Posted on 01/19/2020 3:44:01 PM PST by conservative98
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is calling for the U.S. to legalize currently illicit drugs.
“If we take that step to legalize and regulate, then we're no longer treating people who are struggling with substance addiction and abuse as criminals and instead getting them the help that they need,” the 2020 presidential candidate said at a campaign stop in Merrimack, New Hampshire on Friday.
She was responding to a voter who asked whether her plan to end the war on drugs centered on more harm reduction and treatment or if it involved moving to “legalize and regulate narcotics so that you're no longer seeing tainted drugs on the street...and involvement in the black market.”
The congresswoman replied that her answer was “all of the above.”
“The costs and the consequence to this failed war on drugs is so vast and far reaching, socially and fiscally, that if we take these necessary steps, we'll be able to solve a lot of other problems that we're dealing with in this country,” she said.
Gabbard, who has sponsored several marijuana legalization bills during her time in Congress, had previously said in an interview last year that she supported “decriminalizing an individual’s choice to use whatever substances that are there while still criminalizing those who are traffickers and dealers of these drugs.”
Gabbard’s latest comments, which were first noted and recorded by journalist Michael Tracey, go beyond that by indicating she backs a legally regulated method of producing and distributing drugs.
The stance also puts her a step further than former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a rival Democratic presidential candidate, who has endorsed simply decriminalizing possession of all drugs.
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The great majority of mental illness is caused by drugs. About 80%.
They already execute each other - with no presumption of innocence or trial by jury - yet as soon as one falls another springs up to take his place.
I call BS. Link?
If America would start publicly executing drug dealers, a lot of the country’s problems would be addressed.
Addicts take poison sold to them by dealers. We need to kill all the dealers.
If that includes prescription drugs the costs would come down. We trip to Taiwan on occasion and 99% of scrip drugs can be bought anywhere. Not narcotics though.
Addicts take poison sold to them by dealers.
Ditto for alcohol addicts. All know what they're buying.
We need to kill all the dealers.
They already execute each other - with no presumption of innocence or trial by jury - yet as soon as one falls another springs up to take his place.
Do you believe that legalizing it will eliminate the black market?
Mexicans selling us poison made in Red China.
Hey Forbes. Nobody cares what this woman says. Her campaign is dead in the water. People higher in the polls have gotten out.
Find someone of interest to write about.
If not excessively taxed (and that is a big if), the black market in legal drugs would be no larger than the black market in the legal drug alcohol.
Any response to the other points in my post?
False. "the nature of the crisis has morphed from a prescription problem into a heroin crisis and now a full-blown fentanyl epidemic." - https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3790138/posts
Mexicans selling us poison made in Red China.
Your point being?
Kill the drug dealers, stop the problem.
I've already posted to you twice on this thread why that's wrong.
Why is that wrong, all the evidence supports it. Look at Asia.
Tucker is not a conservative. He is supposedly libertarian but my take is that his compelling motivation is to be the smartest person in the room. His ego trumps his objectivity.
Sometimes he exposes the lies and spin of the left but other times he twists the truth or ignores the evidence so he can condemn POTUS and look objective.
In view of his record on attacking President Trump by twisting the facts I have ceased to watch or follow anything he does.
False - as I posted to you twice, the evidence is that dealers already execute each other - with no presumption of innocence or trial by jury - yet as soon as one falls another springs up to take his place.
Look at Asia.
Asia differs from the USA in too many ways to say that adopting on particular Asian policy will get Asia's results. And while dealer execution may have worked in Singapore, they still have drug problems in e.g. China and Iran.
For her next attention grabbing stunt, Tulsi will do a strip tease.
What you see when you enter Taiwan:
I second Tulsi’s motion.
Savings in less cops, less lawyers, less judges, less prisons, less prison population to feed, less court buildings, add all the savings...it boggles the mind.
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