Yeah. They should sell crack at walmart. It would be really cheap then. And such a better society.
More than likely. The so-called "War on Drug" has not stopped the flow of drugs - although it has made a lot of "respectable" people a lot of money. The flow of laundry money through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is in the billions. It destroys lives and funds crimes. It also, by driving drug use underground, makes it more difficult to tackle the problem of drug abuse.
The knee jerk reaction of "I think drugs are bad so they should be illegal" is just that - a knee jerk unthinking reaction. And the imposition of thugish cops and confiscatory "forfeiture" laws with no recourse to recover illegally seized property is the stuff of horrors. My nephew had his truck seized when a person he knew in his apartment complex got busted for dealing - he never got his truck back, but still had to pay it off. In another case the city wanted a piece of land which the owners would not sell. So they staged a drug bust and parked an APC in their living room. No drugs were found.
The so-called war on drugs has not stopped either the use or sale of drugs. However, it does provide a great way for the "well connected" to use the authorities to shut their competition down. And the CIA is not called the "Cocaine Importation Agency" for no good reason. Illegal drugs, along with other criminality, fund a lot of their black operations. The drug wars and drug gang killings, like bootleggers - such as Alphonse, Scarface, Capone, create crime they do not stop it. Legalization in an instant does away with all the drug lords, all the killings, the need for totalitarian police, hundreds of millions in prisons, and on and on. It also puts the problem where it should be - in the hands of counselors and treatment centers, along with public education about what drugs do to a person.
So, tell us about the wonder of the war on drugs and how successful it has been. Drugs are now more available than they were during "The Summer of Love".
#28. To: Original_Intent, christine, farmfriend (#25)
I watched REEFER MADNESS again today, and it carries a powerful message. One guy was not even tried but was instead summarily sentenced as "hopelessly insane for life", doubtless due to the effects of "marihuana"!
AND, his lawyer, the prosecutor and the judge all agreed!
If not for the War On Drugz this could happen 2 ewe!
(it's a good thing you can't get any "marihuana", huh?)
I admit that as a young musician I was lured into trying it once. Fortunately, my friends restrained me because I immediately wanted to launch a multi-state killing spree!
(According to FEDGOV) it has a different effect on girls though. They have the uncontrollable urge to drop their drawers for the Mexicans and Africans who always team up (to maximize the chances of pregnancy and rectal hemorrhaging) before offering it to unsuspecting white wimmen.
Ask any heroin addict if they started doing drugs mainlining.
Most often, they will tell you they started with a joint, and it went from there.
Actually it was milk and dairy products. Ask any heroin addict if they started doing drugs mainlining. Most often, they will tell you they started with a glass of milk, and it went from there.
Apparently from the replies I'm seeing, there are quite a few paying Cartel Customers right here on these pages not wanting to see their mexican pipeline messed with.