Stop calling it a “War”
It’s not . .that’s just political-speak
If the elites really wanted to have a “War on Drugs” they could
They just choose not too. Another reason we have “open borders”
I would eliminate any law or regulation on drugs, except for those that wish to be certified by the FDA for prescription.
It’s not that the WOD has been ineffective (it’s had some effect) or that it puts “our children” at legal risk.
It’s that the WOD has created a Police State without property rights. And a completely dismantled 4th Amendment.
How would this change anything? You’d still be enforcing the drug laws against people without the license, which might be mist people.
Do I, as a taxpayer, have to pay for the various medical conditions and treatments with which habitual drug-users routinely deal?
Do I have to pay for their lifestyle by supporting them on the public dole?
Its good to think outside the box.
On the other hand, my immediate impression of your plan - the FDA and DEA run everything. Fed.gov become the pushers. Leftist will love it. They can tie all their nanny-state treatment schemes to it.
How about banning all drug users from any government aid or assistance?
“It would be replaced with FDA-supervised quality control systems”
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We need a Federal Drug Pusher Agency? Oy.
My proposal:
1. Execute drug smugglers.
2. Imprison drug dealers.
3. Sentence drug users to internal exile.
Details on #3:
It doesn’t make sense to send drug users to prison. Instead send them to special communities to dry out. Each user gets a small bungalow, a food allowance, and a plot of land to plant a garden. And, of course, each community is surrounded by barbed wire.
Defund the DEA and let Darwin do his thing.
You want to end the War on Drugs?
And here you are suggesting some 20-30 new laws, rules, regulations and proposals to do just that?
(insert hysterical laughing here)
You are part of the problem, man. Part of the problem.
Opium Dens for Denizens.
You’ve put some real thought into this, and much of it makes good sense. The weakness probably comes in enforcement, as we could see similar benefits by mandatory drug testing and enforcing existing laws, but we don’t do it.
Maybe the technology is or will exist to insert a biomarker that is impossible to synthesize outside of controlled labs to prevent “bootlegging”, which a controlled distribution system like this would encourage. As soon as you invent a better lock, it incentivizes a better lockpicker.
What takes 2 or 3 pages of legal code to ban outright becomes 2 or 3 thousand pages of management laws, plus a massive, expensive new bureaucracy to manage it.
This can’t possibly be what FreeRepublic has become . . .
Logic fail
End medical welfare benefits.
No hospital or doctor ever has to treat anyone they have not agreed to treat.
No money, no care.
The deadbeat addicts wear out their welcome, and die far younger and having caused far less pain then what we see now. And lets publish every death so young people know the danger.
I graduated at the height of the PCP fad. A lot of my classmates didn't make it until graduation, or died in the next couple of years. The lethality convinced a lot of the heads I went to school with to work at rehab until it worked. The high initial mortality rate saved lives over the long haul.
Just plug them into The Matrix.
Many, in fact, I’d say almost everyone in Hollywood takes legal prescription drugs—drugs to wake up and drugs to go to sleep. I know this for a FACT. The difference in these people and drug addicts lying in the gutter are they get theirs legally from prescriptions their doctors write for them. They have people who look out for them, make sure they eat, etc. They live to be ripe old ages.
Sure, there are a few that go off the rails, but for the most part, this works well for them.
The picture of Weinstein’s drugs in his carry-on is exactly how these people live.
I think you’re on to something.
I find no authority for the DEA nor FDA, let alone the ‘war on XYZ’. Nor do I find the right of travel to be within the purview of govt (in any way, matter, shape nor fashion as one shall wish to do so) and even less so the right to work (IMO, contracts between 2+ willing entities).
Local doesn’t detain/arrest nor revoke the DWI\illegal in many cases. Local doesn’t revoke those of AGE (no further tests of the 90yr old after they ‘passed the *test*’ @ 16).
GOVT is N-E-V-E-R the solution.
This sounds like an idea 3 potsmokers came up with after melting an ice bong.
The gov. runs most state lotteries also known as the old "numbers racket" and engages in the "protection racket" with an agency known as the IRS.
Certain state governments also "regulate" as a partner, the growing and distribution of marijuana products. The only thing left for government to take over is prostitution - which it already has in Nevada.