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Originally Posted by slapass
It has broken even at worst. You can still get drugs. Crime is down huge. No really a failure.
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The crime rate has steadily declined over the last 25 years and I'm sure the war on drugs has had some part to play in that if nothing else simply because more drug users and dealers are going to jail for longer periods of time.
There are many experts who also say there are a lot of other factors.
To me, it is still a failure because pretty much anyone who wants drugs can get them without a whole lot of trouble and the number of addicts hasn't really gone down. Right now we are in the middle of an opioid addiction epidemic with many of those people turning to heroin.
So it might not have been a catastrophic failure, but it has been a pretty big failure.
IMO we have to stop looking at it like a crime problem and start looking at it as a healthcare issue. Instead of going after dealers, we should be focused on helping addicts get treatment and get off the drugs. Kill the demand and the supply will go with it.