Except one of the rights/responsibilities of the Federal government is protecting from outside invasion. Heroin is being used just like a chemical weapon against this country. These drugs are mostly produced by third world countries that our sworn enemies of us, illegally smuggled into this country, and our currency used to buy these drugs are sent back to these enemies. There is very little between this and dropping bombs on us.
So we build a fortress-type wall on the southern border, then regulate drugs produced in America. Stupid people continue their stupid practice of using drugs, while those who make them are licensed, regulated, and inspected regularly, while making a profit on aforementioned stupid people.
It’s like Women’s Studies. Just because it’s there, and people pay for it, doesn’t mean it’s good for them.
Saying the Feds should protect the borders and Ports of Entry? Sounds like a good idea. I’ll bet we could keep out more than heroin if we tried.
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That’s a very good point.
I don’t philosophically like it, but it’s a good point.
“These drugs are mostly produced by third world countries that our sworn enemies of us, illegally smuggled into this country, and our currency used to buy these drugs are sent back to these enemies.”
You do realize that before we outlawed heroin, morphine, etc, that domestic companies were reaping the lion’s share of the profits on this enterprise, and the third worlders were just cheap labor, right?