You see. Nearly all the bad things about drugs are cause by it being illegal.
The crime, the drug dealers, the cartels, the laced product, the poor product, the mystique, and the 'gateway drugs' will all go away if drug use is legal and treated responsibly...
Yeah... there will still be people who abuse the drugs. Just like there are people who abuse caffine. Or nicotine, or ethol alcohol.
Lets look at when good old alcohol prohibition.
What did that do for us? It created the mob, turned the streets of chicago into a death trap that is STILL dangerous today. Cause estimated in the million+ deaths. All to what? Stop a few people who were abusing it.
You can't make something illegal and it goes away.
Cygnus... Your friend.. She was doing Illegal pot. That was eventaully laced with Illegal speed or heroin...
If she was smoking government grown weed, or better yet, eating weed brownies (which is as harmless as drinking a pepsi) then she would have been fine.
There isn't actually anything -wrong- with getting high. People do it legally every day. Runners get a runner's high when the acid level in their muscles grows to a certain level after a lot of activity. They become euphoric.
There is nothing bad about that. And there are perfectly safe ways to get high that can't be explored because they have been made illegal. Such as weed brownies.
What did making drugs illegal do?
It created the cartel.
It flooded the market with poor quality drugs, and laced drugs designed to get people addicted to other more expensive drugs.
It provided a shady way to fund dirty regimes around the world.
It put countless people in jail for life. More than 50% of all people in prison are in prison due to drug busts, and that doesn't count crime related to drugs, like theft and prostitution.
It forced addicts to turn to theft and prostitution to get drugs rather than getting to use programs like in england. Where they have clinics that give you a fix for free or cheap to keep you from turning to crime.
What do you think all goes away if drugs are made legal?
The cartel, the poor quality drugs and the laced drugs, you stop sending american money over seas where it funds some of the worst regimes and terrorists on the planet. (including the ones that attacked us) No longer will casual drug users go to prison while the cartels fatten their wallets. And the people who really do need help might actually be able to get it.
But what else?
The police who were putting all these people in jail will now be freed up to do important jobs. Like catching murderers and theives. Like patroling the streets looking for bank robbers and purse snatchers (who themselves will largely go away because those crimes are typically done to get money for drugs)... So the police will be in strong force again.
But thats not all. With the cartel and dealers gone, all those bad neighborhoods will start to clean up. It won't get rid of gangs, but the police will suddenly be freed up to deal with the gangs.
The Mob will lose a huge chunk of their funding as well. They won't be able to hold control over their cities any longer.
And we can educate our kids the right way. Based on pros and cons, not just saying drugs are bad. Don't do drugs cause they are illegal.
And when they do go out and expirement with drugs, they can do so without being criminals. Without the worry of getting hooked on some other drug due to their first toke being laced with something.
One of my closest friends nearly died the first time he smoked up. The weed was laced with something that he ended up being allergic too... Do I blame weed? No, I blame him for doing it, and the dealers for lacing their pot, and the government for making it illegal and effectively creating the situation.
If you have cheap great quality, and "safe" government drugs, the bad guys won't be able to compete... and once they are gone, drugs can be enjoyed like a fine wine... Making it illegal doesn't prevent it from happening... It just makes it worse...
The crime, the drug dealers, the cartels, the laced product, the poor product, the mystique, and the 'gateway drugs' will all go away if drug use is legal and treated responsibly...
Yeah... there will still be people who abuse the drugs. Just like there are people who abuse caffine. Or nicotine, or ethol alcohol.
Lets look at when good old alcohol prohibition.
What did that do for us? It created the mob, turned the streets of chicago into a death trap that is STILL dangerous today. Cause estimated in the million+ deaths. All to what? Stop a few people who were abusing it.
You can't make something illegal and it goes away.
Cygnus... Your friend.. She was doing Illegal pot. That was eventaully laced with Illegal speed or heroin...
If she was smoking government grown weed, or better yet, eating weed brownies (which is as harmless as drinking a pepsi) then she would have been fine.
There isn't actually anything -wrong- with getting high. People do it legally every day. Runners get a runner's high when the acid level in their muscles grows to a certain level after a lot of activity. They become euphoric.
There is nothing bad about that. And there are perfectly safe ways to get high that can't be explored because they have been made illegal. Such as weed brownies.
What did making drugs illegal do?
It created the cartel.
It flooded the market with poor quality drugs, and laced drugs designed to get people addicted to other more expensive drugs.
It provided a shady way to fund dirty regimes around the world.
It put countless people in jail for life. More than 50% of all people in prison are in prison due to drug busts, and that doesn't count crime related to drugs, like theft and prostitution.
It forced addicts to turn to theft and prostitution to get drugs rather than getting to use programs like in england. Where they have clinics that give you a fix for free or cheap to keep you from turning to crime.
What do you think all goes away if drugs are made legal?
The cartel, the poor quality drugs and the laced drugs, you stop sending american money over seas where it funds some of the worst regimes and terrorists on the planet. (including the ones that attacked us) No longer will casual drug users go to prison while the cartels fatten their wallets. And the people who really do need help might actually be able to get it.
But what else?
The police who were putting all these people in jail will now be freed up to do important jobs. Like catching murderers and theives. Like patroling the streets looking for bank robbers and purse snatchers (who themselves will largely go away because those crimes are typically done to get money for drugs)... So the police will be in strong force again.
But thats not all. With the cartel and dealers gone, all those bad neighborhoods will start to clean up. It won't get rid of gangs, but the police will suddenly be freed up to deal with the gangs.
The Mob will lose a huge chunk of their funding as well. They won't be able to hold control over their cities any longer.
And we can educate our kids the right way. Based on pros and cons, not just saying drugs are bad. Don't do drugs cause they are illegal.
And when they do go out and expirement with drugs, they can do so without being criminals. Without the worry of getting hooked on some other drug due to their first toke being laced with something.
One of my closest friends nearly died the first time he smoked up. The weed was laced with something that he ended up being allergic too... Do I blame weed? No, I blame him for doing it, and the dealers for lacing their pot, and the government for making it illegal and effectively creating the situation.
If you have cheap great quality, and "safe" government drugs, the bad guys won't be able to compete... and once they are gone, drugs can be enjoyed like a fine wine... Making it illegal doesn't prevent it from happening... It just makes it worse...