8.1 tons confiscated as 100 tons comes in undetected. End the war on drugs. Legalize it. Regulate it. Take away the allure of it. It will bring the price down and then you'll end the crime associated with cartels and hit a very imporants funding source for Terrorists as they won't be able to profit from it as much as they are now. But, we never learn from what we experienced from Prohibition.
I guess this will cause a slight bump up in the cost of cocaine and crack, more profits for the guys who didn't have their shipments seized, and a slight uptick in theft crimes from addicts to pay for their addictions.
It will bring the price down huh? Kinda like Cigarettes being legal so the price has come down, right?
Let's not forget that while USS Steven W. Groves is tasked with stopping a very small % of the Peruvian marching powder that makes it into the US, the Iranians are building up their forces in the Persian Gulf, the Chinese are building a blue-water navy, and tinpot dictators like Chavez and Kim threaten their neighbors and world peace in general.
The Groves would be much better put to use defending Americans against their foreign enemies instead of wasting its time chasing vice peddlers.
[Regulate it. Take away the allure of it. It will bring the price down and then you'll end the crime associated with cartels and hit a very imporants funding source for Terrorists as they won't be able to profit from it as much as they are now. But, we never learn from what we experienced from Prohibition]
I dissagree. Alcohol Vs Cocaine/Crack/Heroin/Etc. in the context of prohibition is like comparing Gasoline and Nitroglyceron. They are very different substances with few likenesses. They both effect brain function and feeling. Sure, alcohol is a weakness for many that is linked to bad behavior. But the harder stuff (crack/heroin/)only takes a couple of thrills to completely consume the functional rational of a person. There are drunks that live life drink to drink. But not everyone who drinks is a drunk. Most of those who do the hard stuff more than very rarely, end up hooked. There is no such thing as a casual crack smoker (just once or twice a week). They are then a slave to the drug and cease to be able to function positively. There are those who have tried it and not been hooked. I know some who do it once or twice a year. But I know far more that "tried it" a couple of times and woke up to real life a few years later in rehab. In those few years, they have felony records, no family, no friends, no money, no house and usually have left a wake of destruction.
What Prohibition? Possession was legal. Doctors could prescribe whiskey as "medicine." Low alcohol beer was legal. Law enforcement officers couldn't enter establishments that were serving it. It was Prohibition in name only.
Like that's a good thing? Got a survey that shows this is what Americans want -- cheap recreational drugs available at the checkout counter next to the candy?
All you would have to do to change your mind is walk into a house where this stuff is being used regularly. Look around at the squallor, the children, the abject horror of the living conditions, the sheer lack of quality of life, where the consumptionnext hit of the drug is the center of focus, and you'd change your mind.
This is not some intellectual excercise, it's hell.