Posted on 12/02/2007 7:00:11 PM PST by cryptical
My sister and her man have been given lots of breaks from me, other family members, state governments, and the federal government. They have recieved sympathy, help, and a great deal of financial support, all to no avail. Now SSI, in other words the taxpayer, is paying their way in the continued abuse of illegal pharmacology.
This nation is deeply in debt. The drug abuse epidemic, and its attendent crimes, will end up destroying our nation unless we get tough about the penalties.
At some point we have to say - NO MORE!
Dream on CC, homegrown is a multi bullion dollar business and none of it comes across the boarders, get a grip.
Article?
More like a mini series.
And, much like moonshine during Prohibition, people will continue to produce and consume.
You seem to be willing to destroy our nation in order to save it. Ask your spin doctor if Incarcerex is right for you.
The drug lords will have to sell the Senate back to us, first. ;)
Hell. Two chances to shape up and quit. Third strike you’re out and executed. Problem eliminated.
What! You stupidly thought I was nice?
I always found it absurd that we spend so much time, money, and energy on marijuana suppliers and smokers when you can just go to your local pharmacy and get thousands of different drugs that are considerably more addictive and more dangerous.
I never have taken any drugs, by the way. But I’m willing to see the failures of the war on it.
Stop the insane war on drugs. Stop the welfare subsidization of drug use. Let people bear the consequences of their own stupidity.
Good analogy. Good post!
Let me guess: you’re a Ron Paul supporter.
Let me guess: you’re a totalitarian supporter.
I thought Free Republic was for conservatives, not holier-than-thou police statists.
No, I’m no totalitarian.
But I’ve lived in countries that have decriminalized usage of addictive drugs. Such liberalization doesn’t work.
You’re highly critical and insulting about my proposed solution. Why haven’t you suggested something - brain dead perhaps? Been shooting up horse?
Legalize the **** and nobody would have to commit crimes to buy it. Abolish the “war on drugs(TM)” and 70* of American crime would evaporate almost instantly.
America has decriminalized usage of addictive drugs too - like nicotine and alcohol.
Funny, we don’t see massive international crime and gang syndicates in either of those markets, except when the taxes are raised too high.
You apparently want to treat a medical problem of addiction not by employing medical experts, but by employing firing squads. And that stance just beggars the imagination, so of course I’m highly critical and insulting about it.
Wrong! Countries like Spain which decriminalized the personal use of drugs experienced a crime wave. I was one of the victims.
We’ve been treating addiction like it’s a medical problem. It doesn’t work worth squat!
Meanwhile entire swathes of this country have been taken over by foreign criminal gangs. There are places where many Americans cannot even walk anymore without being in grave danger.
I am not advocating a totalitarian solution. I am offering an opinion. Make the third conviction for drug abuse a capital crime. This gives people two opportunities to get the monkey off their backs AND a great reason to do so. Three strikes and you’re out!
Oh, yeah, the drug traffickers don’t get three chances. They get whacked the FIRST time.
Not totalitarian. Just getting d..ned angry.
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