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.
-— I don’t like it, but there it is. I no longer support it, or incarceration for recreational use ——
St. Thomas believed that vices, as bad as prostitution, could be tolerated.legally, if the vice resulting from criminalization outweighed the vice resulting from toleration.
I agree that we seem to have reached that point with respect to the drug war.
Nope.
And then there are the billions spent on advertising and promoting alcohol every year. To kids as well as to adults. Where's the outrage?
A thread on Hello Kitty Beer was posted here yesterday. Some funny comments, of course, but it's a very serious assault on childhood to snare little ones into thinking drinking is just wonderful at a very impressionable age.
Alcohol/ethanol is an addictive drug.