Consider, how many alcohol deaths do we have every year? Prohibition didn’t work, did it? No, thanks to the bootlegging industry we now have a bunch of Kennedys in Congress.
Alcohol is addictive, we have a plethora of drunks, generations of abused women and traumatized children. We have drunks killing innocents on our highways, we have kids getting drunk and believing that they are better drivers.
So, prohibition doesn’t work; it makes scumbags get rich, it makes the contraband even more desirable, and results in the advancement of more addictive and more concentrated drugs to be discovered. Everclear didn’t exist until the Prohibition era - gee, nice one guys. Pre-Prohibition, beer and wine was considered ‘high class’ and whiskey, vodka and Gin were considered the stuff that drunks and bums drank. This is the law of unintended consequences.
Compare pot today, with the weed available in the 70’s. The THC levels in modern pot are far greater than they were 30 years ago. That is a fact, it’s measureable and quantitative. Why? After millions of years, did marijuana suddenly decide to increase it’s THC content, or were the plants bred to produce THC in higher concentrations? Hint: Those plants didn’t exist 30 years ago.
30 years ago, we didn’t have Crack cocaine either. Gee, thanks anti-drug lobby. We didn’t have Crystal Meth, PCP or a lot of other new designer drugs. Why do you suppose they were invented?
In the history of the human race; prohibition has never worked. All it does is make the contraband more desireable to the masses, make the criminal element rich, and foster creation of more concentrated forms of the contraband.
Now, before you rush off on an emotional high and say that I’m just tryign to justify a habit - here’s a little bit of fact to ruin your rant.
Never done drugs, never intend to try them.
I just am not willing to place myself, my loved ones, my friends or neighbors in harms way trying to keep an adict from getting enough poison in his system to remove himself permenantly from the gene pool. Wanna kill yourself? Fine by me - I’m for making the poison of your choice cheap, plentiful and legal.
As for the children - when the kiddies see 20% of their friends kill themselves on drugs - drugs won’t be cool anymore.
You really oughta try pot. It's awesome; you won't be sorry.