nor do you realize the connection between drug traffic and organized crime.
And where do you think drug traffickers and organized crime come from? Prohibition creates a breeding ground for suppliers in the underground market that also increases drug-related violence and deaths. The irony is that despite the trillions of dollars that we have spent on fighting a war on drugs, they have only become more potent, cheaper, and more available. It is nothing but a giant fraud, considering that the US government is the world's largest drug dealer. It is also this failed drug policy that gave rise to Mexico's cartels.
The already legalized opiate trade is something you should study. There's still an epidemic of problems with addiction and health effects, up to and including death. Resale of legal opiates and substitutes creates echo waves of the same legal, health, violence and property issues
Exactly, because it's perfectly okay for pharmaceutical companies to create a nation reliant on pill-popping, and it's the doctors that prescribe millions of pills such as OxyContin or Oxycodone to people, which ends up in the hands of dealers who go on to sell it to others, but of course we wouldn't persecute any of the people who are busy pumping these drugs out would we? Maybe you should research into what industries benefit from the war on drugs, and then maybe you'll realize who has their fingers in our politician's pockets.
http://www.countthecosts.org/sites/default/files/Crime-briefing.pdfYou want a world where oxycontin and fentanyl are sold in vending machines, you'll get a world that's would resemble scenes from The Walking Dead.
Ugh, nice straw man. Decriminlization is not the same as legalization, but i understand that is anathema to most conservative idiots.
It wouldn't be any worse than this world of increased street use, organized crime, drug trafficking, violence, militarization of our police, corruption, criminalization of the victims, mass incarceration, and economic burden that the Farce on Drugs has created.
~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.
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kmd11
9 years ago
Ah, there's that liberal "tolerance" we all know and love. So, anyone that disagrees with you and your brilliant theory must be a "conservative idiot"? Do you think you are the only person in the world with a college degree? Let me tell you something, every person I ever knew that wanted to legalize drugs wanted to do it so they could freely smoke weed-- end of story.
Let's say drugs are legalized genius--then who gets them? Would you be okay with your surgeon smoking a big blunt before they operate on you? Would you be okay with your children's school bus driver shooting up a bit of black tar before they take your kiddies to school? Would you be okay with your electrician getting wasted before they work on your home? Who is going to pay for all of the new people on welfare because you know that will happen as more people turn into useless drug addicts.
And who controls the drugs? I hate to ruin your liberal narrative by pointing out the obvious flaw in your argument. But the government, which is undoubtedly who you will say should be the "enforcer" of drug laws, cannot even stop 18-year-olds from drinking. Are you really so naive that you think the government could stop people who shouldn't have drugs from getting them?
Not so simple now is it.
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proteus122
8 years ago
"Let me tell you something, every person I ever knew that wanted to legalize drugs wanted to do it so they could freely smoke weed-- end of story. "
Hi, nice to meet you. I guess you've met the first person that you know who agrees with everything degree7 said but DOESN'T use any drugs...well except alcohol and caffeine...you know, the legal ones. And yes, those are drugs.
The world certainly didn't end when prohibition ended and it won't if they ever take their head out of the a$$ and legalize drugs either.
Or perhaps you are suggesting that we make alcohol illegal again. I mean look at the damage it does, deaths related to over-consumption, driving while under the influence, other stupid stuff people do under the influence. And then there's the risk of addiction and the medical cost of all of it. And for god's sake, think of the families and the children of alcoholic parents! Partially quoting the Simpsons there...
OR, how about letting the adults decide what they want to do with their bodies? I don't smoke weed, snort coke or shoot heroin but I believe if that's what people want, then let them. And I've got more shocking news for you, people are getting those things ANYWAY! This in spite of the "war on drugs".
Stop the retarded, violent, money sucking "war on drugs". It's not working anyway. Maybe we should, instead, have a war on stupidity.
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