Topic: Duterte's War on Drugs - 2000 Killed & 600,000 Surrendered & counting (Read 4574 times)

Drug dealers are just the symptom. Still, you are refusing to look at the real reason why this violence occur. Unless you improve the education levels, literacy and reduce poverty, the violence is not going to cease. And the only viable measure to end the menace of drug peddlers is to legalize and regulate soft-drugs.

Drug dealers and users are a scourge upon society. They inflict pain, Crime is fueled by it and in last 10 years, robbery, rape, shooting, riot, mauling, murders all because of drugs everyday.

I agree , as you said they are scourge upon society so they deserve to be punished because they are the reason why there are so many committed in past few years . they don't not have any contribution to the Philippines they are just making other people's life miserable especially the youth so these drug dealers as well as their protectors must be punished and sent to jail or maybe sentenced to death .

Drug dealers and users are a scourge upon society. They inflict pain, Crime is fueled by it and in last 10 years, robbery, rape, shooting, riot, mauling, murders all because of drugs everyday.

You may have a point but since it is under the law that it is illegal, you have nothing to do but to comply. Any violent reaction will be dealt with,if it endangers the life of the arresting personnel sorry but its better for the police to be alive than the drug lord etc.

War on drugs is a bloody campaign, there already deads  but still there are people who are not afraid.They are already reprimanded even before Duterte become President.

No war on an idea can ever be won. Armies can defeat other armies and subdue national populations, but they cannot kill an idea because it isn't a living thing. One might think of killing everyone who has the idea, but in the case of drugs, that would mean wiping out virtually the entire human race, and the idea would come right back anyway. All of us who are not tiny children know what drugs are. If we did not, someone would soon discover them just as our ancient ancestors did. War on Drugs cheerleaders need to ask themselves, "Which do you consider a greater threat to humanity, drugs or mass termination of nearly the entire human race?"

Twelve years ago, heroin addiction in Portugal had reached epidemic proportions. People were dying in the streets because they had no idea what the potency of a street purchased smack was, and no way of knowing what it had been diluted with, or if it had been diluted at all.

Instead of jailing ever larger portions of their populace, the Portuguese  decided to try a different approach. They decriminalized drugs, and focused the money they had been spending on policing, trials, prisons and probation on drug rehab and education. Possession of small amounts of drugs are a misdemeanor similar to a parking violation. Addicts get help instead of jail. The result is they have cut heroin addiction in half and overdose deaths are nearly unheard of because addicts can legally get pure heroin from their treatment program. Costs of the program are also far lower than the War on Drugs approach.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a dismal failure.”

nothing good war on drugs not brings
only a waste of state budget

Bureaucracy in relation to medical, scientists, teachers etc
this is what the war on drugs in Russia
read links
http://russialist.org/admirals-suicide-shakes-russias-healthcare-system/
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-scientist-hounded-by-officials-after-buying-banned-substance-48243

Politics Duterte will bring degradation of the country and innocent victims,
but the problem will not be solved

No. It is not going to benefit the country. On the other hand, the situation will deteriorate. The law and order will collapse, and the poverty will worsen. If Duterte want to eradicate drug usage in Philippines, then he might need to exterminate up to ten million Filipinos. The easier option is drug legalization and regulation. But at this point of time, I don't think that he will consider that step.

This figure terrifies me. I do not know how to treat this. Very cruel. Although of course it can, and will benefit the country

in any case it is impossible to legalize drugs. It will ruin the nation and lead to its complete degradation. President of the Philippines chose the right path, though very heavy

Why would you legalize a drug that can damage your brain. This will not and never be an option. Many innocent victims and crimes are related by drugs. This crime will just go up if it will legalize.

No. It is not going to benefit the country. On the other hand, the situation will deteriorate. The law and order will collapse, and the poverty will worsen. If Duterte want to eradicate drug usage in Philippines, then he might need to exterminate up to ten million Filipinos. The easier option is drug legalization and regulation. But at this point of time, I don't think that he will consider that step.