Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs
by Zigurd on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:12PM
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> Unfortunately there are a lot of people who wouldn't drive to a seedy neighborhood and risk arrest to secure drugs, but who would take drugs if buying them were cheap and safe.
The evidence is, based on heroin use among white people, that nobody needs to drive to a "seedy" <cough>black</cough> neighborhood to get heroin.
And never mind driving! These people are using a needle drug which entails risk of hepatitis C, AIDS, etc. Is a lw goinf to deter them?
Yes the Drug War was created with malice. Just not "groundless." The grounds were to continue Jim Crow by other means. The Drug Warrors are an expensive evil.
The evidence is, based on heroin use among white people, that nobody needs to drive to a "seedy" <cough>black</cough> neighborhood to get heroin.
And never mind driving! These people are using a needle drug which entails risk of hepatitis C, AIDS, etc. Is a lw goinf to deter them?
Yes the Drug War was created with malice. Just not "groundless." The grounds were to continue Jim Crow by other means. The Drug Warrors are an expensive evil.