Posted on 10/11/2015 10:10:43 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
One word can sometimes change the way one views things. To wit: if one adds the word “other” to alcohol and drugs (alcohol and other drugs) one’s perspective is likely to change. The failure to use it in normal parlance speaks to an arbitrary distinction that has for too long been accepted.
It is difficult to argue that alcohol is not a drug and the same applies to nicotine. Further, like almost all recreational drugs, they offer an immediate “high” followed by a “low” as the pleasure chemicals oscillate back to stasis. “Weed,” cocaine, heroin (OXY) etc. do exactly the same thing. The fundamental distinction is that they have been made illegal and the results of use may be more dramatic. Users also may be marginally more likely to become addicted. Interestingly, one is more likely to die coming off alcohol than other drugs but the road back is more difficult.
One source of these sanctimonious laws was blatant racism. “Weed” was the drug of choice in the Black culture years ago. It was believed by the public to drive young Black males into a frenzy which put White girls at risk. Opiates were the drugs of choice...
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Wont a Socialist Utopia make everyone so euphoric that all drugs will be abandoned?
If the author was making a serious effort to solve the problem, this wouldn’t be the last paragraph of the article:
Perhaps it is time to rethink the problem. “Rethink” may be inaccurate as it is difficult to associate thought with those who brought us to this sorry pass.
I suspect that a big reason that alcohol has never been included in the war on drugs is that so many politicians are lushes.
The next day, I think we should provide the drugs for the nominal cost of production plus distribution, thereby destroying all the profit in dealing. Then, just wait for Darwin to solve the problem.
All I know, is what we are doing now isn't working. So pick one and try it!
Warring on drugs mistakes the footprint for the shoe.
Forgotten the 18th Amendment, have you?
did you ever hear about prohibition?
Alcohol was the very beginning in the War on Drugs, when it didn’t hold, Anslinger needed another demon, weed.
https://www.votehemp.com/PDF/The_Forbidden_Fruit_and_The_Tree_of_Knowledge.pdf
It’s called liberty and the free market. Let’s try that.
L
This same class of do-gooders were once able to ban the production and sale of alcohol in the USA.
Our prisons were full of bootleggers and their enforcement, distribution etc.
Coach is wrong. Again.
Worse. Coach is a blog pimp.
Part of the answer is a border fence and deporting illegal aliens. It is the illegal aliens from Mexico who not only smuggle in drugs but actively recruit new addicts. The Xalisco Boy who sell black tar heroin, for example, target only whites, especially youngsters. All are illegal aliens, briefly in the US before being replaced with another grew.
Except rather than having the government do it, private parties would do it. Probably more efficiently and at lower costs, meaning that Darwin would work his magic even faster . . . at least until the government tarted levying excise taxes on it as is currently done with alcohol and tobacco. And isn't far off for weed in Colorado and Oregon . . .
True.
Illegal aliens smuggle cartel drugs as a way to pay the coyote. . .and according to dems, we should reward those criminals with citizenship.
Drug cartels. . .ISIS has nothing on them
I'd be more inclined to believe it goes back to money. As in, Big Alcohol is who their donors are.
As long as there is money to be made thier will be drugs
It’s not possible to destroy profit. The illegality of drugs has made them profitable beyond all belief for the drug gangs.
There’s only one solution and that’s ending this stupid, counterproductive, and un-Constitutional war on drugs.
L
“It is the illegal aliens from Mexico who not only smuggle in drugs but actively recruit new addicts”
What crap.
Addiction is caused by soul sickness, which is caused by hedonism and a cold indifference to family, faith, and one’s created nature.
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