I was a ‘drug warrior’ because I really believed that the Law would see the difference between a middle-aged woman with a broken spine and a teenaged tweeker in an alley.
I was wrong.
The answer to the WOD is to put everyone who needs/wants narcotics in the same boat. The Law doesn’t care.
And they crack down on the doctors so that THEY do not care.
My mistake was believing that there was such a thing as ‘common sense’ left in the world. My last pain doctor bragged about how he tortured 80 year old women with crippling arthritis and treated them like criminals and made them take a urine test every four weeks.
When you put a blanket bureaucracy in place you get... a bureaucracy. That paper room doesn’t care about you. It has no common sense. It only exists to check a block.
Exactly. The War on (Some) Drugs is the epitome of the “one size fits all” mentality that law enforcement has increasingly come to adopt. People smoking medmari for glaucoma are the same as crackheads breaking into apartments to feed their habit. There’s no common sense, just the overwhelming need to increasingly “nail” more “users” and “pushers” to justify the ever-increasing budget requests for more equipment to “fight the war on drugs.”
And then you have all the rest that comes with it too. Warrantless no-knock midnight raids to “keep people from flushing it down the toilet” (really, to intimidate the citizenry). Flash bang grenades burning off toddlers’ faces. Random illegal searches of automobiles. Property forfeiture of anyone with cash, regardless of whether they’re even CHARGED, much less convicted of a crime.
Thanks a lot, all you people who are still “drug warriors” out there. I’d rather have the Constitution, even if it means people get to take drugs without some nanny stater standing over them with the truncheon of the police.
Ultimate irony? Alcohol causes far more damage to society and to individual lives than does illegal drugs. But the same drug warriors don’t want to outlaw alcohol again, since many FReepers like their beer and wine. They ban what they don’t use, but don’t you dare touch what they personally like.
How about we just stop banning any of it, unless individual states choose to do so, and we start reining the power of the state back in?