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UN: war on drugs has failed completely (news.un.org)
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The UN human rights chief has called on leaders and international stakeholders to radically rethink global drug policy, stating that the decades-long “War on Drugs” approach has “destroyed countless lives and damaged entire communities”.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Depends what the goals were. I would say it has been wildly successful at de-registering would be free-thinking and minority voters. It’s been very successful at heavily funding police departments. Successful at growing the prison population, making a lot of money for shareholders off slave labor. It’s been successful at protecting profits for big pharma, when opium is pretty easy to grow and probably a much safer pain killer than fentanyl. Overall it’s been a pretty successful program.

Only way to make it more successful is if white folks could be made immune to drug addiction so it only destroys minority communities.

Yeah so maybe it hasn’t reduced the harm caused by drugs, but that was never the goal.