LF: Only 7% Think U.S. Is Winning War on Drugs

Though billions of dollars have been spent on the “War on Drugs,” just 7% think we’re winning that war. In Colorado and Washington, they even voted to legalize marijuana, and most voters think drugs laws should be left to the states, not the feds.

Americans overwhelmingly believe the war on drugs is a failure, but there’s little support for spending more on it to win.

Only seven percent (7%) of American Adults think the United States is winning the war on drugs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Eighty-two percent (82%) say the country is not winning the fight against illegal drugs. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 1,000 Adults nationwide was conducted on November 9-10, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.

See methodology via Rasmussen.

US Drug War a Failure:

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Deckard - this is an honest question. It is not snark. It is not intended to impugn your character, or to make a point to you. I simply want to know, because it tests a theory I have.

By "use" I mean "use at all". I don't mean "use daily". I mean "do you EVER use them"?

I think you will answer that you have indeed used an illegal drug at least once in the past, and that you occasionally have used them in the present, and will again in the future if the circumstances arise.

Here's an example of how disingenuous Deckard is about his "War on Drugs". If the United States were to legalize marijuana nationwide, we would NEVER hear from Deckard or his ilk EVER again about the "War on Drugs".

For him it's about marijuana. That's it. We could execute cocaine users in the street and he wouldn't care as long as his pot is legal.

I do not presently - I have in the past, probably 8-9 years since I have smoked pot.

fed.gov does NOT have the right to tell me (or anyone for that matter) what substances I choose to ingest.

A government that has the power to tell you what drugs you may NOT ingest also has the power to tell you what drugs you MUST ingest.

Add to that the number of innocent victims of the "war" the unconstitutional actions taken in pursuit of said war, and the overwhelming costs associated with it.