Posted on 08/09/2008 12:31:09 AM PDT by banthefirstamendment
What ending the War on Drugs can buy.
You can get yourself in real trouble in these parts, buster. They don’t cotton to your kind around here. You’d best be a-moseyin’ on if’n you know what’s good for ya.
IBZT
He sounds alright to me. The War on Some Drugs has been an abysmal failure and is simply waged to maintain jobs for the JBT and to keep the government heel on the throats of the people.
Yep. Let us look to Prohibition for an answer.
I say legalize all drugs. Do it now. Dem turnout would drop dramatically due to 1) overdoses and 2) getting too stoned out of their gourds to find polling places.
I like the idea.
And what happens to the health care system when millions of legal drug addicts need rehab?
1) The government could tax marijuana at the same rate it does cigarettes.
2) In thirty years we would get to hear liberals railing against the evils of "big pot".
Bad:
Too many people, with legalization, would pass through the "gateway drugs" and into the harder stuff -- even more than now.(*)
The late lamented WFB was for legalization IIRC.
(*) Price is governed by supply and demand. So if the price at the store got too high, people wouldn't have to steal to support their pot habit, they'd just grow at home. The question here is how much acreage would be diverted from foodstuffs to narcotics precursor crops, and how complex the laws would be to allow the near-monopoly of big growers. And the coked-up Manhattanites and L.A. crowd would have even fewer checks on their excesses, no threat of arrest. Speaking of that, would you have another type of M.A.D.D. -- Mothers against Druggie Drivers?
I guess I need to add the /sarc tag ;-)
For future reference, may of my posts should be taken with a /sarc
Troll warning. IBTZ, as always.
Ending the war on pre-mature death is probably better. IBTZ
In case you didn’t know, you are supposed to post IN ALL CAPS!!!
A free speech hating nazi libera; posting from a liberterian website. Too bad I missed it.
In After the Zot!!
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