End The War On Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists

[moonbogg]

Pshh. Like anyone will listen to them. Hah. What do those idiots know anyway. "End war on drugs" Please! We should keep fighting for the cause until the whole damn country is dead, buried and gone. D.A.R.E. till I die bitches!

 

[Nebor]

Why is the opinion of nobel winning economists relevant to topics other than economics?

Spoken like someone who knows very little about economics. Per Webster, economics is "a science concerned with the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought."

Drugs are goods which are produced, sold and bought.

Furthermore, economists today are involved in a number of fields quite far removed from robots and pizza (or guns and butter for you old schooners,) such as psychology, & biology.

 

[MongGrel]

Should have ended long ago the waste of money from the Nancy Reagan days.

It's been as overblown as Homeland Security waste of money has become and a lot older.

 

[shira]

Yet that's not what the paper says or is about. Again, I don't necesarrily disagree with the premise, but having people with economics nobel prizes sign off on it doesn't add any value or credibility, and doesn't make it any better.

Actually, you can get a nobel just for being popular, our idiot in chief demonstrated that.

Um, you do understand, don't you, that a "premise" is an assumed truth from which conclusions are drawn?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/premise

a statement that is assumed to be true for the purpose of an argument from which a conclusion is drawn.

But perhaps you meant to say that you "don't necessarily disagree with the" conclusion that the war on drugs has been far more destructive than beneficial, and should therefore be abandoned.

 

[Victorian Gray]

The non-whites really aren't in there for drugs though. It's violence.

No.

"According to the Sentencing Project, African-Americans make up 12% of the nation’s drug users, but represent 34% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 45% of those in state prison for such offense as of 2005."

http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/criminal-injustice-the-percentage-african

more recent figures:

"Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/drug-war-mass-incarceration_n_3034310.html

 

[Nebor]

No.

"According to the Sentencing Project, African-Americans make up 12% of the nation’s drug users, but represent 34% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 45% of those in state prison for such offense as of 2005."

http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/criminal-injustice-the-percentage-african

more recent figures:

"Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/08/drug-war-mass-incarceration_n_3034310.html

None of that really addresses what alkyl was driving at: that blacks are far more likely to be arrested for violent crime. But we can agree that they're far more likely to be arrested (and incarcerated) for anything.