Giving up the "War on Drugs"

Iowa State Daily ^ | September 26, 2003 | Steve Skutnik

[MrLeRoy]

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[maestro]

Giving up the "War on Drugs"

We are leaving Afganistan?

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[swarthyguy]

Profits and Procurement. Too much of one and a driving force of the other.

Well, what are cops gonna do for perks if stop the WoD?

[CanadianLibertarian]

Hey if Victorian England could survive and build a mighty empire while drugs were legal, I think we can survive decriminalization. One can lead a responsible life even while afflicted by drug use, even be a genius and a gentleman while afflicted by drug use. Hell even Sherlock Holmes was a heroin addict.

[Orangedog]

Well, what are cops gonna do for perks if stop the WoD?

There's always barber college.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It has not been a failure at all. Civil forfeiture is extremely lucrative.

[Orangedog]

Hell even Sherlock Holmes was a heroin addict.

I'll point it out here before one of the drug warriors jumps on you with both feet...Sherlock Holmes was not a real person.

[jmc813]

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[CanadianLibertarian]

Yeah I know ol' Sherlock was not real..but the archetype of the gentleman user is very real. Just trying to illustrate that drug users are not necessarily monsters who will destroy society if given half a chance.

[MrLeRoy]

Hell even Sherlock Holmes was a heroin addict.

I thought it was cocaine.

[alpowolf]

"a seven-percent solution"

[CJ Wolf]

Crack, horse and Crystal meth. But he started with pot. The drug use came to roost though, he could never solve his last case, who stole the hemp pipe. It was elementary though, dear watson was now hooked on the hooka.

[biblewonk]

But in reality we're still recruiting and sending more soldiers to the front.

[CanadianLibertarian]

Hell even Sherlock Holmes was a heroin addict.

I thought it was cocaine

Was it? I thought that was exclusively a New World thing at the time. I thought a Brit would favor an opiate, as that stuff was coming over in huge amounts from China. I dont think Conan Doyle went into a great deal of detail about what drug it was, except that it was injected, so I figured it was heroin.

[robertpaulsen]

"But he started with pot."

Ah, that gateway drug.

[The_Reader_David]

Holmes was fictional, but the reason Conan Doyle allowed him the single vice of injected cocaine use, was that he himself used the 'seven percent solution'. Observe that Doyle was a successful and prolific author, not a broken criminalized junkie eaking out a meagre living due to the exhorbitant cost of his habit. The difference? The state had not pushed trade in cocaine into the hands of criminal gangs and run up the cost to users.

[cadillac cowboy]

Civil forfeiture is extremely lucrative.

Too bad civil forfeiture never caught up with Joe 'criminal bootlegger and willing scofflaw'' Kennedy when it would have done some good.....

"Indeed, it was the bootlegging racket that enabled common thugs like Al Capone to become powerful criminal overlords."

[alpowolf]

Heck, we can't end the drug war just yet. We gotta bust that evil druggie, Rush...