Posted on 02/05/2018 7:25:38 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Association of German Criminal Officers (BDK) has spoken out in favor of ending the ban on cannabis, and has called for the decriminalization of all use of the drug.
“The prohibition of cannabis has historically been seen as arbitrary and has not yet been implemented in an intelligent and effective manner,” the head of BDK, André Schulz, told Bild newspaper on Monday.
“In the history of mankind, there has never been a society without the use of drugs; this is something that has to be accepted,” he added. “My prediction is cannabis will not be banned for long in Germany.”
The BDK, therefore, advocates a “complete decriminalization of cannabis use,” Schulz said, adding that the current legal system is stigmatizing people and promoting criminal careers. …
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easier than now?
No. Stupid is fighting an unwinable war.
You can make that same argument on enacting any law.
“In the history of mankind, there has never been a society without the use of drugs...”
Mr. Schultz is quite the scholar if he has studied every society in the history of mankind, and perhaps a time traveler too. Or maybe that is hubris speaking?
People who hate life and want to escape reality will “abuse themselves” on gasoline and paint thinner if you give them no other options. In the USSR during desperate times, addicts would steal old shoes/belts and scrape the glue to smoke it.
Cannabis would be the best option for such sick people. It is impossible to overdose nomatter how hard you try and no permanent damage has ever been observed. They can easily return to society. With exception of smoke damage, it has never harmed a single cell of any type.
And thanks to legalization, smokeless methods of consumption are becoming more popular than smoking. They have lab tested vaporizers and pills that are completely clean.
“You can make that same argument on enacting any law.”
The difference here is that enforcing the law makes things worse.
If you target relatively benign drugs, addicts will use toxic household chemicals that are legal but fry their brains. After abusing things like solvents/gasoline/paint, they can never be rehabbed.
People dying in the streets from huffing chemicals would be the result IF the WOD actually made any dent in the drug market. You cant stop it because countless people will always be willing to grow a plant that sells for more than gold. And countless people will risk jail/death to escape their sh** life. Even if the penalty is death...
You can make that same argument on enacting any law.
No you can't - in the USA, 2 in 3 murders get solved, whereas the fraction of drug "crimes" that even get detected is probably no more than 2 in 3,000.
Laws against consensual acts of adults fail because everyone involved wants the act to succeed and go undetected ... unlike, say, murder.
The argument is that people will break the law, so why have laws if they’re going to do that ? It’s “unwinnable.”
Garbage. Sweden has some of the harshest drug laws in Europe, yet is under perhaps the worst muslim invasion.
Thank you Chuck Shumer for your fake tears.
Laws against consensual acts of adults fail because everyone involved wants the act to succeed and go undetected ... unlike, say, murder.
The argument is that people will break the law, so why have laws if they’re going to do that ? It’s “unwinnable.”
No it's not - I told you why the war on pot is far less winnable than the war on murder.
Do you propose they legalize drugs in Sweden to make the invasion more palatable ?
My point is that mj laws have nothing to do with resisting the muslim invasion.
Naw, let Muslims smoke so much pot that they get mellow and forget about jihad.
Jihadists bent on an imminent jihadist act will go profligate because Allah won’t care. What if in this final fling before their sacrifice they tried pot and got too mellow to carry out the act?
No, you can’t. Drugs are a commodity. Money. When you have a problem with money you get control of the money and you get control of the problem.
I’ll be 28 years sober off the booze this month, by the grace of God and AA. If Prohibition had still been the law of the land I’d have still been a drunk. Next to slavery Prohibition was the worst social legislation ever enacted. 100 years of a war on drugs, a ‘’domestic Vietnam’’ if you will and drugs are as plentiful as ever. Anytime America has declared ‘war’’ on some facet of the human condition we’ve ended up with more of what the ‘’war’’ was supposed to eliminate. War On Poverty created more of it. War On Drugs is doing the same. Legalize the crap and tax the hell out of it. Taxes are the quickest way to kill anything. And consider this. The odds of a 16 years kid getting served booze are probably about a 100 to 1, conservatively. Do you suppose drug dealers ask for ID?
And stripped of all emotion and (dubious) morality drugs are a commodity. That means money. When you have problem that involves money you get control of the money and you get control of the problem.
Might as well legalize ‘em all, the drugs and the illegals. If it’s all gonna go to $hit, what’s the point of laws ?
If you feel that way, then go ahead and roll over for the muzzies.
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