There was once a 22nd Amendment to the Constitution which decriminalized alcohol. While I am not advocating re-legalizing alcohol or any other DRUG, the 22nd Amendment did cut down on gangland crime. Too bad that we are so progressive now that we realize that history really does not repeat itself!
There’s got to be some kind of free-market solution to all of this violence. Too bad that I am not clever enough to devise such a solution.
Yeah, me either. I really go back and forth on this issue. But just wishing it would go away isn’t going to work either.
Legalize drug use. You can use them recreationally all you want.
If you are caught posessing drugs and test positive while at work or in a motor vehicle, you go to a special prison on an island for 5 years.
On this island there are no cells. You get a decent room and 3 hots. In return, you work for a company making something.
Drugs are non-existent on this island. People are tested weekly or daily, whatever makes sense.
After 5 years you are released back to society.
Companies bid to host this manufacturing site where labor is free, but other costs must be borne by the company and made-up by selling the products manufactured.
Any criminal act on this island and you get sent to a real prison for the remainder of your sentence.
This is just a starting point for discussion.
Legalizing the manufacture, possession and use of drugs, so that wildly high taxes could be collected is a conflict of interest. What would all this overage children who want to kill something DO if they couldn't claim that they were "stopping drug traffic, for the children!"?