America's Longest War

Can you guess?



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http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/09/doc ... r-war.html

Gonna have to see that one, thanks for posting it.

Heisenberg wrote: Gonna have to see that one, thanks for posting it.

One of the few issues where I see bipartisan agreement among the political class.

Think of how much money has been thrown into THIS war. It's probably 10x what we've spent on all other wars combined if you factor in everything from advertising, to enforcement, to prison costs.

Who Started the War on Drugs?

by Keith Humphreys

As President, he dramatically reduced federal criminal penalties for marijuana possession and launched the largest expansion of drug addiction treatment in U.S. history. I refer of course to Richard M. Nixon, who is today widely remembered as the President who launched the “war on drugs”. Why are his well-documented progressive drug policies almost completely forgotten today, leaving us with a collective memory of Nixon as the original snarling drug warrior?

In part, the mythology is unsurprising in that all aspects of our political history are subject to stereotype, forgetting and distortion. Why should drug policy history be immune? To cite another choice example, Dr. Jonathan Caulkins points out that if we wanted to get back to the rate of incarceration the U.S. had under the “tough lock ‘em policies of the Reagan administration”, we would have to release about 75% of the people who are currently behind bars.

The misremembering of Richard Nixon also stems from the “war on drugs” increasingly becoming a term that is used to mean almost anything and therefore means almost nothing. To some the “war on drugs” means the violence in Mexico, to others it means no knock raids and other aggressive policing tactics, to still others it means even applying the usual medical regulations to those pharmaceuticals than can be addictive (e.g., painkillers). If we can’t agree on what the war on drugs is, then we can’t of course figure out who started it.

http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/drug-p ... -on-drugs/

We're talking about the war on drugs.

Ambassador Stevens is still dead.

Pay no attention to Raees - he's just coming out of an all night session in the echo chamber. He's been trained to respond a certain way to certain phrases. You just caught him and his programmers off guard this morning. He'll be back in a little bit to actually respond to this topic once he gets back from the chamber with the proper responses loaded into his RAM.

I actually copied Blazer Bob's standard "echo chamber" response to every thread. He's a conservative.

But thanks for playing.

I noticed you also went back and wholly removed a previous response and made it completely disappear. Reminds me of people disappearing from photos when they disappear from society.