Drug War Costs: Like Burning Money

The DrugSense Drug War Clock is soon to be moved to our coming new section: The Failed War on Drugs.

The Drug Clock has been up at the original DBKP site at Blogger, almost from the very first day we started.

Before we moved it--at an undetermined future date--we decided to feature the popular Drug War Clock in a post. The clock keeps track of the approximately $600 per second spending racked up on the War on Drugs.




Money Spent on the War on Drugs This Year.

Just like burning money.

by Mondoreb
image: targeted distribution
Source: DrugSense


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U.S. CONTINUES DRUG WAR: Govt. Puts Americans in Jail-Americans Keep Taking Drugs

[Above: US Officials Debate War on Drugs strategy.]

By Mondoreb

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Monday again placed Venezuela in the bottom rung of nations that have ''failed demonstrably'' to curb drug trafficking, but gave Bolivia a passing grade.

It was the third straight year that Venezuela was deemed as having done too little in the fight against illegal drugs. Myanmar, as Burma is now called, is the only other country that shares the designation. Both are barred from receiving certain kinds of U.S. aid.
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TRYING TO REPEAL THE LAWS OF SUPPLY & DEMAND
After almost forty years of trying to control the chemical preferences of Americans, the US government is still hard at work: jailing it's own citizens and when that doesn't work, strong-arming countries for succumbing to capitalism. When it's clear that you can't stop demand, US Drug officials go to work on the equally impossible task of stopping supply.

Otherwise law-abiding Americans, with families and jobs, lose their homes, reputations and savings in this increasingly madcap attempt to Nazify drugs. The Nazis used the Jews as scapegoats, to shoulder blame for Germany's ills. Richard Nixon did much the same, at the height of Vietnam anti-war protests, with his "War on Drugs".

After 35 years of Americans paying taxes to put themselves in jail, it is apparent this is another of those jobs that government does not do well. Stop the Drug War madness today--and reap the benefits tomorrow.
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The Biggest Bust: The War on Drugs

By MONDOREB

America has had a "War on Drugs" since the Nixon administration, based on prohibition and criminalizing drugs. That policy has drained hundreds of billions from our economy, driven drug traffic underground, and raised the price on a commodity that otherwise would cost pennies. Domestically and internationally our "War on Drugs" policies are not only a dismal failure, they produce the exact opposite result. Paul B. Farrell wrote the above words in a MarketWatch piece earlier this week.

No matter where you turn these days, one can find an honest assessment of the War on Drugs. It's the longest-running war in USA history, surpassed in length and futility only by the equally-inane War on Poverty.

With no end in sight, billions spent, thousands imprisoned and make-work jobs in the Federal bureaucracy its only victory, the War on Drugs is another stark reminder of a governmental nightmare in action. "Regulating U.S. citizens' chemical preferences" is just another example things government doesn't do well.

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