| It is disgusting to support an administration that lies about the statistics of drugs to justify their failing war on drugs that has also taken the lives of innocents from children to bystanders (which the government simply called as "collateral damage" [0]). How many times has our government lied to us about the statistics? 2015 - 1.8 Million Drug Users from a study by the Dangerous Drug Board [1] 2016 - Duterte claims that there are 3.7 Million Addicts in the country [2] 2016 - Months later, Duterte claims that there'd be 4 Million by the end of September [3] 2017 - On May, Philippine Drug Agency says there's now 4.7 Million Addicts [4] 2017 - On September, Foreign Affairs Secretary (and Duterte's VP running mate) hiked the number to 7 Million Drug Addicts at a UN Assembly [5] Tell me, if his war on drugs is such a success, then why is the number of junkies growing? sources: [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/17/duterte-says-c... [1] https://www.rappler.com/nation/146654-drug-use-survey-result... [2] http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/07/25/16/read-transcript-of-pr... [3] http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/09/23/1626648/duterte... [4] http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/05/04/1696547/pdea-ph... [5] http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/09/28/1743577/cayetan... |