Deadlier Than Irene (Oliver North)

Creators Syndicate ^ | September 2, 2011 | Oliver North

[Morpheus2009]

I am not as far from you in how I feel as it might seem. My primary feeling is that it’s a much more a family responsibility for discouraging drug use than it is of the state. Again, it’s interesting to note how there was a vast family decline among the African-American population in America, not just from lynch mobs, but ever increasingly from drugs, illicit sex, and repeat with the following generation. Again, with the family structure broke for so many of them, there’s going to be a really hard time getting the state, prisons, police and all, to compensate for the kinds of interaction and experience you could have in a two-parent home, not to say it guarantees much, but I do feel that the responsibility lies more on family from siblings to parents than state enforcement.

Also the point can be made that Prohibition made government more Draconian, in their measures involved to try and enforce the law. That IMO, is something that the Founders realized was problematic in some form or another back when.

Not only that, but alcohol is a pretty easy substance to make some of your own, as opposed to say, other substances.

I do think marijuana ought not to be banned, but anyone who does something stupid while high on it, should be accountable for such inconveniences which they cause to themselves or others.

As for illicit substances, I doubt you or I could list all of them, but frankly, I feel that for the most part, if someone uses something, it’s their accountability for what effects the substance has on them, especially if they had prior warning about it.