Posted on 10/21/2016 11:49:18 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
It's with everyone's reach. Just a puff away.
I am relatively certain, that as an LEO, you would agree with me. Drain the swamp.
When one drains a swamp you don’t start by building a dam at the upper end. Why we fight the War on Drugs with prisons is just bizarre. Drain the swamp. Put the damn corrupt politicians in the prisons if you want but START AT THE BOTTOM. Get rid of the corrupt politicians if you insist on fighting the war. Fight it to win it. Then you can get rid if the dirty cops who let the drugs flow, then get rid of the distributors.
Personally, just legalize the damn things and move on to real problems, like our economy, the debt, etc. is my position. Continuing the “War on Drugs” and accomplishing nothing more than enriching corrupt banks and politicians while increasing violence is just irrationally suicidal.
First of all, this is just the typical liberal response to anyone that questions government authority. Your statist position will not stand and only serves to alienate people that you would like to influence. People will make their own decisions, right or wrong. Attempting to force them into an approved mold leads only to resentment and disrespect. As a statist, you should know propaganda better that that.
100% with you.
Oh, these days all of that stuff is coma weed for old schoolers.
Are they aware of the recent ruling that holding that script removes their ability to legally purchase a firearm?
And that only increases the FU to the gov. Kind of like the no-fly list.
Potheads are bravely on the front lines in the struggle for freedom and democracy.
You believe that there should be an absolute authority governing peoples live. I disagree and think people should have the right to make their own decisions, right or wrong.
Personally, I could see how Law Enforcement could be fun if it were not for this insane War on Drugs. I just don’t see how we get people to even do it now. God Bless you for being one who will. Maybe you can address this but it seems to me that the way things are, the folks who are attracted to it may not be exactly the kind of folks you want doing it. Maybe, in some respects, that is part of the problem. I don’t mean to unintentionally offend in an area I don’t profess to know anything about. My contact with Law Enforcement has been zero and I would love to keep it that way.
If LEOs could go to work without living in fear of being shot be some recreational pharmaceutical dealer who would have to find something productive to do with his life were it not for the ludicrous profits illegal drugs produce we, perhaps, could attract a better group of candidates to do a less frightening job. Any profession improves if the quality of entrants improves and the risk/benefit gets better. That is the heart of conservatism. Seems to me that if improving the quality of police is a social goal the logical thing to do is stop the War on Drugs. No more gang banger, improved quality of police. Win, win.
Drug addiction, which is something you advocate, is the closest thing to absolute authority over someone's life, second only to demonic possession.
Already happening. Law enforcement looks at what is worth pursuing and what is not. Ridiculous, petty bullshit gets the attentions it deserves. Sales of drugs to children gets a major focus. Meth, etc is a major problem.
Normal people smoking pot is not a problem. Sure, they terrorize a 7-11 snack aisle, but isn’t really a major problem.
Put the focus on the true problems, not the politically expedient wastes of time that target normal people.
Your hysterical misrepresentation is deplorable.
Colorado and Washington are performing an experiment with legalization. This is one of the beautiful things about states and nations that can set their own policies.
When we had marijuana decriminalization, the main effect was that some people shifted from alcohol to marijuana. Marijuana use and marijuana-related misbehavior went up, but alcohol use and alcohol-related misbehavior went down. We did not have much of the drug gateway effect (people progressing from marijuana to hard drugs).
Legalization is another level. With legalization, you can use licensing and taxation to control supply, as with alcohol, tobacco and gambling. So, legalization isn’t not the same thing as candy bars. But you have to be on the lookout for the drug gateway effect, the possibility of crime, and also the possibility that a lifestyle of drug use and welfare will replace a lifestyle of sobriety and work.
As life becomes tough for more and more people, with stagnant wages, higher taxes, Obamacare, and so forth, there is the possibility that more people will say to hell with it. Why form a family or get a job, when I can live off food stamps, play video games, watch cyber porn and smoke dope?
Yea oops is right. This has to be a joke. Reefer Madness all over. Let’s ban alcohol too.
Normal people don't smoke pot.
The true source of the crime is that the marijuana business in CO has been locked out of the banking system so they have to use cash and that means that there is a lot of cash.
Saturday Evening Post in January 1951: “Someone once asked Slick Willie Sutton, the bank robber, why he robbed banks. The question might have uncovered a tale of injustice and lifelong revenge. Maybe a banker foreclosed on the old homestead, maybe a banker’s daughter spurned Sutton for another.
Sutton looked a little surprised, as if he had been asked “Why does a smoker light a cigarette?”
“I rob banks because that’s where the money is,” he said, obviously meaning “in the most compact form.” That eye for the simple essential may be the secret of a singular success.”
All of the “war on drugs” warriors are no better than the Prohibitionist on the 1920s and 30s. They have some valid points but they are not above lies, propaganda, and violence. For instance there is credible evidence that the FBI deliberately poisoned alcohol during Prohibition: https://sites.psu.edu/shivensblog/2014/02/20/fbi-poisoning-alcohol-during-prohibition/
A dumb drugged-out population was the dream of social elites since the days of Julian Huxley.
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