Posted on 01/22/2010 9:11:14 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
We have been fighting the war on drugs for decades are have never made much progress at suppressing demand in the US, the biggest market. Demand is as strong or stronger than ever.
We have succeeded, however in destabilizing allies in Latin America. I wonder if Bolivia would have gone to Chavez had that government not been so cooperative. The Taliban appear to be funding their insurgency out of poppy sales.
I think we have to take a serious look at bringing some drugs out of the black market and into a legal, regulated market. Because of "medical marijuana" (what a crock), weed is as good as legalized here already.
“Vicente” Only one N.
Hey, Fox! You’re plane’s sitting rotting on the tarmac at our airport. You gonna pay your repair bill or what?
The addiction of Americans to drugs and alcohol costs taxpayers dearly.Rehab beds are full in every state. Rehab facilities are a boomning business. The lives ruined by drugs are many. It touches almost every family. Users keep the drug business thriving across the nation.
Where in this report did Vincente accept his half?
He didn't. THATS whats hard to take.
Yeah, it can’t have anything to do with the rule of law pretty much being a dead letter south of the border.
2)Go after illegal hard drug dealing within the US like no tomorrow. The question is of course to define what drugs are the virulent ones. Marijuana? Cocaine? Methamphetamine? Viagra? Statins? anti-inflammatories? aspirin? tobacco?
The aged in America are drug consumers little different than the urban gang crowd and that culture becomes obvious to youth as well. But once the category of virulent drugs and drug use is ideologically defined, severe enforcement goes along way toward "education."
3)Let free enterprise boom, so the pathways to self improvement are accessible. And work like the devil to insure that they are.
4)Legalization of certain drugs is not the simple answer, as the Netherlands has discovered in spades. Most addictive drugs are just cultures of irresponsibility, as even the low intensity drug, alcohol addiction, clearly demonstrates. And if the US has degenerated in any sense in the last forty years it is the irresponsibility of its citizens (nurtured by Democrats incidentally). Maybe, like alcohol, legalization can be administered by age and venue. The war on drugs, for the sake of a civilized community, the US, must continue, but with an overriding perspective. And that perspective incidentally, could be best aided by the medical and parental communities, not a bunch of leftist lawyers.
Without buyers, there would be no sellers, no competition, no illegal drug industry. If you wanted to manufacture or grow some for your own use, there would be no laws about illegal sales.
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And who started supplying us and allowing drugs to traffic through their country?
Mexico’s addiction to criminal behavior is to blame.....starting with Fox.
“...this nation [U.S.A.] has the largest consumer market of drugs in the world...”
In this, Fox is telling the truth.
We should start by cleaning up in the U.S. - hanging drug suppliers AND users. And don’t bother coming to their defense, saying “Oh, they can’t help themselves, it is a disease, blah, blah, blah...”
Somethings are so dangerous to society, like gangrene is to a human body, that it must be cut out and destroyed.
I have family members who are drug addicts. I have heard all the pathetic excuses. Truth is, they chose the lifestyle and a completely irresponsible one it is, too. It isn’t just themselves that are harmed, it is the whole family. Everyone else had to clean up after them and assume responsibilies for their children, as they are incompetent and completely self-centered. Today, you the taxpayer support them on SSI. What a waste of human potential and tax revenue.
Of course it is our fault, Everything is our fault that is why we need a WALL between the countries like the US is building to protect borders in the mid east ..
—agreed—if any war has been a failure, the “war on drugs” is—and I am not a user, either—
Legalize them, and then regulate them. /sarc
Vincente Fox blames American use of drugs....
Who exactly is using drugs in America?
My guess is a very high percentage of them are used by Mexicans and other Hispanics living in America. By American blacks. White American kids and young adults may smoke most of the Mexican pot
But I have a sneaking suspicion that what is called “American use of drugs” is more accurately Black and Hispanic use of drugs. What say you Aunt B?
I’d love to see some good numbers on this
Evertime drugs are mentioned on Free Republic, people like you pop up to promote legalizing its use. That, and you always equate it with adult beverages.
There was a reason Great Britain supported and financed the importaion of opium into the Chinese Empire: do you know why they did so?
Re Vicente Fox’s assertion that Mexico’s violence is due to US’ addiction to drugs ——
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Gee, and here I thought it was all Bush’s fault!
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