Feel free to ping the Thomas Sowell list on this if you’d like — up to you.
Pot Heads could solve the debt problem!
Only Nixon could go to China.
“Republican pragmatist”
As opposed to what?
I am a police officer and I am against the war on drugs.
Billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on a endeavor that will never be won nor is there a plan to win it. It has become an industry unto itself, perpetually employing millions in government, the legal field, and all the supportive industries that used to not exist.
There have been more Constitutional challenges in the history of the document since the inception of the war on drugs and tens of thousands die every year because of the violence associated with it.
We cannot legislate morality and frankly, I am tired of American citizens, their animals and my fellow police officers being killed in this unending struggle.
Americans hate to lose fights. I know I do but this is a fight that cannot be won with the current methods. It would be cheaper, both in pecuniary and human capital, just to set up distribution points and issue it to abusers. No gang wars over sales turf, police raids will go back to what they should be for, going after the most violent in society, free up jail space so the most violent can be where they belong, instead of walking free.
IBT Smokem if you gottem.....
(running for the popcorn now...)
If you knew that legalizing weed would defund a million young black males who refuse to work, would you realize that this decision is a no brainer? A less important side effect would be the saving of billions of dollars in prison costs law enforcement and, dare I say it, increased government revenue.
As someone who is staunchly anti-drug-legalization, I have to admit that Sowell has some good arguments.
It says a lot about our society that legalization of narcotics could be seriously and reasonably considered “cutting our losses”. If he is indeed right on that point, are we better off with the druggies or the tyrants? That’s really the only choice that confronts us given the condition of our fellow citizens.
What a sad state of affairs.
I thought you two might enjoy this thread.
Any time a government declares a war on "_______" whatever that "_______" is, it ends up being a war against us, against we, the people.
The casualties will be our wealth, individual rights, freedom and liberty and the problem will not improve.
It's even worse when it's some kind of war against human nature.
With prohibition and now the war on drugs, it's just a matter of time before there are ever growing numbers of human casualties as well.
Prohibition should have taught us to not let our government wage these wars against us and against human nature.
The only winners are the government and the black market.
The drug war will end when the boomer generation dies off. Conservatives from that era—the Nixon era—will never give it up. Drugs=hippies=counter-culture. Hence, it’s one part of the nanny state they just can’t give up. Once they’re all dead and gone, the memory of the 60s culture war will die with them, and we can move on.
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If the drug is statistically safer than cigarettes or booze, you should legalize it unless you are prepared to begin a new Prohibition against cigarettes and booze. The assumed self righteousness of people who want their government approved addictions protected while threatening others using a less harmful, nonaddictive substance with no knock SWAT teams ready blow away your dog and you over a controlled vegetable, is hypocritical, reprehensible, And ludicrous in a so-called “land of the free”.
Both great videos. I love Milton Friedman’s easy way of explaining things.