Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "A Crack in the North American Drug War || Peter Zeihan" video.

@michaeldavis3819 That is not true. The real evidence lies in the policy that Switzerland adopted. Certain areas of the USA have tried decriminalization and it has been a fiasco, that is because they thought that all you had to do was make the use of illegal drugs a non-offense to use. That was naive. You need the whole program that was successful in Switzerland. But strangely enough, though Calvinism and the more known attitudes of Puritanism originated in Switzerland, the population has evolved beyond such draconian ideals and viewed the problem objectively, unlike the knee-jerk reaction represented by your own comment. It works -- punishment does not work, it only corrupts the police and alienates people who are caught up in the system -- many of them being framed to advance the careers of bad cops. Also note that since MJ was decriminalized in Sweden the teenage use of it has fallen off a cliff.
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Coca Cola is already a drug due to its sugar content.
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Spoken like a Trump drone who can't even come up with anything factual or original himself. How does it feel to be a carbon copy of an imbecile?
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@USandGlobal Ok you proved you are a no nothing puddin' head no need for a response. The facts are there for anyone to find.
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@bluesteel8376 Well something had to replace the cocaine. But that amount of sugar is a drug. Want to feel better fast? If you drink soft drinks, sugar or sugar sub -- fruit juice too, give them up entirely. In two weeks you will emerge from a hell you didn't even know you were in, and your body will thank you for it. I remember when the head of the dental school at Emory U made a simple statement of fact about coke rotting your teeth. Next year the dental school disappeared. Because the Woodruffs started both coke and the university and they don't take truth from underlings when it hits them in the wallet.
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@michaeldavis3819 You got that wrong. The US policies have granted a monopoly to criminal organizations to sell drugs creating the first criminal billionaires, just like prohibition created the first criminal millionaires. The real evidence lies in the policy that Switzerland adopted. Certain areas of the USA have tried decriminalization and it has been a fiasco, that is because they thought that all you had to do was make the use of illegal drugs a non-offense to use. That was naive. You need the whole program that was successful in Switzerland. But strangely enough, though Calvinism and the more known attitudes of Puritanism originated in Switzerland, the population has evolved beyond such draconian ideals and viewed the problem objectively, unlike the knee-jerk reaction represented by your own comment. It works -- punishment does not work, it only corrupts the police and alienates people who are caught up in the system -- many of them being framed to advance the careers of bad cops. Also note that since MJ was decriminalized in Sweden the teenage use of it has fallen off a cliff.
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