Opinions - Can governments be considered mass murderers due to the harm caused by the Drug War?

[eternalBliss]

The government. There are millions of deaths a year from drugs, however they are caused by the government making the drugs illegal.
For example I'm sure many of you have seen programs based on african tribes ect. in all of these tribes drugs are used alot. However there are no deaths from drugs in these tribes. Why is this? It's becasue the drugs arn't cut with crap. This leads me back to the government issue, becasue drugs are illegal they are not regulated hence they are cut with whatever the dealer wants to cut them with. There are no standard controls.
Another point is that part of the addiction of drugs is becasue you are against the government, you are being rebellious(obviously this doesn't apply to all people).

A real life example of allowing drugs is tobacco. Lots of people die from tobacco, however when new smoking laws came in people abided by them. People did not run rampant in the streets and consequently the deaths have fallen.

Alot of crime is commited because the drugs are expensive. Commercialisation of drugs would lower the prices. Also many diseases are transmitted via needles, this is becasue the drugs are not openly available.



Something needs to be done! obviously the answer isn't simple or it would have been thought of allready...anyone else have any input??

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totally agree..