You are seeing what happens when the the effect of law is worse than the drugs.
More people are being killed by the drug gangs than by the drugs themselves. The illegality of drugs has given criminal gangs various ways to make money, and with that, a reason to strictly enforce their financial stake in illegal drug operations.
Making small amounts of drugs un-illegal (pardon the term, but it fits) stops some low-level corruption by local authorities and changes the stakes for the big dealers. In addition, it throws more weight on personal management and family in dealing with these problems.
Think about the problems Mexico is enduring before casting stones.
For what it’s worth, I believe that California will legalize pot before the end of 2010.
You just say that because you've never seen what happens when there are no drug laws.
When the hippies discovered LSD, they used it like candy, legally. Look at where those hippie liberals took the country.
you very well may be right....why not decriminalize small amounts of these drugs for personal use, and tax their sale.
It won’t be too much longer before drugs are legalized AND TAXED here. With bankruptcy of the federal and state governments ahead, this is a likely scenario.
California has to release 40,000 prisoners in the near future. Think of the money to be made by the gov’t and saved by states and municipalities on law enforcement and prison management. The police would actually be able to go after violent criminals. There isn’t enough money in the world to win the drug war.
But if the drugs could be manufactured legally in licensed facilities, addicts could get them at a reasonable price so no more robbery and break ins to finance drug habbits. The purity would no longer be a problem and suddenly criminal enterprise would be out of the drug business.
Tax money generated could pay for treatment for those who would like to get off drugs.
You are right. Anyone who doesn’t understand this needs to read about Al Capone and other gangs in the prohibition era.
Not that legalizing drugs and paying for treatment plans work, especially in a society that doesn’t really encourage people to live the ‘right way’, but there is no way to keep up with how far over the top the gangs have gotten.
Any entrepreneur could make a FORTUNE with this law being enacted. I am seriously tempted to go to Mexico, set up a garden to grow stuff, and then sell it.
The WOD is unconstitutional and ineffective.
So called conservatives who complain and cry about the lack of liberty and freedom and then support restrictions on freedom and liberty (The WOD) are clueless hypocrites.
You cant have it both ways.
“Think about the problems Mexico is enduring before casting stones.”
Better think about the problems MEXICO is causing us!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320904/posts
“For what it’s worth, I believe that California will legalize pot before the end of 2010.”
If they do the feds should move in and arrest every legislator that voted for it and Arnie for signing it!