Thread: Billions spent enforcing drug laws have little effect
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Old 08-06-2017, 11:52 PM  
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Billions spent enforcing drug laws have little effect
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Illegal drugs remain widely available despite the billions of pounds spent trying to enforce laws prohibiting them, according to an official evaluation of a government anti-drug strategy.

An estimated £1.6 billion was spent on enforcement in 2014-15 but the study said that actions by the police and other arms of the state had little impact on availability. ?It appears that drugs are still widely available to those who want them,? the cross-government audit of the effects in England of the five-year 2010 drug strategy concluded.
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Whilst accurate figures are hard to come by, global spending on drug law enforcement certainly exceeds $100 billion each year. Given current economic conditions it is more important than ever that spending is effective and not a waste of taxpayer money.
Guess how much the War on Drugs costs US taxpayers each year

Does that include all the money to prosecute and imprison?

We have lost the war on drugs, but waste billions fighting.
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