) , may be a more effective alternative.Why do these ignorant buffoons always think that the only way to stop the WOD is to legalize?
Posted on 09/10/2001 11:14:58 AM PDT by WindMinstrel
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Bush Administration appears determined to continue the war on drugs that has been actively pursued by all U.S. governments since the Nixon Administration. I believe this is a serious mistake because that approach has failed badly. Legalizing marijuana, and even some hard drugs, may be a more effective alternative.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
If we had a REAL war on drugs, it would solve the problem.
Possibly low-yield nuclear weapons in areas like Sonoma county, or at the Big Drug Dealers HQ...
...Foggy Bottom.(sarcasm off)
And just another lame response from the drug warriors.
If we had a REAL war on drugs, it would solve the problem.
Yeah, a REAL WAR! That's the ticket. We can't keep drugs out of prison, so we must turn our society into something even more controlled than prison to win this WAR! TOTAL WAR! KILL! KILL! KILL!
Man, Dr. Strangelove has NOTHING on some of you drug warrior types.
Sorry, I thought the sarcasm just applied to the Foggy Bottom part so the feds wouldn't think he was advocating terrorism. He's got the drug warrior methodology down pat...
) , may be a more effective alternative.Why do these ignorant buffoons always think that the only way to stop the WOD is to legalize?
Psst Mr. Becker drugs such as heroin and crack have much different physical characteristics than gasoline and liquor.
Both gasoline and liquor are liquid and their transportation is very hard to conceal.
Crack and heroin are solid and can be easily concealed. There is nothing to stop a pusher buying his illlegal(non-taxed) crack and heroin and selling it to minors or other states where they may be illegal.
What Mr. Becker does is validate even more drug dysfunction in our society.
Yeah, and that's why, during Prohibition, so little liquor was smuggled in this country /sarcasm.
He is apparently willing to concede this, but I'm not. Whether legalization would increase drug use or not is a complex question, because the motivations of users are complex. People choose whether or not to take drugs for a variety of reasons, and price is rarely a factor so far as I know.
According to NewsWeek, drug use has substantially dropped in Spain since they ceased enforcement of drug prohibition. There's also good evidence there were fewer alcohol addicts after prohibition ended than under it, based on deaths from sirhosis of liver. I don't know whether drug use would rise or fall if drugs were legalized, and neither does Becker.
Yeah so. This was an "opinion" piece in Business Week. I would bet that George Soros(big pro-druggie) and Hillary friend also has written opinion pieces in Business Week.
Could it be that they have no real argument, just a bunch of emotional baggage to fall back on?
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