Posted on 01/10/2023 8:13:21 PM PST by FarCenter
The fact that the chicoms don't speak Japanese is plenty.
They think the Russians did it for them.
Fixed.
China is responsible. It is like the opium wars in reverse.
Oh, that's right, I don't use drugs.
Darwin awards for all the low-hanging fruit!
Loved that movie!
There have been increases in new drugs, decreases in some older drugs over time. Some drugs make a come back after many years... What folks use changes over time. More than anything else, it all depends on how the data is collected and presented, i.e. if the intent is to make a big deal/issue out of it.
Issues like drugs are akin to gun laws, believing you can somehow legislate your way out of a crime problem and blaming a substance (inanimate stuff). If we only put enough cops on every street corner the problem will surely go away - so goes the logic of folks that want to ban anything which goes boom and call it an assault weapon and want it banned. With ever more money and policies to control this problem, no one is asking what this does to civil rights, if this money were better spent elsewhere...
There are societal issues which drive the (((destructive))) use of these drugs: broken homes and missing fathers, gangs, lack of self respect, no morals, no perceived future or goals, declining economic conditions... Folks seem to forget that the drug which kills more than any other, is booze: https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html
Yet no legislator would talk about prohibition today because that wouldn’t fly. And rightfully so, because it’s a stupid and ill advised idea. People will use it anyway, you’ll end up criminalizing folks. There is a market (demand and supply) and for every guy you bust making, transporting or selling it, someone else will jump up to fill their shoes. Just like prohibition didn’t work, so will this idiotic “war on drugs” NEVER, EVER, succeed for all the same reasons. The only difference is booze is socially accepted, and pot (far less dangerous than booze) is not. Even the Pope has his wine, and in European culture booze is our drug of choice.
Some drugs are an escape (heroin), for others an adventure (LSD), it’s an enhancement to have an even better experience (Cocaine, Extacy), for some it’s to relax or chill out (pot), and yet others want to forget or drop their inhibitions a little (booze).
But a few things are for sure, almost everyone takes them, prescription or non-prescription (1/4 of US adults take mental drugs may that be for anxiety, depression, sleep... mood/mental state altering drugs). At least at some point in peoples lives, almost everyone takes them. They have been around forever. They are used everywhere. There is something in the human condition that wants, maybe even needs, this.
Waging a war on drugs makes about as much sense as waging a war on winter, or the wind. Go for it Don Quixote. But sadly, and without any say, my money is WASTED in these political grandstanding endeavors. I wish, that just like with all the libtard ideas, only those that advocate for this lunacy were asked to pay for it.
Ask yourself this:
*How far are you willing to go to fix this problem?
*And do you really think you’ll actually really fix it with laws, police, a border?
BTW, the good pot in Mexico comes from the US, it’s the other way around since we have medical grade stuff here: CA, CO, etc)...
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