Reddit reviews Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition

We're in the midst of an opioid epidemic to which the state has responded almost entirely with force--it is the prohibition of drugs which leads to their negative consequences.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo23530208.html

https://www.amazon.com/Drug-War-Crimes-Consequences-Prohibition/dp/0945999909/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498778246&sr=8-1&keywords=jeffrey+miron

Fantastic book on the subject

http://www.amazon.com/Drug-War-Crimes-Consequences-Prohibition/dp/0945999909

Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition by Jeffrey Miron

You're sounding like some uneducated fuck that thinks everyone can just pull themselves up with their own bootstraps and those who are poor are just too lazy to do so. I bet you think we should privatize everything, because then if no one got anything for free they wouldn't feel entitled to it and that would encourage them to work for a brighter tomorrow...

Your idealized view of capitalistic optimism may work for you in what ever delusion you have in your head, where Reagan is a God and opportunity just trickles down from above... But in reality, the system is fucking broken. It has fucking failed. These kids never had a fair chance to begin with, the playing field was never level, they were doomed to fail from the start.

An unstable household, they probably never received the same quality nutrition you did growing up, the education system was a fucking joke, our country treats drug addiction as a criminal problem (not a mental health problem) and the criminal justice system is just completely and utterly fucked...

So yeah, these "violent criminals" may have made some poor choices, but they had pretty limited options from the get go. Can you just maybe entertain the thought, for just half a fucking second, that the system was fucked and not to their advantage at all. They were set up for failure from they even started.

You should really broaden your horizons a little bit. I'm not suggesting anything drastic, like taking a liberal studies class at your local college, but maybe read a book on the matter.

I would really recommend Jeffery A Miron's Drug War Crimes Seriously, its a really interesting book- it deals with the consequences of drug prohibition and the socio-economic ripples that it leaves on generations of the population.