Posted on 08/11/2014 6:13:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Prohibition doesn’t work.
Using the same logic. Let’s prohibit murder.”
We already have. Wear a badge and you can kill anyone you’d like, just claim they “were noncompliant and made a move”.
just legalize everything. if crack, meth, heroin, LSD, and all the rest are legalized, all the profit will go away and the bad guys will get out of the business and work in legitimate industries. then we can all have unicorns for pets and drink rainbows with our lunch.
Exactly. There are a lot more illegal drugs than just marijuana. I don’t see these guys just fading away peacefully.
“America’s first foray into rolling back prohibition 2.0 is barely underway, and already marijuana prices have dropped low enough to convince some cartel farmers in Mexico to abandon the crop.”
Fox did a report on it a while back that showed the legal dope was so expensive due to the taxes that dopers were getting Rx cards so they could grow their own, and they sell the surplus on the illegal market.
The Mexican cartels are also buying up the dope stores and selling their dope in the now legal market.
Since the banks won’t do business with the dope stores, it is all a cash only market in the legal stores. The liberals didn’t think this one through very well.
The liberal ‘pipe’ dream of huge tax windfalls from legal dope is going up in smoke. There is no pot of gold from a legal product that is as easy to grow as a tomato plant.
They will take over US production. Violence will move from Mehico to the US proper.
Roughly 53% of the people in Federal Prison are there because of drugs.
America has a bigger percentage of our population in prison than any other country. .94% of our population is in prison, 2.9% is on probation, parole, jail, or in prison.
Yet drug use remains high and availability is easy. The police continue to ramp up their militarization and freedoms suffer.
Punishment and legalization are not the answer but neither is the war on drugs. Why do some people use drugs and others not?
One thing you can’t fight with bullets is the free market.
The only question IMO is how many US politicians and law enforcement do they currently have on payroll.
LOL, a real bunch a wizards there.
“Roughly 53% of the people in Federal Prison are there because of drugs.”
None of which are there for pot for personal use as the only crime on their rap sheet.
There you go injecting facts again.
Well that may be a separate problem from the WOD, which is relying upon professional law enforcement, something the Founders did not prefer. The citizen was to be law enforcement. That's when citizens pay attention to the letter of the law. Lawyers wrecked the whole thing by making law so complex it created demand for professionalized law enforcement. Police power made them and by extension government an interest unto themselves as alienated from the rest of the citizens paying the bill. That is when freedoms suffer.
Punishment and legalization are not the answer but neither is the war on drugs.
When punishment was meted by the community, my guess is that it was more effective, as the social pressures are totally different. Once it is alienated from the people, they don't give a crap anymore and no one is accountable for the rehabilitation of the user.
Why do some people use drugs and others not?
Lack of faith and aspiration, but then one could say that is the same reason I take nutritional supplements or legal medicines. As I see it, the real problem with drug use is accountability for the damage done while incapacitated.
Does it matter? Personal use pot has to be grown, distributed and sold.
Someone has to do it.
Funny article. Anyone who actually believes this nonsense also votes for DemocRATS.
“Does it matter? Personal use pot has to be grown, distributed and sold.”
Making it legal doesn’t change that at all. All it could possibly do is expand the number of people using it.
Then 54% of the prison population can be there for tax evasion from selling untaxed dope.
Well of course. Been saying for years we should legalize marijuana for this reason.
We had MANY an interesting conversation in my Prosecutor’s office about the (as almost all of us thought) ridiculous “War on Drugs”. Wanna de-fund terrorists? Legalize and regulate. I was actually surprised how many thought that was the way to go.
Be assured, the War on Drugs is a grand joke. We MAYBE get 1%. Maybe. And it does nothing to stop using.
Sometimes the simple solution to a vexing problem is right there in front of us !!!!!
And 50% of inmates are black. So what?
“So they’ll up meth and heroin production.”
Stupid potheads will want a bigger thrill via Mexican cocaine, meth and heroin. So soon the numbnutz will clamor for those to be legalized too. Down the slippery slope we go.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.