Comments on: Trailer for Breaking the Taboo: documentary about the disastrous results of the war on drugs

By: Diana C

Diana C — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:42:00 +0000

This is not about just decriminalization, but rather Getting Help for a drug addict for recovery. Tjis would reduce murder,prostitution burglary etc. How many millions of tax dollars would be saved if we did not have to pay to keep addicts imprisoned

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:02:00 +0000

Oh they realize it. The whole war on abstractions thing is just to keep the corruption going and people too worked up to be able to End it.

Then again look at the 1800′s. Just as corrupt as now.

By: Braden O'Guinn

Braden O'Guinn — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:01:00 +0000

This society is too freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

By: malcolmkyle

malcolmkyle — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Both the Taliban and the terrorists of al Qaeda derive their main income from the prohibition-inflated value of this very easily grown crop. The coca plant experiences a similar transformation and traject. This means that Prohibition is the “Goose that laid the golden egg” and the lifeblood of terrorists as well as drug cartels everywhere. Only those opposed, or willing to ignore this fact, want things the way they are.

* Without the legalized regulation of opium products Afghanistan will continue to be a bottomless pit in which to throw countless billions of tax dollars and wasted American lives.

* The hopeless situation in Afghanistan is helping to destabilize it’s neighbor, Pakistan, which is a country with nuclear weapons.

* The civil war in Mexico has deteriorated so badly that it is bordering on the farcical.

There is nothing conservative about prohibition. It enlists the most centralized state power in displacement of domestic and community roles. There is everything authoritarian and subversive about this policy which has incinerated American traditions such as Freedom and Federalism with its puritanical flames. Any person seeking to insure and not further compromise the safety of their family and of their neighbors must not only repudiate prohibition but help spearhead its abolition.

“Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy … and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with ‘scientific support’ … fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others.… The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.” – William F. Buckley, commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495

By: donovan acree

donovan acree — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:12:00 +0000

What gets me about the drug use of our last 3 presidents is that had they been caught, under the laws they support, they would have been arrested and possibly jailed, ending any hopes of political advancement. In other words, they have admitted committing crimes which would preclude them from ever being president.

By: ethicalcannibal

ethicalcannibal — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:22:00 +0000

Thanks! I wasn’t sure if that meant another trailer, or info packet, or what. I guess I just didn’t consider a full release on Youtube.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:28:00 +0000

I hope that one day politicians realize that a noun can’t sign a peace treaty.

By: Lithi

Lithi — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:56:00 +0000

In a few years time a documentary like this will come out, but against the War on Terror.

I predict by the next Presidential election the gubmint’s just gonna declare us all terrorists. Repression, ho!

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:45:00 +0000

Right, so there’s another reason to end the police state.

By: Darcy Fitzpatrick

Darcy Fitzpatrick — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:09:00 +0000

It says at the end of the trailer: December 7th on YouTube.

By: Jardine

Jardine — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:09:00 +0000

Violent crime only requires people, illegal drugs have to be smuggled in from outside.

By: ethicalcannibal

ethicalcannibal — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:45:00 +0000

When and where can one see this? I couldn’t google that info up readily.

By: evets32

evets32 — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:27:00 +0000

To be fair, they can’t stop violent crimes in prison, either, so that rhetorical question doesn’t strike me as the strongest argument for decriminalization.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:47:00 +0000

The last three Presidents (at least!) used illegal drugs at some point. Even the people waging this war don’t believe their own rhetoric.

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:17:00 +0000

More drugs per capita in than out.

So, yeah. That!

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:16:00 +0000

“If you can’t control drug use in a maximum security prison how could you control drugs in a free society?”

I guess you could try not having a free society but that…wait…oh. OH.