Spoken like a true Liberaltarian.
Amen!
Replace the drug dealers with politicians and government employees.
And don’t forget the tax revenue on each ounce of crack or pound of pot!
Think of the thousands of new hospitals and prisons we could build to accomodate all the millions of new addicts reduced to poverty and crime as they are too stoned to go to school or work.
Yayy Liberaltarians!!!!
What’s wrong with wanting America to resemble the opium days of China one hundred years ago, anyway?
Prohibition is ALWAYS BAD, ya know?
No....this is what I said: I would be in favor of addicts buying their (discounted) drugs at Walgreen, Thrifty and Rex-All instead of the "Bloods" and the "Crips"...... Wouldn't you? At least they wouldn't be forced to break and enter, acquiring fenceable goods to sell to support their habit.
How you construe this to mean that the government would be in the drug business.....is beyond me. If you believe it is better to have armed gangs soliciting and selling illicit drugs in our society rather than voluntary exchanges taking place between legitimate businesses and customers, then that tells me much about your thinking.
Think of the thousands of new hospitals and prisons we could build to accommodate all the millions of new addicts reduced to poverty and crime as they are too stoned to go to school or work.
Would that be a similar amount to what we had to build and spend when we decided to make spirits available to the free market again?
What in the world would possess you to believe that we would experience an increase in addicts? The exact opposite would be true..... and instead of stealing and committing felonies to support their habit they would probably be able to spend the same amount as they do now for a bottle of aspirin. I don't know of too many folks engaged in criminal activities to support their Excedrin addictions.
What’s wrong with wanting America to resemble the opium days of China one hundred years ago, anyway?
You seem to be the one wanting politicians and government employees involved more and more in our lives....not me. Think of all the judges, attorneys, police officers, D.E.A. personnel and prison officials we could retire to Burger King if the drug problem ceased....and it would. You know, I know it and everyone on this forum knows it!
This nation did not have a drug problem until our benevolent government declared war on drugs! This is much the same as......we did not have a poverty problem until our stupid government declared war on that! Maybe we should declare war on food.....then there would be so much of it available (it would then be illegal) that no one would ever go hungry again.