Posted on 09/22/2007 8:04:50 PM PDT by amchugh
Today, despite America’s three-decades-long national War on Drugs, we are still in the midst of what many have called a “drug epidemic.” If we abandon our policy of “containment”—the long-term effort to reduce the production and consumption of drugs—how far would this epidemic spread through the general population? If most people, or even a substantial minority, became drug addicts whose whole existence revolved around getting their next fix, the prospects for our society would look bleak indeed.
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Well said...and I agree.
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Most of the drug problem can easily be solved simply by securing the borders, and ending taxpayer funded "treatment" for drug addicts. Those who want to wreck their bodies should pay for their own treatment.
Most of the drug problem can easily be solved simply by securing the borders, and ending taxpayer funded "treatment" for drug addicts. Those who want to wreck their bodies should pay for their own treatment.Most of the social ills from the drug epidemic(massive criminal gangs, gangs murdered each other to control "corners" etc...) come from drugs being illegal. If Americans truly believed in the free market and individual responsibility(i.e. letting people who want to become addicts kill themselves) drugs wouldn't be a problem.
In other words, we are stuck, and there’s no way out.
Does anyone wish to contest that?
The problem is of course, that the dhims wouldn’t let people kill themselves with drugs, no matter how much they begged to be allowed to do it.
Every proposal I hear about legalizing drugs includes the phrase “tax the hell out of them” to pay for “education, treatment, etc.”.
Legalize drugs and let me shoot people who try to rob me and we can call it even.
The problem is of course, that the dhims wouldn’t let people kill themselves with drugs, no matter how much they begged to be allowed to do it.ding ding ding. Taxing drugs ruins the whole point of legalization, using the free market to get rid of the black market.
Every proposal I hear about legalizing drugs includes the phrase “tax the hell out of them” to pay for “education, treatment, etc.”.
Legalize drugs and let me shoot people who try to rob me and we can call it even.
Sounds good to me.
Enforcement of drug laws is largely nonexistent in San Francisco and has been for some time. How consistent are their results with your predictions?
Enforcement of drug laws is largely nonexistent in San Francisco and has been for some time. How consistent are their results with your predictions?Supply is more important than demand. I have a feeling someone who actually goes into largescale production(which would drive down costs and drive the gangs out of business) would get busted pretty fast, even in SF. AFAIK The non-enforcement is usually for small time dealers and junkies.
Drugs or other self-destructive behavior may pose risks to a society's freedom, but so does unrestrained power at the hands of the state. If we accept that "no man is an island" and that society has to "protect us from ourselves", then we run the risk of opening the door to totalitarianism. The gun pointed at drug abuse today could someday be pointed at unhealthy diets, excess television, or too many hours at the office.
That's why it is important to remember that society has many means of addressing harmful behavior beyond legal prohibition.
A certain percentage of the population will choose to abuse drugs to varying degrees. The vast majority will not.
Very good. When can we start executing liquor store clerks?
-ccm
Way too predictable.
Sure. I’m all for letting you shoot a drunk if he tries to rob you.
I can agree with you on that...
Almost even... let me cut their throats if they give or sell them to my kids... only then would I call it even...
ketsu: Supply is more important than demand.
The druggies, like the sex perverts, can only perpetuate an ever increasing demand for their filth by molesting the minds and bodies of the young ones.
Does anyone wish to contest that?
Yeah. I do. There is no “war on drugs.” The police and other agencies fight drugs the same way fire departments fight fire. And I don’t hear them saying there’s a “war on fire.” There is no end to it, but you keep going just the same.
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