I’m sure all the dead people in Mexico know all about NOTHING can stop people from using or buying drugs.
And users pretend to think nobody gets hurt by their actions.
FREEDOM AND PRIVACY MUST BE COMPLETELY DEAD before any laws can forcibly stop people from getting intoxicated. Is that really what you want?
The dead people in Mexico and elsewhere are dead BECAUSE of prohibition giving such money and power to the criminals. The ONLY way reduce drug abuse is to take the incredible profit out of it and target the problems that cause people to abuse substances in the first place. Forcibly attempting to stop people from using and dealing only ensures this unstoppable market stays incredibly profitable, underground and in the hands of violent criminals. Read about the countless similar machine gun massacres that happened during alcohol prohibition. Read about entire families like the Kennedys that became filthy rich from alcohol. Today’s prohibition creates similar results: incredible violence and drug kingpins making the Forbes 500! When was the last time you heard of turf wars, gun battles or kingpins arising from alcohol? During PROHIBITION, of course!
Allow me to explain from the beginning. I discussed these topics in more detail before and have linked to those posts. I hope you and many others can read and understand:
Chemically altering ones mood is an older phenomenon than humanity itself. Many animals purposely consume wild alcohol, mushrooms, molds, etc. In fact, animals under stress will consume even more of these substances: http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/03/11662/deprived-sex-jilted-flies-drink-more-alcohol
It is IMPOSSIBLE to stop such a natural, ingrained phenomenon as long as people have even a few minutes of freedom/privacy. Even in prisons and police states, people still abuse drugs. Because of the demand, there will ALWAYS be a supplier because people are willing to pay as much (or more) for these easily-made chemicals as gold! Since there is no victim to report the crime, 99% of drug transactions go completely unreported and most dealers are never caught. Iran very publically executes 400+ drug dealers every year and they have not made a dent in their addiction rates. In North Korea, synthetic drugs are often easier to get than food. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855733/posts#20
You can’t magically seal the border to prevent imports. Remember, hundreds of thousands worth of product can be moved inside small remote controlled subs, drones, stratospheric balloons, etc. Tens of thousands in product can be concealed inside someone’s stomach! During alcohol prohibition, the runners had to move an entire truck to make that much profit and they STILL got away with it.
Even if you did somehow seal the border and keep out every intoxicating plant substance, people would simply grow the plants indoors for an even higher price(more profit) or simply create new synthetics to take their place. Many of these synthetics are created with not much more than kitchen utensils. They keep federally banning synthetic drugs but new replacements are secretly sold on GROCERY STORE SHELVES before the law is even signed. There are potentially an infinite number of compounds that will bend people's minds. Many have proven to be worse than even the most destructive “old” drugs and we have no clue what they do to people. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2934368/posts?page=33#33
The government knows any real drug control is IMPOSSIBLE so they do what they do best and “never let a crisis go to waste”. They simply manage the trade and have certain people/groups reap incredible profits from this natural, ingrained phenomenon. They also use these pointless laws to increase fear and hysteria. A fearful and hysteric people are more open to more government control, intrusion and taxation.
There are countless innocent US citizens in prison for having drugs planted on them. Many for political and personal reasons. There are laws that automatically make possessing a tiny palmable object a felony with no other necessary evidence. In some places all of your property will be seized by the state if the right package and materials find their way into your possession. Such a package can easily be hidden in a cops pocket. How is this BARN DOOR FOR GOVERNMENT ABUSE not obvious to everyone?
The biggest dope dealers in the world are the major drug makers that ship entire warehouses of product around the world. Just one class of their drugs (synthetic opiods) kill more people than every illegal drug COMBINED. The “legal drug” industry propaganda is quite good - Think about how many people out there would jail someone for growing a pot plant yet ignore the drug companies pushing for laws that FORCIBLY DRUG OUR YOUNG CHILDREN in schools with amphetamines and make them future addicts for LIFE. Think about how many people who have problems in their lives are simply prescribed addictive, mood-altering “antidepressant” or “anti-anxiety” pills for life to cover it up. Think about how many ghost-white shaking addicts stand in front of pharmacies every morning waiting for that legal high. As long as “insurance” pays for the pills to maintain these addicts for life, nobody cares. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2912457/posts?page=79#79
Our own Federal government has been caught “managing” the drug trade in foreign nations since at least the 1980s. The reporter that first uncovered this was found dead of a “suicide” with two gunshots to the head.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2927379/posts?page=8#8