Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?
Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?
Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, and doctors to control cannabis use.
The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful. This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.
Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect. There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.) That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.
Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it鈥檚 a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it 鈥?a war on drugs鈥?(Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)
America loves a war even if it is on it鈥檚 own people.
One of several reason they don鈥檛 legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry, the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don鈥檛 drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.
The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it鈥檚 possible to get two harvest in in one season.
However people don鈥檛 know the difference between industrial hemp and smokable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country鈥檚 like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.
The petroleum industry would be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it鈥檚 land for hemp production we could create enough biofuel to supply an area the size of Canada.
Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells.
So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.
Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc
or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,
(they would miss there green $$$)
Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. You make some great points.
I have to agree that it should be legalized especially if alcohol is legal. I also agree the reason the laws are so harsh on drugs is b/c the government gets no $$$ from the sale of drugs.....but the government doesn't want to legalize it b/c of the bad press so they are caught in a catch 22.
Bottom line I believe that it should be legal. Most drugs were legal at one time and used in pharmacies. Come on Coca Cola used to have cocaine as an ingredient. I agree that decriminalization would probably be for the good. Drugs with recreational aplication should still be regulated, of course, just as alchohol is, and there is nothing wrong with highly public campaigns to discourage thier use - as has been going on with tobacco for years. they are not trying to fix problems. The war on drugs is a way to increase the police state, not fix problems.
The CIA imports cocaine and heroine. The economy is dependent on drug trade. Do some research and you will find that if they really wanted to stop the importation of drugs, they could. I am a geographic Information analyst and i can tell you for a fact that this is the case. Technology allows us to see where the drugs are from satellites and they could be stopped if the government had any plans to.
The war on drugs is a sham. Need to look at some facts first. Alcohol is legal, people buy it, drink it, go to bar's, take it home and have party time. How many people die on the nations highways daily from alcohol related events????80%? 85% 95%??
On Friday and Saturday night, 98% of most accidents involve alcohol so, if we legalize pot, crack, crank, PCP, meth and such, we can multiply the number of drug related accidents on the highway by how much??? double, triple, or how about 100 times more!!!!
If your family is the one who gets wipped out by a driver on drugs, who you going to sue???? Who will you blame for that???? If the Government makes it legal, then they would be responsible.
It doesnt make sense to give a monkey a loaded shot-gun and it sure dont make sense to legalize the stuff we know kills people and while under the use of it, causes others to die. Legalize pot yes, but I think Methamphetamine should stay illegal, with stiffer penalties. This is a scourge on America, and should be eradicated. In fact, I think pot is the ONLY drug we should legalize, that alone would clean out jails, prisons and ease the court systems, so they can handle the serious crimes.
I agree with you on the many uses of hemp, and the medicinal properties of marijuana. I think its time America was re-educated, and took a good long look at the pros of cannabis. leap.cc speak the truth brother! truth is people don't want to give personal freedom they want to force the agenda on others. forget drugs and effects, just think if we spent the billions we spend on the war on drugs on education, how many less kids would feel the need to use drugs. and that's only one of many major problems with the war on drugs. I have been told by many drug enforcement officers, most in narcotics, that marijuana should be legalized. Internationally, medical doctors have said that there have been no overdoses from the use of marijuana. If one needs a drug, the doctors prefer marijuana over tobacco and alcohol.
Recently, a teenager, Orlando Garcia, was charged with the murder of a Tennessee Highway Patrolman, Calvin Jenkins. Mr. Garcia was stopped by Patrolman Jenkins in Tipton county near Covington, TN. Patrolman Jenkins was much loved by his family and his community. It is a tragic story.
After the shooting, Garcia and Guana, Garcia's accomplice, promised two men marijuana in exchange for a ride to Nashville. Those two men later led FBI agents to the hotel room in Nashville where Garcia and Guana had checked in.
In my opinion a dear, sweet man, loved by his family and community, patrolman Calvin Jenkins, was killed because a teenager was in fear of going to prison because he possessed marijuana, a harmless drug.
Marijuana is harmless. The laws make it dangerous. Patrolman Jenkins was sworn to uphold the laws. Because of the laws, Calvin Jenkins is no longer with us. May peace be with his loved ones.
Marijuana doesn't kill, the marijuana laws kill.
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