Prohibition created the drug cartels....legalization and supply and demand economics is killing them. Who’d a thunk it.
Hope we won’t have to legalize human trafficking.
Anyone who has an understanding of the true nature of Freedom, that's who.
Freedom doesn't just mean the Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness; it also means respecting other individuals' Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I don't get to decide the boundaries of your Pursuit of Happiness, unless and until you infringe on someone else's rights by committing a crime of force, fraud, or palpable negligence.
Contraband law is Unamerican and Tyrannical; anybody who thinks a person should be subject to prison for possessing the wrong medicine, plant, liquid spirits, or recreational chemical fundamentally misunderstands what Freedom is.
Again, my Pursuit of Happiness shouldn't depend on the whims of any other individual or group. Only in the most compelling circumstances can such a thing even be contemplated, and it should be the exception rather than the rule.
Arbitrary law, and the misguided, shortcut-seeking Prohibitionist mind is what helped create and nurture organized crime cartels, both during alcohol Prohibition and also during the course of the Constitution-shredding Drug War.
George Washington grew hemp (marijuana). Thus, in today's America, the Father of our Country would be subject to a lengthy prison sentence for doing so, even if the crop wasn't intended for recreational use! He'd also be subject to militarized police breaking into his home with a "no knock" search warrant, ready to shoot dead anything that moves.
Cheering a militarized Police State as it imposes Tyranny on your brother for doing something you don't approve of will likely result someday in the same thing happening to you or someone you care about!
No thanks. I categorically reject such compromised Liberty. I'll continue honoring Liberty in its pure, unadulterated form, with its many inconveniences, challenges, perils, and advantages, and in all of its exhilarating glory.
The cartels will simply move on to harder drugs and start marketing them to get their profits up. Then what are you going to do, legalize those too? The more sin and debauchery you allow, all you do is move the goalposts. Marijuana will become mainstream and widespread, while the addiction, crime and problems with other drugs simply get bigger and increase. You have more and more people pushing themselves down towards the next gateway drug and the cartels given every incentive to market harder drugs.
Legalization is absolutely STUPID, SHORTSIGHTED policy. Drug legalization is a SIN, it’s destructive to human life and the economy, it’s wrong, it’s evil.
So if the government started handing out crack, we could put the drug cartels out of business together and totally solve the drug problem. I mean, if we let private industry sell crack legally....didnt mean to sound so big government.
But the problem would be fixed.