Drugs are bad M'kay!
- Thread starter AronSearle
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So where does the profit lie
The 1.5 trillion is total spending over 40 years, including prison and enforcement costs. I don't know if the yearly figures are inflation adjusted.
But the point of the chart is that all that money, and what we have to show for it is....
Gangs, people in jail, users criminalised, meth, 50,000 bodies in Mexico over 6 years, drugs that are often spiked with crap, and....
The same level of drug use.
And before joe-90 asks, yes I would like to see kids given cocaine lollipops for breakfast and hash brownies for desert.
The graph isn't a very good representation of cost vs addiction. All it realistically shows is that between 1% & 2% of the US population over 40 years have a drug addiction.
The cost isn't a very good representation if it doesn't take into account inflation.
Nor are the % population much use as the country has approx. 100m (50%) increase in population over 40 years too. A graph given the total addicts vs the cost PA (corrected for inflation) would imo be a much better representation, along with a representation of population.
The cost isn't a very good representation if it doesn't take into account inflation.
Nor are the % population much use as the country has approx. 100m (50%) increase in population over 40 years too. A graph given the total addicts vs the cost PA (corrected for inflation) would imo be a much better representation, along with a representation of population.
And it's U.S. ffs 
Yea, that's kind of the point, 40 years of "war on drugs" has done the square root of nothing.
Already answered that, the 1.5 trillion is the total spend.
You can't inflate away 1.5 trillion.
libby lou lou said:
You think US policy doesn't affect us?
Oh you!
Norcon said:
Err, the point is that criminalising drug use doesn't have any real impact on usage levels, so this cost would not be changed up or down.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/15/decriminalise-drug-use-say-experts
And go look at the netherlands and portugal, more "legality" of drugs but lower usage rates.
