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Intelligence. The DEA has more offices around the world than any other arm of the government, and a lot of information other intelligence agencies use comes through them. Any country agreeing with our morbid ideas about the drug war gets a nice new shiny DEA bureau, which is just another way for the CIA and other agencies to operate there as well
Duterte has also admitted to killing drug users himself, throwing some out of a helicopter, and also riding around on a motorcycle looking for drug users to kill just to show local police its possible. He also admitted he's addicted to fentanyl
originally posted by: GoShredAK
a reply to: underwerks
Duterte has also admitted to killing drug users himself, throwing some out of a helicopter, and also riding around on a motorcycle looking for drug users to kill just to show local police its possible. He also admitted he's addicted to fentanyl
That just figures....so I guess he'd be cool with being murdered for no reason while he's already dopesick and miserable.
originally posted by: GoShredAK
a reply to: EightAhoy
So do you think Trump is for or against the war on drugs?
originally posted by: GoShredAK
a reply to: EightAhoy
So do you think Trump is for or against the war on drugs?
originally posted by: underwerks
It's nice everyone having hope, but seeing as how he appointed a drug war dinosaur like Sessions as his AG, I don't see anything changing for the positive.
The best we can hope for is that nothing changes from how it is right now. And that in itself is terrible to me.
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originally posted by: EightAhoy
originally posted by: GoShredAK
a reply to: EightAhoy
So do you think Trump is for or against the war on drugs?
Haven't seen any nominee info for Administrator for Drug Enforcement Administration. Sessions as AG nominee doesn't necessarily signal Trump embraces a ham fisted approach. Trump is on-record regarding legalization of cannabis by suggesting it is state responsibility. It was, however, cleverly couched as a question as in something like "Doncha think it should be up to the states?" Clever non committal answer?
But the issue is more complex than the phrase "War on Drugs" can capture. That is such a tiny silver of the broader issue of drugs, cartels, gangs. And I think he's smart enough to understand it isn't whether or not use is criminalized or decriminalized, but rather why and how is it arriving in the first place. He knows it isn't an end-user issue, but a supply chain issue.
I see Trump hyper focusing on countries contributing to the trafficking by incentivizing host countries to handle the problem, internally. And not simply by throwing millions and millions of dollars earmarked for drug suppression this-or-that at the countries.
Here's a single visual aid that amplifies the trade of one product into the U.S. Black arrows = seizures up. Red arrows seizures down. Does Trump think a Wall will solve all of it? Will it solve any of it? (Source below) His brain is wired for business, not for government. His solutions may or may not retard the problem but it will likely focus on the suppliers, the border, and points south.
DEA's 2016 National Drug Threat Assessment doc isn't pretty.
The report -- all 194 pp. -- gives a broad overview of all the facets of this War on Drugs. The only positive news I gleaned is that cartels are losing business owing to legalization in certain states. But, those same cartels are quickly adapting to drop in revenue flows of one product by creating new avenues of revenue, including, 1) an increase in trafficking into the U.S. of that which was popular in the 80s and 90s (after having experienced a marked decline over the past two decades); and 2) an increase in poppy farms in Mexico.
Oh, another positive appearing in the report is the drop in daily usage of most drugs by 8th, 10th, and 12th graders.
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