Pot should be legalized, and cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, should at the very least be de-criminalized.
Most people feel Pot ought to be legal but draw the line there. But in a free society, adults should be free to make thier own choices with respect to drug use. They must have individual choice and responsibility. Like tobacco and alcohol, any legalized drugs cannot be made available to minors.
THe cost to our society and economy from our insane and rabid anti-drug laws and interdiction and imprisonment is huge. We have entire police divisions in every major city devoted to catching drug users and drug sellers. Since drug dealing is a criminal activity, it atttracts a subset of society which must use violence to protect their market share and gain share from others. Legalize drugs, and the drug dealers will be off the streets, shootouts and drug-gang wars will decline or disappear. An enormous relief will be given to the justice system, reducing the burden of processing so many drug offenders. Police narcotics departments will shrink or disappear, the justice system elements devoted to drug crime will shrink, and the prison population will shrink. This will provide very large tax relief at local and state levels. Toss out the DEA and you save a few billion also. Politicians will no longer be able to play the law and order card, "clean up our streets, just say no..etc"
And this is why it may prove so difficult to legalize drugs: there a huge entrenched interest in the nation's "drug problem".THere are likely are several hundred thousand people employed directly or indirectly by the "War on drugs". There are even big corporations to whom state functions are contracted that have an interested in a growing penal system, like Corrections Corporation of America, and several outfits that provide medical services to jails and prisons. Can you imagine big corporations with a lobby to create more crime laws on the books?
As a society, we are overtaxed, over-regulated, over-self righteous, and overwrought over getting a non-alcoholic buzz on.
Its time to put choice in the hands of adults, and stop this nanny state, which includes not just drug laws, but the remains of the welfare state.
PS anyone know where I can get some good blow?
Most people feel Pot ought to be legal but draw the line there. But in a free society, adults should be free to make thier own choices with respect to drug use. They must have individual choice and responsibility. Like tobacco and alcohol, any legalized drugs cannot be made available to minors.
THe cost to our society and economy from our insane and rabid anti-drug laws and interdiction and imprisonment is huge. We have entire police divisions in every major city devoted to catching drug users and drug sellers. Since drug dealing is a criminal activity, it atttracts a subset of society which must use violence to protect their market share and gain share from others. Legalize drugs, and the drug dealers will be off the streets, shootouts and drug-gang wars will decline or disappear. An enormous relief will be given to the justice system, reducing the burden of processing so many drug offenders. Police narcotics departments will shrink or disappear, the justice system elements devoted to drug crime will shrink, and the prison population will shrink. This will provide very large tax relief at local and state levels. Toss out the DEA and you save a few billion also. Politicians will no longer be able to play the law and order card, "clean up our streets, just say no..etc"
And this is why it may prove so difficult to legalize drugs: there a huge entrenched interest in the nation's "drug problem".THere are likely are several hundred thousand people employed directly or indirectly by the "War on drugs". There are even big corporations to whom state functions are contracted that have an interested in a growing penal system, like Corrections Corporation of America, and several outfits that provide medical services to jails and prisons. Can you imagine big corporations with a lobby to create more crime laws on the books?
As a society, we are overtaxed, over-regulated, over-self righteous, and overwrought over getting a non-alcoholic buzz on.
Its time to put choice in the hands of adults, and stop this nanny state, which includes not just drug laws, but the remains of the welfare state.
PS anyone know where I can get some good blow?
