Time to Legalize Street Drugs
I am not a drug user in the street. I fall in use of marijuana for a period of three years, but that was 20 years ago. I used to snuff for a period of 12 years. Today, my use of drugs is limited to seasonal allergy medicine, the daily habit of caffeine and alcohol is not common. Yes, tobacco, caffeine and alcohol are drugs. Alcohol is so intoxicating as street drugs. Nicotine is more engaging than some street drugs. Caffeine is always stronger and stronger.
course of its history, the ban has cost us billions of dollars. Billions of dollars to the cost of bloated government bureaucracies, direct foreign aid, military operations in South America, border surveillance, monitoring internal prison construction and operation costs, medical expenses, for the creation of local military police, the costs of crimes against property, etc. These costs waves through many parts of our society.
ban is a violation of their privacy. I realize that the Constitution does not give us the right to privacy has expressed, but one implicit in our culture (abortion can not € ™ t use this argument. You're dealing with another life.). The government should not engage in personal conduct unless they put others at risk (eg, driving under the influence). The government has used the drug war to the confiscation of private property (the confiscation of assets). The government has used the war on drugs to control their personal finances (laws against money laundering) and the confiscation of more taxes. The government hates difficult to keep track of cash transactions and laws emanating disguised as drug laws to try to regulate transactions in cash. I should be able to enter and leave this country with a suitcase full of money without being investigated. Itâ € ™ s on my street drugs money.
bring health problems, but how widespread are they? Drug abuse destroys the lives of some users, but how big a social problem? Think the hysteria of newer medications, which feels more of methamphetamine. It seems that all teenagers in the country will be linked to methamphetamine in 2010. Of course, dependency on methamphetamine and meth labs are a danger to the public, but havenâ € ™ t we heard this story? The last plague of our society Oxycontin (hillbilly heroin) in the 90s. Before that it was crack cocaine in the 80s. I remember growing up in late 60 and 70 years for fear of my older brothers become addicted to LSD, heroin or angel dust. Remember, â € œReefer Madness? € Â? That was a movie made in the 30s about the dangers of marijuana. Have exaggerated the effects of marijuana that wasn € ™ too close to the power of what is now. Children will listen insane murderers "Are you ready for this? Jazz! Think that there was no racist connotation?
Together we need to discuss racism classism (No, I'm liberal, I hate inconsistencies.). If a rich person becomes addicted to oxycontin and used his wealth to buy illegally, used the euphemism, œprescription drug abuse.â € â €? Once caught, their hugs for all in a Tony $ 100,000 to one month rehab. If a poor person becomes addicted to it and reaches the illegal drug, they call it, â € € œhillbilly heroin addiction? and struck a support taxpayer $ 1,000 a month in jail. The victim left the hospital 30 days after the rich, writes books, appears on Oprah, and is admired for overcoming his demons in public. The Redneck is 5-10 years of hardship and criminal records. I have no envy of the class. Iâ € ™ m trying to be consistent. Although I'm a fan of Rush Limbaugh, I donâ € ™ t like seeing addicts like him and Brett Favre to be treated differently from addicts like Billy Bob and Cletus.
INCONSISTENCIES
How many of these travelers of the road morale is high or abuse rely on prescription medication? Three out of four of my closest € ™ wives are in a kind of prescription drugs for mental disorders. This information is anecdotal, but if you look at my neighborhood, it seems that the middle class is going through a company Soma Huxleysian while the poor are shooting in the street drugs.
BAN JUST doesn € ™ T WORK
We tried to attack from the side bid. We have seen directly in military operations to try to eradicate coca production in part of South America only to see emerge in others. We have tried to eradicate opium cultivation in Afghanistan only to see more companies encounter in Iran and Pakistan. We have tried to eradicate marijuana in California, only to see moving production in Oregon and Washington. We deleted the supply of chemicals necessary for the production of amphetamines in the United States to see to move production to Mexico. We deleted the supply routes along the border with Mexico, only to see an increase in the Caribbean or Canada. This is a huge game.
Shell International will be followed by legalization and regulation to protect consumers by standardizing the quantity and quality. Currently do this with other drugs. This means that fewer overdoses, less than the explosion in garage laboratories, and a decrease in medical costs. The same happened when the ban was repealed and poisonous bathtub gin, alcohol, radiator, and the explosion was whiskey stills. The trick is not to over-regulation (to make production expensive) and force the industry underground. Taxation is the next step and bring in revenue. Once again we must resist the temptation to create too much tax and the black market. Taxes should be used as a way to discourage use and increase revenue. Income can be used for treatment facilities for abuse. We should ban the advertising, and aggressively prosecuting drugged drivers, any supply of medicines for children, and who commits a crime under the influence.
There will be lots of other benefits of legalization. This includes direct benefits, such as property crimes committed by minors drug and more research on medical benefits of some of these drugs on the street. You could also see new types of industry created.
prohibition of alcohol did not work and gave us the organized crime and the Kennedy dynasty. Drug prohibition has not worked and gave us the Crips, Bloods and MS-13. Why donâ € ™ t we learn? We must stop fighting this problem and learn to manage it.
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