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That this case was severly mishandled does not mean that the war on drugs is completely sickening. Somehow I believe that this case is pretty unusual, and the majority of the war on drugs are focused on stopping those who import/make/sell harder drugs like meth, coke, speed and so on which certainly is the target for the war on drugs, not people using medication for an illness.


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So it’s ok to mishandle a few cases and incarcerate sick people ( for up to 24 years ) as long as the government takes the 45 billion they’ve spent this year alone and do something about the hard drug problems in the U.S., even though what they are doing is not staving off usage one iota?

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Using this case as a symbol of the war on drugs is like finding a case where someone has been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murder when he in reality killed in self defense, and then make the assumption that the fight against murderers and the illegality of murder is sickening.



[/ QUOTE ] Murder and Drug use and sales are not analgous. Murder is immoral because it causes irrepairable harm to others. Drug use is a vice; you are only doing possible harm to yourself . Nothing inherently immoral about this.