cartels

[@oasntet]

@@smartass0124 Yeah, because drug dealers take SNAP and EBT. Sure.

[@rogaldorn4759]

​@@smartass0124 Your username is ironic at best.

[@Rustea314]

No. the republican war took the vote away from millions of Americans and that was the goal'

[@gr33kb0i]

“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” “Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.” - Donald Trump

[@billmozart7288]

He was talking to Duterte, right? Congratulating him for killing drug dealers?

[@crumblytoast]

the point you made about not expecting sometime who's come-to after overdosing and being given narcan and they may not be appreciative of that is important. in EMS, we're taught to not have our back against a wall when we administer narcan, and to make sure we can jump out of the way if the patient starts swinging. cuz that definitely does happen and it's not too uncommon. but for sure if you give narcan, stay by the person until help arrives, put them on their side if you can, and pay attention to their breathing

[@britzene]

It is interesting that cocaine and opioids are classed as the same. I did coke on and off for years with no issues. The first time I tried oxy I was hooked. at least mentally if not physically yet. I worked 60 hours a week in a restaurant, had an apartment and a stable life. The only crime I ever committed was buying and having drugs. I have never stole a day in my life. This is probably true more often than not. I completely recognize the privilege I have being a white women. I almost always had some on me, but I was never stopped and searched by police. There are probably tons of people in my same place, minus the skin color, who have a criminal record now. Just for having drugs and not committing any other crimes. I have been on suboxone for 5 years and am about to graduate and apply to grad school. If you have a criminal record, you cant work for colleges which is where the majority of my money comes from. Drug addicts arent inherently bad, and drugs dont make you do crime. Addiction is a disease. Crime is (usually) a choic

[@dugannash9109]

The reasoning behind scheduling never made much sense to me. Congrats on graduating and good luck with grad school!

[@AnthemUnanthemed]

Correction at the end, crime is a choice when the option between hurting others to/and saving yourself starts to be floated If all people were comfortable enough live their lives crime wouldn't be on the table

[@dirtyhiggins5484]

I'm glad Suboxone helped you, it helped me too. I am so thankful I went through my program. It helped me help myself.

[@sinisterintelligence3568]

"The War on Black People" fixed the title for you. (Not being a wiseass.)

[@mikey-wl2jt]

💯

[@pmpowalisz]

African Americans were getting screwed long before the war on drugs, and the completely failed war negatively effected all poor communities in the US, not just African American ones (their communities were just the biggest so they stood out more).

[@sinisterintelligence3568]

@@pmpowalisz That's true.

[@jeaninebaunsgard6609]

Thanks for your informative direct and concise information. I really appreciate learning about past history that affects us today.

[@Skip6235]

It’s simple: society, and especially politicians, do not see the victims of the opioid crisis as humans, let alone as citizens worthy of their respect and protection

[@McMomfaceplustwo]

On the flip side, pain patients that could be successfully treated and maintained with opiates/ opioids are left fighting the system as if they’re criminals and unable to work or care for their families because of untreated or under treated pain. There’s never a good result to broadly applying racist, ill advised policies.

[@MegaDoomWaffle]

I had to do the D.A.R.E stuff in like 2001. Got a dare shirt and we had to march around the neighborhood chanting "proud to be drug free!"

[@GrandduchessAnastasia-ko5rg]

Did it work ? Are you still drug free?

[@theriveroftruth]

need a trigger warning every time i see regan

[@mattslater167]

You began with that "shady things" segue, and I immediately started thinking, "what a great way to pivot to a pitch for glasses!" But it was not to be.

[@viaxxl]

legalize then control it

[@bododird]

hate 2 be that way but correction @ 26:57, Heroin was the trade name under which Bayer marketed the drug diacetylmorphine (diamorphine), a semi-synthetic opioid. A better comparison here would be to use codeine phosphate or morphine sulfate.

[@yoweedmofo19897]

Quite true. I think ppl tend to group diacetyl with opiates because the acetylation reaction is a relatively small step from morphine, akin to refinement of coca; conversely e.g. the thebaine to oxycodone synthesis is only really seen in the pharmaceutical industry, so the product is more squarely seen as semisynthetic. And it doesn't help that what was often sold on the West Coast as diacetyl was really unreacted morphine and 6-monoacetyl. But the distinction does get at the way perceptions form around drugs based on, in this case, how and by whom they are produced, rather than how and by whom are consumed.

[@phantasmagoria7033]

Hi! I love your channel and the issue you cover and how you do so. I’m super super grateful that you made THIS specific video as the teen child of someone who has faced such issues. Any attention like this brought towards the issue brings us all closer to being informed and working from there. I’m glad you mentioned the part about after trying to help an addict to not expect them to “thank you, give you a hug, and skip off to the nearest rehab.” Getting an addict help can be difficult, possibly costly, and definitely scary, especially if it’s a loved one. I feel as though the reactions that people get when being pleaded to seek treatment often deter people from trying to help addicts and further demonizes them in the public. The more awareness to how people get in these situations and why they react the ways they do to being offered treatment, the more I feel as though it may change the public’s opinion and hopefully lead to more sympathy and desire to help the ever growing issue :)

[@BillyBasd]

I'm sad for you. I hope your parent can get out of criminalization and into a medication assisted treatment with Buprenorphine because those WORK. Abstenance only is not helpful, it is damaging in many ways.

[@peinek]

With administration of Narcan, also be aware if the person is a long-term user of opioid or opiates they go into withdrawals right away, so they are going to report being in pain, being cold, and shaky. These are normal reactions, and the best thing you can do is just make them comfortable until help arrives.

[@Allie-ye8oe]

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[@cali-cm1xp]

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[@cali-cm1xp]

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[@Asad-qs4ji]

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[@mariage-pf6rr]

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[@trumpfailedhaha816]

I like to listen to you in the background. I heard the name Anslinger and threw my playstation controller. Just hearing his name invokes my rage.

[@mikey-wl2jt]

Legit

[@Tatianabella45]

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[@Hannahbrigs]

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[@EvelynSalgado-eb7kz]

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[@Tatianabella45]

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[@Tatianabella45]

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[@Alicescotty]

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[@RAJohnson181]

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

[@MxFourhournes]

I recently retired from the Army. Their Army Substance Abuse Program STILL states that Cannabis is a gateway drug.

[@marketingmark9992]

Portugal took the approach to combat over use of drugs, they didn't throw people in jail they sent them to rehabe centres, they didn't consider the possession of drugs a crime, this initiative reduced addiction rate nd the crime rate, nothing at all wrong with a drug as long as it is taken in moderation

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

We lost because of the hard work and bravery of the men and women on the frontlines fighting for drugs. Thank you for your service! o7

[@VincentValentine33]

I was born with Epilepsy. Before it became legal for medical reasons, My Neruologist and I played musical chairs with various medications to get the seizures under control. When our state legalized Marijuana for medical use, My Neurologist got me the card and ever year he renews it. I got the card in 2019 and started smoking. Because of it, the last seizure I had was in Nov. 2020, I'm in less pain from injuries I got to my knees as from sports, and I was able to wean off of medications that were making me sick...such as Klonopin.

[@kewldude23xx]

What you resists persists. The "war" shouldn't be on drugs but on WHY people are using drugs.

[@TheAsvarduilProject]

But that's (whiny voice) haaaaard! (/whiny voice) Also that requires both work and empathy.

[@Arcanismedia]

1) decriminalize drug use and possession. 2) many schedule 1 and 2 drugs should be strictly regulated and monitored. Methamphetamine shouldn't be legal to purchase at a gas station, but a specialty vendor should be able to deal clean, tested, and safe product. 3) Resources and ending the stigma around drug use is important. Shaming people for using drugs leads them to hide its use even when its problematic. Providing everyone with comprehensible medical care and coverage, including substance abuse would go a long way in helping people connect with aids to break addictions. 4) I have been using drugs recreationally since I was a young man. Harm reduction is something i take seriously. Sobreity is sexy. At no point should anyone ever feel pressured to use a substance they do not want to use. However, people will use drugs. Teaching people how these chemicals metabolize in our systems, how to use safely, and how to handle aftercare is way more important than teaching people abstinence only.

[@waxon2]

Fact: Humans have used plants and plant derivatives throughout our history for mental and physical health. Fact: The church and the State have used tyranny and draconian laws throughout history to limit human access to medicinal plants and natural healers and midwives. Fact: Prohibitions on plants, fungi, and their derivatives have only worked to criminalize supply chains and usage and have drastically increased associated danger due to unknown purity and dosages and risks from concomitant crime.

[@deventate9142]

"We DARE to keep off drugs, we DARE to just say no, we DARE to make this pledge, DARE tells us so, it's alright to say no!" 20 years later and I still remember that song 😂

[@russlintz2340]

Thanks Leeja. I'm so glad to hear someone sum up this subject in a way that puts it in order chronically and factually. I've always known what I thought about it but it is nice to have it laid out in a way that most people can understand ❤

[@TheTonySRich]

yeah stopping people smuggling drugs over the border in a backpack is way more important and effective than stopping drugs that are being smuggled in shipping containers

[@SlickSimulacrum]

Or on C-130's "borrowed" from the Forest Service, by the CIA... -Webb

[@OG-1400]

The war was lost largely because it was aimed at young blk and brown men ,and in turn allowed the cancer to spread unempeded throughout wht American suburbs

[@notrandom2]

"the other side would be worse" IS NOT A JUSTIFICATION! It is not a motivation to vote for "the lesser evil".

[@KingOfMadCows]

Carver : You can't even call this shit a war. Hauk : Why not? Carver : Wars end

[@LeejaMiller]

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[@smartass0124]

How do tax breaks cost country if it's in same and just Birth rates prove baning fetuscide does stop fetuscidd look off records of government revenue government revenue increases with tax cuts

[@ElektrOpium]

Thank you Leeja for doing this episode. I am some one who benefits from opioids in a major way. My quality of life without them is garbage. I find it complete hypocrisy that you can legally drink yourself to death with alcohol but using an opioid to enhance the quality of your life makes you a "criminal" who "needs help". Look up a Swiss study on diacetylmorphine in prison inmates. I can't leave the link here because YT just deletes my comment. But they gave inmates diacetylmorphine daily for 15 years & observed ZERO major adverse health effects from it. If you know anything about pharmacology, you'll know that there is nothing inherently "toxic" about activating your mu receptors. Although I disagree with you that opioids are the "most dangerous class of drugs". That's just simply not true. Alcohol kills more people annually than any other drug & is directly toxic to every organ in your body. A person can use opioids their entire life & never have any brain or organ damage. The same cannot be said about alcohol use. Not to mention all the corporations that get away with poisoning our food, water, air & planet with zero consequences, but it's a "crime" to put what you want into your own body. Either way, I thank you for tackling this topic. Most people don't care about this topic at all, yet it is truly a bodily autonomy issue. So I appreciate that. Take care.

[@Alalias]

Spamming your own comments section?!? I guess if you're gonna do it, doing it on your own videos is probably the least inappropriate way to go, but it's still inappropriate, it's still annoying, and it's also off-topic.

[@captainkirk4514]

As a father of a child who was a cocaine adict, Leeja is right. My daughter has said it many times that these drugs are everywhere. In rural areas, big cities as well as affluent suburbs of America. Drugs are not just confined to the slums and the ghettos, which reinforces the fact that the 50+ years of the war on drugs is a miserable failure. Instead of pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into an unwinnable war, that money should be put into rehabilitation programs to help adicts get off drugs like cocaine, heroin, and fentenal. Sending adicts to prison is not the answer. Our government needs focus on treating the addiction. As long as there is a demand for drugs, there will always be someone there to supply that demand, no matter what laws the government passes, or how much taxpayers money they want to throw at stopping the drugs from coming into the United States. Oh, and I happy to say that my daughter has been clean for over 13 years, why? It wasn't because she was sent to prison, she entered a treatment program, it may not work for everyone, but it sure save her life.

[@erictheredguy]

Oxy was sooooooo good before it went rubber. Seriously. 😊😊😊

[@boogiemcsploogie]

Dude I barely remember the early 2000s😅 it was crazy

[@kreed3494]

Biden needs to be replaced with another candidate

[@petervizzini4006]

Little late for that

[@Hawkguyy]

Drugs every day win the war on drugs. Latin America to this day feels the consequences of the violence it generated.

[@DaHitch]

“I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it. What does THAT tell you about drugs? Some smart, creative people on that side. ” - Bill Hicks That's a quote from 30 years ago and it still applies today.

[@marinschuldt101]

I LITERALLY have lost 2 people and my best friend was revived TWICE!!!!!! HE DIED TWICE!!!!!!!!!! HIS DOCTOR GAVE HIM ENOUGH PILLS TO KILL HIM!!!!!

[@thunderblade1995]

I think your framing of how the CIA was involved with Nicaragua is slightly incorrect. There was no legal way in which the CIA could’ve received funding from the government to be able to facilitate that coup because it would’ve had to be run through Congress. so what they had to do was import the cocaine produced in Nicaragua and sell it into impoverished black and Hispanic communities to be able to fund that. Given the attitude of white America at the time it was very easy for it to be dismissed uncritically by implying it was a flaw inherent to those communities. I think the framing that it just so happened that the CIA funded a coup and then Nicaragua just happened to sell a bunch of crack cocaine into the US. I think is a tad disingenuous. I think it gives too much freedom for the culpability of the CIA not to be interrogated.

[@PhilipRhoadesP]

Another excellent podcast Leeja! Love from Australia!

[@dustinfuselier3375]

You are always on point. Thank you for doing what you do and no doubt opening eyes. Love this.

[@kenny87ification]

That is furthermore the reason as to why America should embrace Hindu values

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

Pakistan zindabad

[@kenny87ification]

@@jeffersonclippership2588 So you want to further go downhill

[@jrsydvl7218]

Evangelicals will love the caste system.

[@petervizzini4006]

​@jrsydvl7218 Says someone who knows nothing of evangelism

[@chriscasperson5927]

Reject all false mythologies. Including yours in particular.

[@Christian-ip3vz]

That's why Joe needs to go.

[@fighttheevilrobots3417]

Nope. That's why fascists like Trump need to be stopped.

[@brandyhenderson]

@@fighttheevilrobots3417 Joe needs to go. We don’t care where he goes, but he needs to go.

[@sevensongs]

Yes. But not for Trump to come back in. Right now that's the choice we face. 🤮

[@brandyhenderson]

@@sevensongs I don’t mind if he comes back. The country was running smoothly when he was in office. (I’m aware that 99.99999% of the people on this channel disagree.) We don’t have to like his personality; we just need our country back.

[@sevensongs]

@@brandyhenderson Yes, I very much disagree and would argue the country was not "running smoothly" and that the federal government was in even more chaos than usual during his tenure. That said, I am far more concerned about the long term effects on the courts than of any specific policy of his. The reality is much of the damage is already done, but yes it can get worse and I have no doubt it will in a second Trump term.

[@madmyc6836]

Just want to clarify No one has ever gone blind from making bathtub moonshine. It is a misnomer. What happened is that some really shitty people trying to make a quick buck cut their alcohol with industrial methanol and that is why people went blind. The amount of methanol produced from alcohol production is minor and can easily be siphoned off before collecting the alcohol. Even if the methanol is left in it isn’t enough to do anything more than cause a bad hangover. Beer and wine contain the same methanol and because it isn’t distilled the methanol is left in and no one is going blind from drinking beer or wine.

[@SP-ml3bs]

Many people get into drugs because they are in chronic pain: either physical, emotional or both. Last week I was very sick and had all over body aches for a couple of days and took OTC pain medication (IB Profin) and I remember thinking that if I felt like that everyday, I would need something stronger than pain medication I could get at the grocery store and that I would probably take it everyday. I have compassion for people in chronic pain and understand how an addiction may take hold. I wish there was a cure for pain, but criminalizing people is not the answer! Thanks for the video.

[@julia1992]

I love it how consistently you diss on Reagan! 😂 It’s like he’s becoming a mascot for this show

[@ThousanWhite]

Well, at least the war on drugs gave us rap music