It figures with your freep name(”say no to nannies) that you would take this position. Legalization would lead to taxation of the drugs and then again illegal end runs around the law with different violent players getting involved. There is something about the “easily addicted” that they must fulfill their addictions no matter what effects they have on themselves and society. And yes they are an added cost and burden to all those around them.
They are generally selfish and self absorbed and are bellicose to anyone who might somehow want to limit their “freedom”. These people have blood on their hands and because of the health profession I work in with the constant exposure to the “drug and alcohol crowd”, I’ve become sick and tired of seeing the families they have ruined, their own health they have ruined, and seeing the waste they have made of their lives!
Our founding fathers recognized that our “civic freedoms and God given rights” are dependent upon a populace who were individually and INTERNALLY governed to a large degree by a faith in God and adherence to Judeo Christian principles.
Right. And if drugs were legal, criminals wouldn't be making tens of billions of dollars from American drug users - just as they don't from American users of the mind-altering drug alcohol.
Drug using Americans have the blood of many thousands of murdered Mexicans and others on their hands
Takes two to motivate and provide resources to murderous drug criminals: users, and a War on Drugs. Supporters of the latter have no less blood on their hands than the users do.
Legalization would lead to taxation of the drugs and then again illegal end runs around the law
That has happened very little if at all with the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol; the evidence is against you.
These people have blood on their hands
As do supporters of the War on Drugs, which like Prohibition before it is a necessary component in motivating and providing resources to murderous drug criminals.
and because of the health profession I work in with the constant exposure to the “drug and alcohol crowd”, I’ve become sick and tired of seeing the families they have ruined, their own health they have ruined, and seeing the waste they have made of their lives!
I'm glad to see you acknowledge that alcohol is right there in the mix (it's more than some pro-drug-war FReepers do). Should we ban the addictive mind-altering drug alcohol?
Our founding fathers recognized that our “civic freedoms and God given rights” are dependent upon a populace who were individually and INTERNALLY governed to a large degree by a faith in God and adherence to Judeo Christian principles.
Our founding fathers also never claimed that laws could make a populace moral.