PING!
The RCC has always been a friend of tyranny.
Including legal drugs makes this interesting and provocative. More people are harmed by legal than illegal drugs now.
Maybe the pope should take on BigPharma.
Assuming that all the article is true, it still isn’t working
I attended a funeral service Saturday for a friend’s kid who was a user.
Drugs have devastated the town they live in. Evil results, but evil results despite our drug control.
I’ve concluded there is a group of people who are predisposed to abuse drugs or alcohol. Prohibition didn’t change the group of alcoholics. Drug control hasn’t changed the group of addicts. Both groups ruin their lives. Both do it despite the laws, the militarization of police, the incarceration of a generation, the rampant crime and murder that has shifted overseas to control the supply of drugs that responds to the demand in our country.
I don’t like it, but there it is. I no longer support it, or incarceration for recreational use. At some point, if someone wants to drink themselves to death, they do. If they want to blot out all reality and pain in their lives through drug use, they do.
It might be money better spent to send special forces to hunt down and kill the cartels that grow, ship and smuggle drugs to us. But even then, it won’t stop the problems.
Legalizing drugs does not legitimize drugs. The legal prohibition of drugs drive the price up and causes the high profits which make traffickers so vicious. The Holy Father is spot on about drugs being a moral issue, but he is wrong to delegate those moral issues to secular governments.
Now that CO and WA have legalized mj, do you support their 10th Amendment authority to carry out the policy?
The Framers of the Constitution of the United States described in its preamble a number of values to be protected by our government...
What is a stake if our personal freedom.
LOL, gotta love the Jesuits.
No one, and I mean absolutely no one, can do to words, what Jesuits can do to words.
Even Satan stands in awe.
What is a stake if our personal freedom. No society is truly free when the members of such a society are slaves to chemicals
Ditto to this.
Druggies don’t live in isolation. Their addiction always impacts others. Taxpayers foot the healthcare bill of poor druggies. Taxpayers pay for social services which are used when druggies neglect & abuse children.
I never see drug legalazation advocates mention how others are negatively by a druggie
Just sayin'
Rolling a phatty and putting on my flame retardent under wear. Christians and drug warriors with fresh meat. Should be a good one
All well and good, until people start imagining they see enumerated powers in scripture.
Is there any evidence that the war on drugs has even slowed the use of drugs? When any 14 year old can score at any time of the day or night I am doubtful that there is anything positive coming out of the war on drugs.
It is certainly right to preach being drug free (I’ve never even puffed a joint) but drug laws seem to serve little purpose.
Okay, so: I can get a prescription for hydromorphone (hospital heroin) for my many and chronic pains, if I want.
If I did, I’d be going through my day smashed on synthetic heroin.
Would that be a sin?
If morals mattered, or if ethics mattered, or if personal responsibility mattered you could control drugs. Absence of shame, you can't control...
out of wedlock pregnancies (abortion), drugs (either recreational or prescription), prostitution, etc..
Sometimes reality sux.
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