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Where the war on drugs crosses the line is when nonviolent offenders are busted and thrown in with violent offenders. People who support such laws are more morally bankrupt than the users themselves and I would rather see THEM in jail than some poor kid who rolled a joint, smoked some dust or slammed some h.
1. Figure out how to keep it out of the hands of minors 100%.
2. Figure out how those who do partake and make themselves as pickled as drunks can be held responsible for the mess they're making (along with drunks). Forcing all of civilization to navigate around them as they abdicate responsibility/ competence for citizenship isn't working out.
3. Figure out who is at risk for becoming an addict and set up prevention plans for them.
But all those things apply to alcohol, too.
We should either ban booze or legalize (on a sliding scale) drugs.
If we tolerate alcohol in society, there is no reason why we cannot do the same for pot.
I would rather that we spent the excessive monies that we now do in building prisons into rehabs for addicts.
Drugs are so commonly available in our society that pretty much everyone who wants to try a drug already has. I don't believe that there will be an increased demand if the stuff were legalized. It still would screw up families and jobs and leave empty people around, but they would have chances to turn their lives around (it usually takes many of these attempts before a person can do this), not a conviction on their record.
I hardly touch alcohol and could not care less about the other drugs. It is just that the money thrown around in the drug world is, to me, more of a corrupting influence on our society than the addicts. It corrupts police, officials of every sized town, the armed forces, and a lot more than I have knowledge of, I'll wager.
We are seeing entire nations south of our border who are dependent upon drug sales in the US. These countries are totally ruined because of drugs. I think the same thing is happening here, and all because of the supposedly moral stance of our leaders, some of whom are probably profiting. It's a sick situation and must stop.
Last edited by goldengrain; 03-04-2012 at 03:54 PM..
Where the war on drugs crosses the line is when nonviolent offenders are busted and thrown in with violent offenders. People who support such laws are more morally bankrupt than the users themselves and I would rather see THEM in jail than some poor kid who rolled a joint, smoked some dust or slammed some h.
I agree. Me personally, I support the legalization of pot 1,000%! With the other drugs, I think you're playing with fire, and a complete dumba** for messing with coke, heroin, meth or some of that other dumb s***! But still I'd rather try and help those people get their act cleaned up, and on track than throw them in jail, and slap a record on them, in which it might as well be a life sentence, because good luck finding a good job! Granted, they have to want help, and we can't save everyone. However; locking up users isn't doing anything to fix the problem.
It will never end. Too much money involved from both sides (bad guys and good guys). It's a thriving industry and the government is thriving off it.
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