Are WE losing the WAR on DRUGS?

[mildreddavis1]

I ask this because WE, the residents of a northside apartment complex in Houston, TX, are feeling like we are trapped in our apartments. The property management company has welded all but two of the walk thru gates   but still crime is growing! It has gotten so bad in this area, it has been given a nickname "GUNS POINT" because at any given time of any given day you could get robbed at gunpoint rather you are IN YOUR apartment or walking to and from your car.  

[yosav]

i dont think were losing, i think we lost

[nereidajmnz]

Oh wow! I can only have an idea of what you going through. I lived like that for years till I moved but let me tell you, is like that almost everywhere. Sometimes you drive around nice neighborhoods and you think, nice place to live, then you drive there at night, and it is a total different world. I've been a victim of vandalism, purse snatchers, and earingsnatcher on plain daylight. Police only take description and report nothing is followed up it seems. I think things are getting worst.

[vmcutshall]

I believe we lost the battle along time ago.  What if they legalized the less harmful drugs and taxed the way out of them?  Our country would be well on its way to getting out of debt.

[plennis]

I believe we lost the battle along time ago.  What if they legalized the less harmful drugs and taxed the way out of them?  Our country would be well on its way to getting out of debt.

I agree with this.  Marijuana in a lot of areas is more common than regular smoking.  Tax it like they do regular smokes, let all the people who are in jail for  (just) smoking marijuana out.   Since it has been proven to help with several different illness, I think for pain relief, tax it like drugs in the pharmacies too!  We would really make a dent in the budget problems.    They have done studies and it is less harmful than (in moderation)  a whole lot of other things that are legal.                          

[Abrupt]

Such is a classic example of how you cannot regulate "good behavior/habits".  People generally tend to do what they want to with little regard for the rules/regulations/laws.  This is also why I tend to cringe every time some citizen or lawmaker suggests some new penalty against something that they perceive as bad for someone.  Even forfeiture of life would not be enough to deter everyone, although something so drastic is the only thing that would have a chance to significantly reduce such violations (not that I support such an idea, it was merely speculation on the fruitlessness of the current methods).

[mstevenson2]

you should go to the city councel here in ogden ut if the cops get calls for drugs ete and a lanlord dose nothing about the problem they lose thier right to right

[plaguezombie]

There really isn't a war on drugs. There was a whole episode of Penn and Teller: BS on this particular topic, and I think you can find it on the tube.

[vickysue]

Our Fed. govt. doesn't seem to want to enforce it along the border states. The border Patrol do waht they can on stopping it, but the amount they do stop is just a dropin the bucket. For every mule( smuggler)  that  they catch there is proably 50 more at other places across the border that come in. I know some of you don't believe we should be enforcing the laws about the illegals, but if you haven't lived along the border you just will not ever understand how bad it is. Even if it was legal there would still be trouble. I say we need the military down there helping stop the flow instead of off in some country that doesn't really want us there.

[thtrngng]

It seems to me that we are not fighting hard enough in the war on drugs. As long as there is money to be made in the drug trade there will always be a problem. Drug traffickers make more money than the government will spend to stop illegal drugs from coming into the country. As someone mentioned before we lost the war on drugs.

[crazyzoo]

We lost a long time ago maybe all the millions spent trying to win would be better spent in another area 

[brenspencer]

we lost a long time ago my step sons smoke pot and everyone else around here does the funny thing is you are probably working with a druggie and do not know it they made things for them to pass the drug test pretty sad if you tell me what has this world come to between the politics, immigration, crime and drugs makes me sick to call myself an american

[willdunn94]

The war on drugs is certainly a very failed attempt for the government to abolish an ever-expanding underground economy that has greater ties to our own national economy than most people may think. The war on drugs is not something that the government should continue to pump millions of dollars into every year.

[jaymz462]

Decriminalize drugs.  Problem solved.

[sfister65]

I ask this because WE, the residents of a northside apartment complex in Houston, TX, are feeling like we are trapped in our apartments. The property management company has welded all but two of the walk thru gates   but still crime is growing! It has gotten so bad in this area, it has been given a nickname "GUNS POINT" because at any given time of any given day you could get robbed at gunpoint rather you are IN YOUR apartment or walking to and from your car.  

Sounds like a scary place to live. Are you able to move?