Posted on 06/18/2006 9:22:25 AM PDT by SittinYonder
No.
We cannot maintain and continue the current state of affairs. The costs in terms of tax dollars and the eroding of our individual liberties are exorbitant.
Are you questioning my committment?
To properly evaluate Mr. Pearson's statement, we must ask if Mr. Pearson would have a problem making his house payment, car payment, buying groceries and paying bills if the Scottish war on drugs vanished. 
But you believe someone else should do it for you?
I believe you said something about piling up bodies = winning the War on Drugs.
However, no it seems you are not willing to do the dirty work of piling up the bodies of drug users.
If the same ingenuity was applied to food production as cannabis production, we could feed a trillion.
Mrs VS
No, the "war" IS an expression of one of society's worst sicknesses - namely, the utopian desire to "improve" humanity.
To H*ll with it.
Would you impose a death penalty for adultry and divorce?
Some would say those crimes of life do far more damage then anyone ever taking a hit of pot.
I'd pile up bodies of terrorists. Seems SittinYonder knows somewhere deep down that the WoD is a fraud.
My belief is that if we are going to have a war against illegal drugs, then we should also have a war against "legal" or prescribed drugs.
My ex-wife's quack doctor has her on an anti-depressant called Cymbalta. I believe that it has made her nuts. She will call me up one week saying she wants to get back together, then the next week she hates me again. And she forgets things and makes up crazy stories, which she did not do before she was put on this so-called anti-depressant. In a fallen world, everyone is going to depressed at some point in time, but instead of just accepting that and dealing with it we have instead bought into the lie that we need medication and therefore have made drug companies and doctors rich.
Exactly. That's why lying and divorce and greed aren't illegal.
But somehow the drug war lives on. Even though probition didn't work somehow we are under the impression that eventually the drug war will.
You can't make people make the right choices for themselves.
You have to let people be self destructive.
I'm proposing what I believe is the only solution for winning the WOD. I'm not interested in executing people myself.
I also don't execute murderers.
They have also stopped drug executions because there would have to be so many, there would be a civil war.
After the massive earthquake in Bam, the UN and American relief agencies had to buy and distribute heroin to keep the 10,000+ junkies from dying of withdrawal, creating more casualties than the earthquake.
Penalties and punishment won't ever work by themselves. The main result of prohibition has been the enriching and empowering of the drug cartels.
The greatest fear of all drug users is getting caught. Until you can over-counter that with a more powerful alternative not to use, drug users will not quit.
Ask any drug addict how big their habit is and they will tell you that it solely depends on how much money they have.
That's the reality folks.
You don't declare war on your own people, families and friends.
Secure the borders, provide realistic and effective treatment, completely decriminalize marijuana, stop the farming of poppies and cocaine in foreigh countries anyway we have to. We have to get Congress to pull it's head out of where the sun don't shine, on this problem.
We don't have a national war on adultry and divorce. If we did, I suspect it would move along very much like the WOD does. And then I suppose that I would probably weigh the costs of that WoAaD and come to a similar conclusion.
Of course, that's a strawman, isn't it? The topic of discussion is the WOD, not the WoAaD.
Very little at the state and especially Federal level these days is as simple as "right and wrong".
And very few, if any, politicians operate on pure principle, unless we are talking about financial principle, these days.
Hate being such a "wet blanket" on a holiday.
But em are the facts as I see them.
Of course I have been becoming more and more cynical with age. Perhaps that is it and we really do have a "righteous society representing our Republic".
I think everyone above the age of 18 (who wants to do drugs) should be supplied with any / all free drugs that they can shove down their gullet.
The "drug problem" would be over in about 6 months. It's the easiest cheapest solution.
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