Tell Me About the Political, Enviromental, and Economical Implications the “Drug Wars” Have Caused.?
Question by it’s_me: tell me about the political, enviromental, and economical implications the “drug wars” have caused.?
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Answer by Joe H
The war on drugs is very old and the lessons learned were lost unless you are looking at creating fear and a police state.
Its first version was call prohibition, and that turned the Mafia from small local criminal organizations into huge organizations with huge resources.
If a population wishes something trying to outlaw it is useless, in fact it worse than useless, as there are those who normally would not break the law that will break it to feed their need.
Once a large portion of the population no longer feels that the law works for them, they will start wondering about other laws.
It creates a lawless portion of the population.
This in turns is used to get more cops, prisons, and less civil liberty, less personal freedoms.
A large percentage of the population wanted alcohol and they would do what was need to get it and did not care who provided it.
During the Vietnam War various agencies wanted to promote their agenda and normal funding was not enough for their plans, so they took the other major export from the area, opium, and its refined products, morphine and heroin, and sold them.
Those sales started and created a market, organized crime was willing to fill the void, and while the war was active everyone turned a blind eye.
Once the war was mostly given up on and the plans had failed, the need was still there and there was no war to fuel a weapons based economy.
So a new market had to be created, a new war, the war on drugs.
New weapons, chemical defoliants, such as Agent Orange were used to deny cover to the enemy, now used to kill poppy fields.
If addiction was the enemy and the effects of that are victims and fallout, then the war on drugs is the exactly wrong way of going about it.
It failed on prohibition and is failing now.
If you wish to create fear and have a war that does not end, that can be fuelled and make the home front in your home town streets, the war on drugs is just the thing.
Eventually that is being replaced by the war on terror.
The whole process does three things very well.
One it creates a us vs. them process, so debate is stifled and if anyone tries to question why things are being done you are a traitor, a commie or terrorist.
Two is it drains economic resources so there is less for social services and other things that balance things out.
It creates a process where the war on communism/drugs/terror resources cannot be questioned and the government’s decision cannot be questioned because it would mean tax increases, and tax cuts are need to try to get more jobs in trickle down (being pissed on is also a trickle down as well).
Three is creates a continuing sense of fear and doom.
We must be continually protected, more police, more cameras, more home security, more gated communities that detach themselves from the rest of the city at large.
It removes the sense of community so the people are not encourage to get to know your neighbour, because if you do know your neighbour you will care what happens to the neighbour and the neighbourhood as a whole.
The end result is eventually destruction of the middle class being part of the process.