| Maybe I just missed it, but I haven't seen this topic around here. I'm wondering what everyone's take on this issue is?
Personally, I see our laughable "war on drugs" as not only unwinnable (didn't ANYONE learn anything from Americs'a prohibition experiment with alcohol?) and poorly thought out with no consideration of human nature or history. Just as Prohibition nurtured the mobs back then, drug prohibition is nurturing the more violent drug gangs today. The answer to drug-related crime seems clear. Legalize it, period. It takes away the easy money, profit motive away from the gangs and individual dealers, AND would support a new American industry, which can be regulated and taxed.
What's the difference between drugs and alcohol here? You can either suck down a couple of pints of Southern Comfort and get commode hugging drunk, or smoke a few joints and giggle all night with a mouthful of chips and playing Pink Floyd over and over. Either way, ain't nobody's buisness but yours, right?
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |