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VOJNA s drogami (The WAR on drugs with Clifford W. Thornton Jr.)
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Pinky interviews Clifford W. Thornton Jr. about the reasons why the war on drugs completely failed.
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- I have the opportunuity to do a short interview with Mr. Clifford Thornton Jr on the subject of the WAR on drugs
- What is happening with the drug situation is that
- every year the total for drug arrest goes up.
- And the reason for that is that more and more people are starting to use drugs.
- The last statistical analysis taken by the UN says
- drug use has risen over the world something like 12 percent,
- especially among young people.
- And see, one of the reasons why people like myself do the work we do
- is because we understand that.
- And young people, if we can cut the number of young people getting into using drugs,
- then we have a better chance of stopping people from going on into harder drugs.
- And understanding that young people get into drugs basically through the illegal drug market,
- that is, through marihuana.
- What we want to do is legalize marihuana outright to cut the access.
- Most people don't realize that
- what we have in place right now with the war on drugs and drug prohibition
- is that we have a very liberal market.
- and what that means is that anyone that wants to secure the drugs can get them.
- And we're talking eight, nine, ten year olds.
- And it is much harder to find, or buy or purchase alcohol and cigarettes
- because those drugs are inside of the law
- and they are easier to combat and come down on proprietor selling the illegal to young people.
- So to answer your question Pinky,
- those figures have been rising from the last 15 to 20 years when they started taking statistics on that.
- And its gonna get exceedingly worse.
- And the main tenets of the drug war is first of all,
- to interdict as many drugs as possible,
- to drive up the price so people can't regularly secure these drugs
- and secondly to keep them away from our children.
- Those two main tenets of the drug war has absolutely failed.
- FAILED
- So the question we should be asking is this:
- Do you think it's a good policy to have a rate of interdiction of less than 10 percent
- and spending 50 billion dollars for 90 percent failure rate?
- Is that a good, proper vision?
- And when we loook at the overal situation of this Pinky,
- and talk about how drugs proliferate in this society,
- we have to understand and ask two questions:
- Do you think that the war on drugs is worth?
- and secondly, more important question:
- Do u think that people will ever stop using these drugs?
- Drug war has absolutely failed.
- FAILED
- Let's create a simple equation, Pinky.
- One one side you have the drug dealers and the drug cartel.
- And we're talking about a worldwide economy,
- according to UN, of 600 billion dollar a year, underground illegal drug market.
- On the other side of the equation you have the authorities,
- you're talkin' about the prison system, you're talkin' about the lawyers, the doctors, the urine industry,
- you're talkin' about all of the counselors that you need, so forth and so on.
- Both sides are depend upon each other for their existence!
- Because what keeps them in place, in the middle of this equation,
- are the laws governing drug policy.
- The drug policy keeps these both sides of the equation in business.
- I don't go talk to people expecting them to change their mind.
- What I do expect is the information that I give them
- is now for them to put this infromation through critical thinking.
- Critical thinking is something that is lacking in today's society.
- It's more or less a immature reaction to problems and so forth.
- Again, when you talk about radical or revolutionary things, you're only talking about one thing:
- the redistribution of income and wealth.
- And tha'ts what people are most afraid of.
- AFRAID OF


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