Just think, if Marijuana were legalized most of this stuff would stop. Then again, just think of all the SWAT teams with nothing to do. No dress up like soldiers, then go try to act like the are. And just for the record. I don’t use Marijuana and never have. The price is too high on civil liberties and the lives of innocent citizens to let this lethal nonsense continue.
>Then again, just think of all the SWAT teams with nothing to do.
Oh, come on... there’s plenty of no-longer-enlisted marines they can murder.
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>The price is too high on civil liberties and the lives of innocent citizens to let this lethal nonsense continue.
Sadly, that is precisely why the Powers That Be will *NEVER* allow the cessation of the War on Drugs: it would cost them too much power.
They’re all about Power, Mr. Rearden, and they mean to have it...
The war on drugs has been a terrible failure, just as the war on alcohol was during prohibition. If drugs were legalized the people who use illegally now would be within the law and half of our prison population could go home.
The logic is that drugs ruin the lives of people so we must not allow the people to have them. I too believe that drugs ruin lives, just like alcohol does but neither of those is nearly as good at ruining a life as a prison sentence.
Getting rid of half of our prisons and all of our SWAT teams would be worth allowing those who would want to ruin their lives to go ahead and do it.
Think of what getting rid of the drug cartels would do for Mexico, we could do it by the stroke of a pen in a matter of months they would all be gone.
When people finally get enough of alcohol they go into rehab and try to get off of it, about 1/3rd of those who try succeed. While I have never tried drugs, when I was a young man I was a submarine sailor so to keep my pro pay I had to abstain but, I sure tried alcohol in a big way.
People will do what they want to do and break the law if necessary. I started smoking when I was 11 and drinking when I was 16. Yes I had to hide from the law and yes I had a fake ID but if it had been legal perhaps I would have had a drink at home where my parents could make sure I didn’t over-do it.
The war on drugs is just wrong. Drugs are wrong but the war on them is much worse.