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The continued epidemic of drug use means we've lost the war on drugs
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| Disagree | 42% | 250 votes | Total: 599 votes | |
| Agree | 58% | 349 votes |
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by Kevin Pack
Created on: June 17, 2007
Stating that we have won or lost the war on drugs is suggesting that this issue can be easily defined
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Created on: January 20, 2008
Prostitution is the oldest profession. It is still around, has been since the beginning of time and
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by Peggy Molloy
Created on: August 03, 2007 Last Updated: August 01, 2011
The war is against our society, it began in the sixties, and I remember Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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Created on: September 10, 2007 Last Updated: November 06, 2007
Is there really a war on drugs? Or are there those who condone drug use and those who don't? We are
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Created on: February 02, 2008
Saying that we've "lost the war on drugs" is to completely misunderstand the nature of drug use as a
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Created on: September 06, 2007
I disagree, mostly because we never were fighting a war on drugs. We fought a war against poor small-time
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Created on: September 10, 2007 Last Updated: March 03, 2008
Lost the war on drugs...
Who's fighting the battle, the parents or the children?
In my opinion, the war -
Created on: July 27, 2007 Last Updated: February 15, 2009
A 2008 Brookings Institution report contradicts U.S. claims of heroin and cocaine use declining as a
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by Foxbaron
Created on: September 06, 2007
We haven't lost the war on drugs because we never really started.
There never was such a thing as a war
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by Bill Whitney
Created on: September 06, 2007
Drug enforcement is now and always has been a joke. If we fought the war on drugs with one thousandth
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Created on: September 24, 2007
To legalize, or not to legalize,
That's the deception.How do we get involved in discussions when the
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Created on: October 10, 2008
Actually we've already won the war on drugs. And who could have thought it would be as easy as a simple
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by Charlie H.
Created on: June 27, 2007
Though I may generally disagree with the "War on Drugs" in the first place, I also disagree that "the
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Agree
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Created on: June 19, 2007
We officially lost the "war on drugs" in 2001. You can't blame September 11, even though many Americans
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by Nouri Arif
Created on: June 22, 2007
The war on drugs was lost the day it began. The main reason for the failure of this "war" was the basis
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Created on: May 05, 2010
There has always been an intriguing sense of cynicism that comes to my mind when I think about the countless
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Created on: July 19, 2008 Last Updated: January 25, 2011
Drugs have been around since the beginning of time. God made certain plants solely for the purpose of
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Created on: March 01, 2008
In this day and time there is a "War" being fought against any and everything, but there are absolutely
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Created on: December 31, 2010
The United States’ “War on Drugs” has been and will continue to be a failure. Thus
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Created on: June 11, 2009
The "war on drugs" is over and the trumpets of history are sounding a sonorous and woeful song of defeat.
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Created on: June 06, 2009 Last Updated: February 17, 2010
The Slogan, "War on Drugs" is dehumanizing, misses the boat, the point, and is offensive to the recipient
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by David Young
Created on: October 01, 2008
It has been said that the United States has never lost a war unless you count the debacle that was Viet
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by R.A. Scott
Created on: June 04, 2009 Last Updated: September 03, 2009
America went through a period when there was a war on alcohol. That was a glorious failure, as we all
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Created on: August 08, 2007
The war on drugs is inane. The very concept of criminalizing what a person puts into their body is a
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Created on: August 02, 2007
The US government's so called war on drugs is a war being fought against a major section of the US economy.
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Created on: March 19, 2010 Last Updated: March 26, 2010
We are losing the war on drugs! Recently, three people working for, or married to employees of the U.S.
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by Julie Dancer
Created on: July 04, 2007
America enjoys declaring war on concepts, whether it's "War on Terror" or "War of Drugs". Some might
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by Feed your head with a play by Pamela Olson
Created on: March 03, 2009
Professors Or Prison Guards? At a time when Nevada is running more than a one billion dollar budget
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by Bob Burks
Created on: April 18, 2008
We lost the 'War On Drugs' the very first day we started fighting it.
The very term 'War On Drugs' is
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by Mark Luedtke
Created on: May 28, 2009
The news gets worse every day. President Obama widens the war against the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan
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by Stoneheart
Created on: September 23, 2007
"War On Drugs"? You gotta be kidding!
If the U.S. government really wanted the illegal sale of drugs
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by Stephen B.
Created on: July 15, 2008
It is impossible to win a war that does not exist. The real war is one that law and the norms of society
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by Sj Daley
Created on: August 24, 2007
In war, there is a winner and a loser.In this war on drugs, there are no winners. I think in the end
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