Hitler's Drugged Soldiers

I'd say yer right for 99% of the others per my experience as a LEO and watching such crap over time. BUT Meth seems to be the worst of the worst.....extremely low rehab rate. Bad stuff that can makes ones daughter look like their grandmother in a few years. Wish I had the answers and they were as easy as you suggest....willpower.

Wish I had the answers and they were as easy as you suggest....willpower.

Oh, I'm not saying that at all. The opposite, really: Laws or no laws, we will have approximately the same number of addicts, because willpower is not enough, nor is anything else.

Someday, a drug or a theraputic device will come along that cures any addiction. What then? Should we still have "controlled substances?"

My objections to the Drug War are, in order of my own priorities:

1. The cost. It is the vast majority of police and prison costs today. Imagine a world with law enforcement costs one third of what they are today. Cops today are the #2 tax eater after the public schools. Nobody should be surprised that the quality of policing is headed the same direction as the public schools.

2. The cost in freedom. We have perverted our Constitution to fight the Drug War. We "burned the hamlet to save it."

3. Futility. All other crimes are punished for the sake of justice. Drug use and trafficing are a vice and contraband, respectively, and have no connection to injustice. All laws against vice and contraband have been futile since the beginning of time, and a big source of corruption. There is zero chance that police today can change that.

"I'm shocked, but not surprised - this is a logical extension of what happens when the individual exists to serve the state, rather than the other way around."

Yep!

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Very interesting. Doesn't prolonged speed use cause paranoia? Of course in combat that wouldn't be so bad because a lot of people really are out to kill you.:)

IIRC, it does. Also, I remember reading back in the 1970's where a trucker took so much speed, he wrecked his truck because he hallucinated a rattlesnake on the seat next to him. Of course, sleep deprivation would play a role too.

You wouldn't believe how much Folger's and Mt. Dew an Army battalion can go through in a week.

My cousin worked the cats (catapults) on aircraft carriers and they lived on "Alert Five Coffee" where they would brew the coffee, dump it back in to re-brew it and they did this 5 times, hence the name. They also took coffee grounds and sucked on them directly. Dang, you won't get any sleep for 5 days. B-)


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