The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war

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A half-century into America’s ‘war on drugs’, a new Netflix series uses dollars, cents and economic incentives to ask: is prohibition worth it?

As a CIA analyst in Shanghai and Pakistan during America’s “war on terror”, Amaryllis Fox was familiar with drawn-out, intractable conflict. She’d studied the compounding effects of redoubling on failed policies, of redundant good versus evil arguments peddled into a quagmire, costing billions and an incalculable loss of life.

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We need to follow Portugal.

Like the Guardian the only point of the drug war was to suppress the left.

Prohibition has made many nasty people a great deal of money. People are generally able to get what drugs they want currently. Legaling makes sense as they could then get ‘pure’ substances. However deaths would have to be accepted.

legalisation is key

God is the only healer. In God we trust

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