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Drug War Failed: Americans are world's top drug users- study

rawstory.com — Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the scientific magazine PLoS Medicine.

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  • e1evene1even, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Actually, the drug war hasn't failed, its succeeding brilliantly. If you have any doubts ask the prison industrial complex.

    Arguably the most punitive drug policies in the world, the highest rate of drug use in the world and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, coincidence?
  • tufftugg, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1 One thing you can't say about American leaders, is they deal with reality well.
  • MicroStat08, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1At least give America props! I mean, we are really low on the education list, so we compensate it by getting high.

    Genius!!
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