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Posted on 03/02/2007 12:19:12 PM PST by Equality 7-2521
What kind of libertarian would I be if I didn’t start my new blog with the first entry calling for an end to the drug war?
Too often legislation is passed to deal with a social issue. Sometimes this hastily passed legislation seems like a common-sense solution, but more often than not the results are diametric to those intended. The drug prohibition is one of these solutions. Sure, on the face of it, the goals of the drug war seem sensible, humanitarian, just. Who can debate that drug abuse can’t destroy lives? It is easy to see the lack of real achievement in the lives of those saddled with addiction. However, many seemingly drug-related problems are actually prohibition related problems. Some of the related problems wouldn’t even exist in a world with legal drugs. This is demonstrated by the fact that they didn’t exist until the drugs were made contraband.
It is time to consider ending the War on Drugs because the monetary and social costs far exceed any possible benefits. The economic cost of the war is counted in the billions of dollars annually, while the social costs include high crime rates, an erosion of American civil rights, and the subordination of other foreign policy concerns to drug eradication policies.
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Thanks for keeping up the fight over the weekend.
He's been right since the 10's!
lol
Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, LIBERTY, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will.
Doesn't matter what you think. For the government to enforce it's will on people's liberty is unconstitutional. That's why the government came up with the Controlled Substances Act and it took until 1970 for this to happen. It was another way twist up the constitution from it's original meanings.
Yes, I'm a libertarian. Individual freedom is a long lost tradition in America...
Oh the paradox of it all.
Welcome
I have found it disheartening the way our rights and liberties have been slowly eroded over time.
The old Roscoe was much better than this . . .
Should I swat harder?
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