Clearly there is a bias, but I don't think it's wrong in this case.
I hate hard drugs because of the damage they cause, but it seems pretty clear to me (as an outside observer) that the United States' strategy of mass incarceration has been spectacularly unsuccessful in combatting the problem...
The US experiment with alcohol prohibition is an ominous precedent to the war on drugs. Prohibition caused organized crime in the US to flourish. When Prohibition was repealed, the machinery was in place, so it refocused on drugs, gambling, and extortion. So the war on drugs is a second wave effect, and we are responding in exactly the same way.
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Clearly there is a bias, but I don't think it's wrong in this case.
I hate hard drugs because of the damage they cause, but it seems pretty clear to me (as an outside observer) that the United States' strategy of mass incarceration has been spectacularly unsuccessful in combatting the problem...
The US experiment with alcohol prohibition is an ominous precedent to the war on drugs. Prohibition caused organized crime in the US to flourish. When Prohibition was repealed, the machinery was in place, so it refocused on drugs, gambling, and extortion. So the war on drugs is a second wave effect, and we are responding in exactly the same way.