Tuesday, March 9, 2010
DEA, F#CK YOUR WAR!!!
Ask me a few years ago what I thought about drug prohibition and the War on Drugs and I would have told you, as the statist Republican I was, that I was all for it. But I was dumb and naive. I bought into the myth that people need laws and force in their lives or they die! The video I posted is a better illustration of why repealing drug prohibition is something that is necessary in a free society then what I could do. But a few thoughts: I work as a Probation Assistant and on a very micro-scale I see how drugs effect these kids. These are good kids, the majority of them aren't hurting anyone. The only reason they are a burden to society is because we make them to be. I mean most of them just want to get high with their friends but we treat them are criminals instead of helping them. Its time to get rid of the nanny state in America. We need to quit waste time on victim-less crimes like non-violent drug use. If we genuinely want to end the drug problem, which I'm not convinced we do, we need to end the War on Drugs and allocate our resources to actually help these people not treat them as criminals.
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"Legalizing drugs will not eliminate illegal trafficking of drugs, nor the violence associated with the illegal drug trade. A black market would still exist unless all psychoactive and addictive drugs in all strengths were made available to all ages in unlimited quantity." Drug Watch International Position Statement. (http://www.drugwatch.org/Against%20Legalization%20of%20Drugs.htm)
ReplyDeleteHow can there be such a thing as illegal trafficking if its not illegal? I want to legalize drugs so you can't illegal traffic something that is legal. I don't know how you can argue violence wouldn't go down? The reason for the violence is because that is the only means to enforce contracts and transactions in illegal goods. You don't see violence in the selling and distributing of alcohol. So I don't understand this.
ReplyDeleteI was assuming that there would be some sort of regulation upon potency and age restrictions in your utopian world. Maybe not?
ReplyDeleteIf there are restrictions on age and potency then you must still deal with illegal trafficking and the black market. If there is an age restriction on drugs, it will be illegal to traffic and sell the drugs to them, but a black market will meet any necessary demands. But if there are no restrictions whatsoever on any drugs, or anything at all... stop and think of what will happen in society.
You only need to look to one drug to show that a full on legalization of "drugs" is a very, very bad idea, methamphetamine. It is now legal to buy, use, and make in your own home (the effects of which make living quarters uninhabitable) It is now legal possess at school, use, manufacture, and sell at the age of 12 or younger. A prominent meth manufacturer and distributor will now be able to sue the estate of one of his buyers because he overdosed and died using his meth before he was able to pay the debt.
Legalizing drugs without restrictions is a bad idea. However, legalization with some restrictions will only minimize the black market.
"Utopian World"? I guess personal freedom has become a utopian concept. Of course there will be restrictions on such things as age. I really don't see how this isn't simple, we currently have two different legal drugs in the USA. I'm sure alcohol and tobacco do have a black market but I am also sure that it is incredibly minimal. Not only do we have examples of legal drugs in our own country but we also have example of broad legalization or de-criminalization in other countries like Netherlands and Spain. In these countries the drug policy focuses more on drug prevention and drug treatment then persecution. Are the citizens in these countries dying like crazy, are people just laying around not working all day, are the children stealing and raping everything? No, drug use is stabilized or reduced in many areas. While in this country drug use only goes up after billions of tax payers dollars are thrown at the problem. You like our current system is working? God forbid we try something new.
ReplyDeleteIf drug use continues to rise, why do you think that legalizing it is the answer? It saves us the money we spend on the drug war, but what will it cost us socially?
ReplyDeleteWhy do I think legalizing is the answer? 1)I think the drug problem has proven to be unsolvable so let try controlling it better with prevention and treatment 2) I want to live in a free society where I can do anything I want to MYSELF without someone telling me otherwise 3)It has proven more successful then our failed system (the dutch smoke less pot per capita then we do).
ReplyDeleteYou act like it will be the fail of the republic if we legalize drugs. There are examples of this working in other countries. All you have is subjective evidence of what may happen. I have on my side shit that has proven true in other countries.
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ReplyDeleteThis author makes some greats points that i completely agree with.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gargaro.com/drugs.html
I wanted to copy and paste the entire article here but there are character limits on the comments. But I will summarize the arguments and you can visit the link to read the substance.
1. "But taking drugs is an individuals choice..."
2.Legalizing drugs does not mean less government.
3. "The drug war isn't working, we need to try something else..."
4. "Legalizing drugs will reduce crime"
5. "Legalizing drugs will take the thrill our of them and people will no longer do them"
Well worth a read, even if you disagree with it.