Posted on 07/28/2014 12:07:40 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
EDITOR’S NOTE: This past Sunday, the editorial board of the New York Times endorsed the federal legalization of marijuana. In the February 12, 1996, issue of National Review, this publication’s editors endorsed the same concept in an introduction to a symposium on the question. The editorial and WFB’s contribution to the symposium follow:
National Review has attempted during its tenure as, so to speak, keeper of the conservative tablets to analyze public problems and to recommend intelligent thought. The magazine has acknowledged a variety of positions by right-minded thinkers and analysts who sometimes reach conflicting conclusions about public policy. As recently as on the question of troops to Bosnia, there was dissent within the family from our corporate conclusion that we’d be best off staying home.
For many years we have published analyses of the drug problem. An important and frequently cited essay by Professor Michael Gazzaniga (February 5, 1990) brought a scientist’s discipline into the picture, shedding light on matters vital to an understanding of the drug question. He wrote, for instance, about different rates of addiction, and about ambient pressures that bear on addiction. Elsewhere, Professor James Q. Wilson, now of UCLA, has written eloquently in defense of the drug war. Milton Friedman from the beginning said it would not work, and would do damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Those are state crimes, unless they take place on federal territory.
Do you want fedgov to overrule the states and get involved with such crimes?
Two in three murders are solved - the number of drug crimes that are even detected can't be more than two in three thousand.
I supposed we should just legalize everything because we can’t stop evil.
We should legalize acts that violate nobody's rights.
Do you know how irrational and paranoid you sound?
That the War on Terror was “which are intended to eventually negate the bill of rights and the very idea of private property”
Do you believe the USG knocked down the WTC?
But those who make money perpetuating it & those who fail to see the harm it's caused to the Fourth Amendment, states' rights & the tax money we have flushed down the toilet delight in keeping it going.
I believe that the US feral government is no longer restricted by the rule of law, and that the “wars” on drugs and terror were instrumental in getting us here.
More like America has lost. Becoming a nation of dopeheads, degenerates and government-dependent wastrels. Add open-borders and a depraved, faggotized culture.
America has devolved into an abject sewer. Its pathetic embrace of dope is but one indicator of its decline and impending death.
Heroin can be had for as little as $5.
There’s another thread today, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3186061/posts, by a Town Hall GOPe type.
If one follows his links we find his entry in the “foolish war on drugs” that uses a propaganda video froM something called the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3186061/posts
I think International Centre is all we need to know, but this is the type of tripe that so-called conservatives and libertarians are falling for when it’s filled with lies and obfuscations.
For example. Portugal Is presented as a great example of the benefit of legalizing drugs.
But their stats are all BS stats that mean nothing. Eg Portugal now has one of the lowest rates of dope smoking in Europe.
But they don’t say if it went up or down after egaliAtion, which is the question.
It’s full of BS lying like that. It pretends to be the scientific answer.
It’s like Global Warming — it’s Science. Can’t argue with Science.
A week’s supply?
Interesting if one is a simpleton.
The war for national sovereignty and borders is lost. The war against murder, rape and communism are lost.
All is lost.
Another reason I gave up on National Review
they are NOT in any way conservative
Never let a good crisis go to waste. The Patriot Act had been kicking around the backrooms of Congress for a while but never got out of committee because they figured the American people would riot at the massive destruction of freedom in it. Then 9-11 happened. And America cheered the passing of the Patriot Act.
The simple fact is our freedoms have been systematically and deliberately eroded. And the wars on drugs and terror are the frequent excuses. Which doesn’t mean anything was an inside job, just means that certain people see opportunities where normal people see tragedy and horror.
Under the current state of the "War on Drugs," a disproportionate number of convicts in our state and federal prisons are there due to drug-related offenses. And in these prisons, in which these people can be confined, surveiled, and searched 24/7, they still manage to get access to drugs.
Given that there are drugs in our prisons, I would say that the prospects of actually limiting access to drugs in the rest of the country are pretty slim. And, not being a user of illegal drugs, I'm not willing to live in a country that in any way resembles a prison simply for the purpose of trying to limit the prevalence of drugs.
“nobody would ever sell a product like cocaine at “pharmaceutical cost” even if it were legal”
Do not confuse these boys with rationality or reason.
They’d like to stay in their drugged out stupor, with blissful thoughts of utopia if drugs were just legalized.
Keep reading.
True - but no legal market offers anything like a 5000% markup.
“Heroin can be had for as little as $5.”
Sure it can. - thirty years ago.
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