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To: Molon Labbie
Legalize it all, give it out free at clinics and let adults make adult decisions with adult consequences.

Legalize, eventually, maybe sooner, decriminalize, easier to accept, but "give it out free at clinics"?

The "War on Drugs" is a war on individual liberty via making it a "War" justifies the creation of a police state, which then mandates its use to justify spending the money for it, which starts that vicious circle turning and turning.

This legislated "cure" is far worse than the "disease" and most certainly isn't the cure, just a cause for greater/worse unintended consequences. At least, I think they're unintended.

This progressive mental illness is killing us. We need to get our thinking back to our philosophical and ideological sources...

"Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government."
~Thomas Jefferson Opinion on Residence Bill, 1790

39 posted on 06/07/2012 6:26:12 AM PDT by GBA (To understand what is happening to America and why, read The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn)
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To: GBA

Here is why I say give it free at clinics.

The illicit narcotics trade is an uncontrolled and unregulated market where extreme violence is motivated by the profit, which is incredibably huge.

Take away the profit, the violence greatly abates. Take away the profit from the street gangs, the violence abates. Take away the need to pay, the associated property crimes perpetrated by the users greatly abates.

This, of course, would most certainly get into to bed with those organizations that control the supply side of the equation but here is the trade off.

Violence goes down, personal freedoms go back up, the militarization of the police recedes, and the Constitution is restored.

The drug use is a morality issue, and we must not have the police become too ensconced in morality issues or we are on our way to the same islamo-fascist morality police like the Taliban used to have.

If people abuse the narcotics, they will do it a safe, enclosed enviroment where they will never have to commit crimes to support their habit. Nor will they have to spend time in a correctional institute that does nothing for them and indeed keeps violent offenders out on the street on probation status.


40 posted on 06/07/2012 7:41:45 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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