Posted on 11/06/2017 9:11:50 AM PST by Brian Griffin
I know this proposal will be met with strong opposition, but it is my firm belief that the 108-year old 'War on Drugs' needs to come to an end. It has turned into a decades-long war on millions of our young people.
It would be replaced with FDA-supervised quality control systems for supplies of comparatively safe recreational drug forms, probably reducing the number of overdose deaths by over 98% (~50,000/year -> ~1,000/year).
Manufacturers, distributors, retailers and customers would have to get DEA licenses.
There would be three forms of customer DEA licenses: casual user, habitual cocaine user and habitual opiate user costing $100, $200 and $300 respectively and good for one year after issue.
The requirement for licenses, their cost and their annual form would greatly restrict the customer base.
The habitual user licenses would only be available to those with paid-up recreational drug medical (ER treatment and methadone taper) and burial/cremation expense coverage provided by DEA-licensed entities.
The customer DEA licenses would be only available to legal residents and citizens at least 21 years of age.
Application would be as for passports but the picture of the person must be three times the size.
The licenses would be similar to a passport. Each one would have an electronic chip enabling dispensers to pull up the licensee's picture and dispensing information quickly.
The habitual cocaine user license would only be good for cocaine beverages.
The habitual opiate user license would only be good for methadone or codeine beverages. These beverages would come in three colors:
a. yellow for concentrations unlikely to kill novice users
b. orange for concentrations that might kill novice users
c. red for concentrations that would likely kill novice users
The DEA would also manage a laboratory and prescribing system that habitual opiate users would have to use to buy concentrations other than yellow. Prescriber/laboratory pricing might be reasonably controlled by state law.
The beverages would come in two-liter bottles. There would be a $3/liter federal tax. The purchase of 365 two-liter bottles would mean federal tax revenue of $2,160 per year per habitual user. Retail pricing might be reasonably controlled by state law.
The DEA would run a system to ensure that within any thirty-day period no more than sixty liters of product could be bought by a habitual user license holder.
The DEA would run a system to ensure that within any five-day period no more than one liter of cocaine soda product and/or one ounce of marijuana could be bought by a casual user license holder.
There would be no additional replacement allowed for lost or stolen bottles or marijuana.
People might try to make crack from their cocaine soda by boiling or evaporation, but they might burn up their 30-day ration within about one week.
Retailers would have to print and attach a label with your picture (and the customer's maximum authorized concentration by color & shade) to each bottle sold.
Possession of a bottle without a label with the possessor's picture except by a retailer, distributor or manufacturer would be punishable with a $100 fine per bottle.
Customer license holders would be forbidden to sell or transfer any recreational drug product. Unlawful transfer would be punishable by license revocation. Any sale or any transfer to a person not properly licensed would be punishable by up to two years imprisonment and a five-year licensure bar.
A state may revoke, according to its law(s), any DEA license of any person found in possession of or driving a motor vehicle in the state, subject to judicial review and reinstatement for just cause.
A habitual opiate user with a revoked/suspended/cancelled license would have to seek out and get on buprenorphine/naloxone maintenance or a traditional methadone taper.
An employer in an industrial zone, possessing equipment required to emit backup noise or in the business of passenger transport may block/suspend employee and contract employee DEA licenses for a $100/employee annual fee. A person would have to pay $10 via a DEA website to send a reconfirmation letter to their (former) employer. Failure to reconfirm within 30 days of mailing would result in license reinstatement.
A person with a pilot's license or commercial or motorcycle driving license in effect shall be barred from getting a DEA license.
A person getting a pilot's license, commercial or motorcycle driving license shall have their DEA licenses cancelled.
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