Posted on 02/12/2005 9:52:42 AM PST by fanfan
Just great!
I guess I'm one of the few, but I think that this is a good idea.
The reason: This not only has ramifications for the user and his immediate enviornment, it would have ramifications concerning the growers, traffickers, pushers, etc. If the user can get his stuff free, think what this would do to all theose who make their living off the drug trade. The effect would be the same as the end of Prohibition on bootleggers.
There was a news story recently to the effect that Osama ben Laden and al Qaeda make millions off the drug trade, Those millions are used against us.
Even without the terrorist aspect, free drugs, distributed under tight control, would dry up the international drug cartels.
Further, Prohibition caused the rise of the crime families in the US. Drug prohibition is the cause of the international crime families.
THE EXPERIMENT
WE OFTEN WONDER DEBATE AND QUESTION
what would happen if drugs were legal??
WE WILL SEE
drug addicts break into houses and steal things for drug money... but you don't see alcoholics break into houses for alcohol money.
the reason why is obvious - alcohol is relatively cheap and freely available... winos can legally get hammered with no legal problems.
apply the same principle to heroin.
The money is all ready being spent on the WOD, if this works the only down side is to those in Law Enforcement who take home nice paychecks. This is who the WOD is for, like everything else follow the money.
You are correct give the market a chance.
Less money spent on the WOD = More take home pay.
"Fixing" people.
So maybe they can clean up enough to get "jobs".
...Jobs "fixing" other people.
State-run? Insanity.
Thanks for making the leap.
If drugs were legal the cartels and all their baggage would be left in the dust. How many alcoholics were caused by Prohibition? I would guess quite a few, for the simple reason that many young people want to do and try things that the "old folks" think are bad--they want to rebel. In the late 1940's and on into the 1950's I was one such. (I was also very stupid, but that's another story).
In any case, I think that Prohibition in the 1920's and the so-called war on drugs today parallel each other and that the solution is the same: make it legal
Consider the war on drugs: If we had fought WW II with the same efficency, we'd be speaking German and/or Japanese today.
We should put large notices up in druggie hangouts in the USA that Canada is giving the stuff away.
The druggies will join the DU crowd making a beeline to Canada. (Obviously many druggies are DUers and vice versa.)
The druggies will join the DU crowd making a beeline to Canada. (Obviously many druggies are DUers and vice versa.)
Oh, Thanks. First you send up all your liberals, and now want to send the druggies too? (the ones that aren't DUers) Man! I hate my socialist country some days.
How about we put them into rehab so they can be productive members of society?
<< I guess I'm one of the few, but I think that this is a good idea. >>
Althoug well motivated and headed in the right direction, in that it deals with the symptom and ignores the disease, [Crime] it's an obscene "idea."
There is only one "drug crime" and that is the one called Prohibition.
Repeal that one and EVERY "drug problem" -- and above 90% of the world's crime and corruption -- and, to boot, the filthy loot that, from Singapore to Caracas -- Rangoon to Bogota -- Kuala Lumpur to Khartoum -- drives most of the worlds petty through more-bloody-awful dictatorships -- flies out the window.
BTW, when our government says $8 million, they really mean $4 Billion. Our gun registry was supposed to cost $2 Million, and it's over $1 Billion now, AND, it still doesn't work. Aaarrrgggggg!
They get to wait in lines sometimes over a year, and pay for their own drugs and medical needs while doing so. The medical system could use the 8 million this prgrams is costing, drug addicts can go to hell. This only makes the streets worse, atracting more from all sround.
They get to wait in lines sometimes over a year, and pay for their own drugs and medical needs while doing so. The medical system could use the 8 million this prgrams is costing, drug addicts can go to hell. This only makes the streets worse, atracting more from all sround.
Hmmm, maybe I'm a little slow but are they transitioning these people off of drugs? If so, I'm willing to give this program a chance. If they're just giving them their fix with no end in site except for the end of the program, well then, I have a little problem with that.
Next thing you know, tweakers will want a similar program with the ACLU supporting them.
Hell, I want a similar program, I'm addicted to wine, hook me up!
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