Let's really think about it. What is inherently wrong with the actual act of using drugs? Nothing. There's nothing wrong in making, transporting, or selling drugs either. What's wrong is the things that people might do under the influence of drugs, and that's what they should be punished for.
Would the use of drugs increase if they were legalized? No, because there's enough education out there right now that everyone knows how dangerous they all are. Does anyone actually think that the people who don't use drugs now are going to start just because they're legalized? They're not, because the reason they don't use them now has nothing to do with the law, and everything to do with thier own set of values. The people with values low enough that they might want to use drugs don't care if they're legal or not.
I'm not saying all drugs should be completely legal. I think there should be an age minimum like there is with alcohol, and once you reach that, you do what you want. Sell it only in places like bars and liquor stores where kids aren't allowed, license the **** out of the sellers, tax the **** out of the buyers, and make the act of giving/buying drugs to/for minors a crime like alchohol.
Now we can eliminate all these damn money-pit %26quot;task forces%26quot; and %26quot;drug czars%26quot; whose only purpose is to shore up a political agenda for the party in power and grab votes from one of the largest voting groups, that being the old folks who still believe that if something's %26quot;morally wrong%26quot; there should be a law against it. We can also turn loose everyone in prison whose only crime was to come somehow in contact with drugs, buying, selling, using, etc., and commited no other crime. Imagine how much money our government could spend in more useful places if it didn't have to shell out 75k a year to house and feed every guy who got caught smoking dope a few times too often. Imagine how many gang-bangers would have to get real jobs. How many fewer gangs, period. Imagine how many fewer people would get killed, and how many fewer undercover agents put in danger in %26quot;drug deals gone bad%26quot;. Hell, what could the government do if the entire budget of the DEA was freed up for other things?
As of right now I dont use drugs, I have been clean for years and i even quit smoking cigarretes. I think its pretty god dam rediculous i cant even do something like smoke a joint after work or pop a vicodin while im watching a movie without the risk of paying thousands in fines, court fees, possible jail time. I mean seriously are people just too damned stupid to *rule themselves*?.... or hopefully thats just what our government believes.
I can give a hundred examples of poisonous things in our food/enviornment, here is one...
Aspartame- This is proven in large amounts to be more toxic than taking ecstasy (MDMA) on a normal basis. Aspartame is NEURO-TOXIC which means you can develop cancer, become blind, deaf or retarded just from drinking too much diet soda. its in almost all chewing gum, diet drinks, and other common food products. (ofcourse keep in mind everyone will react differently).
Yet for some odd reason our current chimp-in-chief/congress is doing NOTHING to outlaw this Poison which kills and harms so many.
How much more are Americans going to take of this? Why is nothing changing??? And please i really dont think calling our stupid *** corrupt local representatives is going to do much. Government/politicians dont even have to respect us, let alone give into our logical demands. Is it seriously going to take a violent uprising for things to change? Our nation is beyond bankrupt. Were in such debt because of enlarged government/gov programs that things really are looking gloomy. Nuclear war is on the horizon. is that what its going to take for things to change, Washington DC getting blown up?
Im just really looking for some ideas on what to do so things can really CHANGE. Being our government doesnt even listen to us anymore, Im hoping you good people can give real ideas on what could be done to initate change for things like the War on Drugs, Poverty, Economy crisis, etc.
And please, Big Ideas People!!! None of this rallying or calling local reps being thats obviously ineffective.I am so sick of the War On Drugs, Any hope left?its never gonna go away because alot of people working to get rid of drugs are people that are benefiting from it also.
I am so sick of the War On Drugs, Any hope left?
drugs not good for health nor alcohol
I am so sick of the War On Drugs, Any hope left?
I hear ya.
Most people are too ignorant of the issues or lazy to do anything.
The ruling class in this country is well served by having an uneducated and apathetic populace.
I wouldn't call our President a %26quot;chimp%26quot; however, because using racial slurs deters from the point one is trying to make.
