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.
You have it exactly reversed. Opium was legal in England before 1868, and banned in China.
Like pot? A plant that when smoked produces a mild calming effect on the brain....is a vaso- dialator...which means it opens up blood vessels....which produces "the munchies" by opening up the blood vessel in the stomach. This effect actually helps folks that have problems eating and nausea eat more healthy better than anything given. A drug that has never killed anyone.
That sounds just like caffiene...found in soda, coffee, tea, and the plethora of energy drinks on the market. Caffiene is a mild drug that has shown to cause some withdrawl symptoms in people it is suddenly taken away from. God help America if the coffee supply ever goes dry. Caffiene also has some long term health effects in some people, when paired with the poison in the soda America swills by the gallon and the junk fast food they eat, kill them in numbers far larger than pot.
Then there's nicotene in all tobacco products. Very addictive. And alcohol. And let's discuss "Legal Drugs". Drugs the government allows us to consume...
Like Viagra....There is a vast black market for Viagra and a large legal trade as well...While I guess holding a woody for hours on end is a genuine medical need...Most of the folks who take it do so because the want to.
Like Xanax...Another legal drug with a large black market following along with a legal clientel that take it because they like it...not because they actually need it. Most folks with a bottle full wouldn't hesitate to give a few to a friend having a bad time. Most folks don't realize that Xanax can easily kill and does so often at doses well within normal range but mixed with alcohol...also at normal levels. A good friend of my wife lost her star pupil, star wrestler 17 yo son after he came home from a party having had 2 beers, took one .5 xanax from the bottle bearing his name and he died. This has been a regular occurance over the years.
Now lets talk about Opoid pain relievers...Lortab, vicodin, Oxycontin, morphine etc...All these pain relievers come from the poppy plant, the same plant heroin and opium come from. Why does the goverment say it's ok to take these for pain when combat vets from Afghanistan, including author and SEAL Marcus Luttrel have said a paste made by locals from this plant was the best pain killer they ever had, and didn;t produce the sickness and reactions pills and morhine does. Hmmm.. Do you see the contradictions between what the gov says is legal, safe and legal and what's not? Seems the gov has problems with plants being used as medicine...but is totally ok once those plants have been turned into some form of medical compound that is less effective,less healthy, but has enabled a drug company to make a profit.
Personally, I don't think Fed.gov has any business telling me what medicines I should or should not take....no more than they can tell me what I can and cannot eat. It's not about concern for public health...it's about control. It's about divide and conquer.
Yeah... like Facebook and Twitter!
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