Posted on 08/25/2013 8:46:19 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Please do not be guilty of the above when considering the legalization of all recreational drugs. Anyone is legally permitted to kill himself slowly with tobacco, once addicted. Equally, a person may legally drink himself to death and/or wreck the lives of those around him with a bottle a day. For such people we have compassion. But for the users of illegal drugs, most of us have only contempt.
It is difficult (impossible, actually) to understand the logic of making certain drugs illegal. Apart from legality, what is the difference between smoking a “joint” and having a beer? Further, doing a “line” of cocaine makes for an apt comparison with having a dry martini. Oh, the “gateway” routine? Well, weed may be a “gateway” drug but Budweiser and nicotine are the “gateways” to weed. Shall we continue this line of reasoning??
Society is visited with problems from both legal and illegal drugs but the illegal ones support a criminal culture that is bankrupting...
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Since January 1, 2013 until this moment, Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:12:37 AM, the government has already spent $35,068,730,322 of taxpayer money, on a "Drug War" that has a record of failure unequaled in history. |
That's just the FedMob expenditures. Then there are the state expenditures...
The state portion of the Drug War costs comes from a report titled, "Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State Budgets", authored by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, in 2001, which in its press release and on page 3, shows that states spent $30.7 billion in 1998
IMO only the real sick people should get it, not the phony $40 notes from pot doctors.
We are going to pay soon for this acceptance. More brain defective children. More unfulfilled lives. Far more violence will happen as well IMO.
Leave the stuff for cancer patients and the like.
Which address NONE of the points I made.
/johnny
This isn’t some libertarian, individual “right”, as the impacts to society are long term and severe.
Get it yet?
Good!
You won’t mind then, if 50 states recognize the concerns I addressed, and make laws accordingly?
The feds are overstepping their constitutional authority. Regardless of how you feel about drugs, do you want to trash the Constitution for the war on drugs?
Move the police powers back to the States, where it belongs.
/johnny
You and I are in complete agreement, Johnny, I just want my money eliminated from the system before those who use drugs already see this as a way of life. For example, I live in a very low-income county and it is just known that you don’t go anywhere on the first, second, third, or last day of the month. I teach at our local public school and my husband is on our local fire department. We see everyday, first hand, the drug use in the “urban culture.” legalizing will make the problem worse and bring it out into the public even more. So until some of those people literally die in the gutter because my tax dollars aren’t going to their treatments and od hospital stays, I don’t think this plan will work. If the government safety net still exists, expect very bad problems from legalization. Again, I agree that fed gov has no business regulating or declaring war against these substances.
Have you ever considered that maybe the entire purpose for the War on Drugs is NOT to prevent addiction but exists to create ARMIES of DEMOCRAT voting workers, in mindless bureaucracies across the nation, who pay dues to the DEMOCRAT UNIONS? ( Yeah! I am shouting.) And...To line the pockets of corrupt legislators and police officials?
The War on Drugs is NOT preventing drug addiction in the least. Not at all. Not a jot! But....It is causing a corruption of the rule of law.
I don't expect Texas would legalize much, heck we've still got dry counties here.
Put the fed back in the constitutional box.
/johnny
We all draw a line. On the farm kids as young as 10 drive trucks, tractors - You will not find this behavior in a populated area for a good reason.
All drugs (including alcohol) that are overused lead to personal and more importantly community issues. The old English TORT law may be a viable option to ameliorate the family of the people harmed by the over-users of drugs. The family of the drug user would also be exposed to this TORT penalty
If you check your own state laws, you will find they already did.
You are also paying for all that you mention and making sure that our corrupt legislators pockets are lined with the money of the cartels and NO ONE is being prevented from being a drug addict as I type.
When little ‘ole me, a 60 year old grandmom, could find illegal drugs within a 15 minute drive from her home, then there is NO War on Drugs. There is merely a Democrat voting machine pretending to be a War on Drugs.
The left loves the drug war, because it makes the right complicit in their abuse of the Commerce Clause.
Those figures will not go down with legalization under the current one party, bleeding heart system that we have. If anything the costs will rise. We will have more “free” clinics for users, more medical coverage under obamacare, more gov subsidized clean needle pickup stations, more AIDS prevention and awareness, etc. You really think legalization with the current crop of pols is going to lessen our costs? Please! They will find a way to spend even more money! Get some true conservatives in office willing to pull the plug on welfare subsidies and NOT create NEW subsidies for users, and then legalize everything.
I don’t even have to drive 15 minutes. See my post #75.
Quite the conservative.
/johnny
“It was legal until 1913, I think. “
We also did not have a Federal Tax code. Let us return to those care days once again
The War on Drugs exists to provide middle class jobs to armies of government bureaucrats who vote Democrat and belong to unions that money launder funds directly into the pockets of legislators. The War on Drugs also exists so the corrupt politicians can hand out favors to those in the highest levels of organized crime.
“The Godfather” was true.
/johnny
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