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| Andrew Somers
Posted on 01/04/2004 10:44:31 AM PST by patdor
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posted on
01/04/2004 10:44:31 AM PST
by
patdor
To: patdor
Away with you and your common sense. We want none of that here!
(Just had to get that out of the way)
Yes, rather than deal with harmful drugs abuse out in the open, like we do with cigarettes and drunk driving, we drive them into the shadows where they are beyond our reach. If we spend half as much educating against the physical effects of harmful drugs as we did pumping money into this game of one cat vs 100 mice, we'd see real trends away from drug use.
Cigarette use is on the decline, but it took a long time to educate free people away from making that choice. If you don't believe that free people, armed with the truth, can make good decisions for themselves, then our Republic is as good as dead. Bring on the nanny state, because freedom's too scary.
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posted on
01/04/2004 10:53:46 AM PST
by
Steel Wolf
("Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.")
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posted on
01/04/2004 10:53:53 AM PST
by
Support Free Republic
(If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
To: patdor
Regulation does not necessarily lead to no black market. It's just a guess. Think the drug lords in South America or Asia will stop selling drugs in this country just because they have competition from the government? Of course not!!
Legalization of any kind will just lead to more people using drugs at more times. Today airline pilots go to work drunk. Tomorrow they would go to work high.
Plus, the "war on drugs" would continue under new laws.
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:02:17 AM PST
by
Ecliptic
(Keep looking to the sky)
To: patdor
The author, Andy Somers, is a friend of mine, a decent guy and one of my ex-flight students. While I agree with him that drug enforcement should be overhauled, he takes the straight-line Libertarian view.
I privately tell him why I feel that he is way off base, and he respects my opinion.
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:02:28 AM PST
by
Restore
To: Steel Wolf
"Bring on the nanny state, because freedom's too scary."I'm afraid we are there now.
To: Restore
Wow, a sensible pro-drug person?
They're usually so stoned out of their minds that you can't really make heads or tails of what they are saying.
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:04:15 AM PST
by
Monty22
To: patdor
Stop using drugs.
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:04:46 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.)
To: Steel Wolf
If you don't believe that free people, armed with the truth, can make good decisions for themselves, then our Republic is as good as dead. One of the clearest and most succint points I've come across in all the time I've been on FR. Hear hear!
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:06:28 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(Don't Tread on Me)
To: patdor
The federal government does not need to do anything, no taxes, no regulations, nothing, just end all federal drug laws, and parole all those on federal drug charges.
The states can do whatever they want to, we still have states and dry counties where alcohol and drinking is regulated at the local level.
To: Restore
"....he takes the straight-line Libertarian view." Make that the Libertine view.
To: patdor
How Do We End The War On Drugs?
The re-legalization of drugs will happen right after pornography, obscenity, blasphemy, abortion, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, promiscuity, and perversion are re-banned.
To: patdor
Hmmmmmmmmm...
Wanna stop the war on drugs? Stop using drugs
Wannna stop being fat? Stop eating so much
Wanna stop the ill effects of cigarettes? Stop smoking
Wanna stop crime? Lock up the criminals
Wanna have smarter children? Teach them better
Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Never work, too complicated
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:09:42 AM PST
by
PeteFromMontana
(Liberal is a dirty word... just call a liberal a liberal and see what they say)
To: patdor
Patently unworkable ...
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:10:27 AM PST
by
_Jim
( <--- Ann Coulter speaks on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
To: patdor
Hmmm, just signed up on 2 Jan 04 and this is your first post. You must feel strongly about this issue.
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:10:33 AM PST
by
Johnny_Cipher
(Meddle not in the affairs of crocodiles, for you are crunchy and good with catsup.)
To: patdor
>>>... the War on Drugs is an abject failure.The American people overwhelming support interdiction and incarceration as the best remedies to control and reduce the spread of illegal drugs in America today. (Pew Survey, Feb.2001) The efforts by America's Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is working well. Could it be better? Yes. But the legalization of illicit substances like marijuana, cocaine and heroin is not the answer. Increased law enforcement efforts are the answer. Education and drug treatment are also part of the equation. We have enough problems with alcohol in our society and shouldn't be opening the flood gates to drug legalization.
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:11:45 AM PST
by
Reagan Man
(The few, the proud, the conservatives.)
To: Johnny_Cipher
Hmmm, just signed up on 2 Jan 04 and this is your first post. You must feel strongly about this issue.
Correction: This is his first recent post.
To: Cultural Jihad
Correction: This is his first recent post. I stand corrected. His first recent post.
(And now I'm off to play my Jim Croce "Bad Bad LeRoy Brown" MP3).
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:14:18 AM PST
by
Johnny_Cipher
(Meddle not in the affairs of crocodiles, for you are crunchy and good with catsup.)
To: patdor
How do we end the War on Drugs? Simple. The same way you end the War on Murder, War on Rape, War on Armed Robbery, etc. Just make it legal. Heck, let's just wipe all criminal laws off the book. This whole "War on Crime" thing just isn't working. After all, we should just trust our fellow citizens to make only good choices, right?
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:15:55 AM PST
by
GLDNGUN
(.)
To: Reagan Man
We have enough problems with alcohol in our society And a great many of them are caused not by drugs, but by the war on drugs.
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posted on
01/04/2004 11:16:14 AM PST
by
patdor
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