I agree
It’s not just the war on drugs that we should be concerned with.
The drugs are coming thru our borders along with many bad people and who knows what else.
close the borders and we shut down on a lot of our problems.
I, for one, don't want to have to walk by a bunch of loaded up junkies or pot heads when I shop at the local mall.
We could win the War on Drugs in six months.
Shut down the Mexican border.
But there’s no money to be made in that.
And you better believe it, that’s why a forty year useless war is still being fought.
PRay your house isn’t the mistaken address for the next testosterone laden SWAT team no-knock warrant.
In 1870 there were no drug laws in America and there were no overwhelming drug problems. Nobody should need to be Albert Einstein to figure that one out.
A better solution would be to make drug use unacceptable socially at all levels. Maybe an advertising campaign that stresses the point that recreational users are paying money to drug cartels who murder and enslave people. Money also goes to terrorists to use against America. Everyone who uses illegal drugs is guilty of funding these people.
Someone will want to come back and say, “if we legalize drugs, then these bad people will be out of the picture and replaced by legitimate companies.”
I would reply that you can just look back at how the British companies behaved when making and selling drugs was illegal in England, but was legal in India and China.
I believe that this country needs to seriously reset its moral compass. It would resolve a ton of issues that we're facing right now. If communities were tighter knit, drug use would be unacceptable to the community as a whole and the problem would resolve itself, regardless of whether drugs were legal or illegal.
California is a dealer’s paradise. It’s like “here try this stuff it’s backed by the state.”If by chance you get hooked-the state pays to get you off it. And you will not go to jail. It is automatic probation if they catch you with the chit.
It’s OK with me to legalize them but not a single penny of government money to be spent on rehab. If you want freedom, you can have it.
War on Poverty - FAIL
War on Drugs - FAIL
War on Terror - Success so far Thank God and our military(unless lefties get their way)
The worst things about the war on drugs it that it swells the size of government, limits individual freedom and infantilizes the public.
We had a war on drugs known as prohibition and all that did was give rise to a permanent criminal class, destroy respect for the rule of law and turn previously law abiding citizens into criminals.
What surprises me is that people I know who - unlike me - like to do a little blow once in while are adamently opposed to relaxing drug laws. They are, apparently, afraid that the coloreds will get all hopped on weed and rape their daughters.
Where does the Constitution authorized the federal government to do or say anything about drugs? Just wondering.
I'm willing to accept the fact that drugs are going to be used by a percentage of the population, whether legally or illegally.
So, what I propose is
1) That drugs be decriminalized.
2) That anyone caught doing anything illegal while under the influence of drugs is given a minimum of one year in prison.
3) When a person provides non prescription drugs to another person(s) and that individual either dies or causes the death or serious bodily injury, of another, the provider and the user are executed.
Lazy, cowardly and stupid American drug users. Too lazy, chicken and stupid to change their reality, so they use drugs to forget about it for a few minutes.
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If drugs were legal, the kids would have to find something even worse in order to break the law. It’s better that they just smoke dope, which is relatively harmless, than deal with their delayed entry into adulthood in a more harmful way. Bottom line is this: unless we are wiling for young people to live meaningful lives, like getting a job instead of wasting their time in dumbed-down schools, then we’ve got to accept that all they’ll want to do is play video games, smoke dope and have unprotected sex.
As a frontline drug warrior, It’s my opinion the WOD is a miserable failure. The only thing that can replace the WOD is a return to a populace that is significantly less hedonistic and more moral.