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. I would free up law enforcement to go after more serious crimes and the Drug Lords would disappear because it would be taken over by big Corporations HAHAHAHA Legalize pot,? Sure - but heroin, crack?
My concern is that any legal version of an addicctive substance could become a profitable black market in a more addictive and cheaper generic brand.
All the same- I think it would have an interesting effect on society- possibly a very good one where we stop victimizing addicts and celebrating them for getting sober (when they should have never gotten strung out in the first place) . friend, you type WAY to much. Law enforcement will never stop people from smoking erb. All the system has done is make it more valuable to the importers. In a capitalistic society you will find capitalists. Is this a question or a very long statement?
They should be legalized they are already de-criminalized in eleven U.S. States....but not according to Federal law.
Legitimate distribution, as with what Tobacco proves, is better for keeping it OUT of the hands of Children. hear! hear! Okay I didn't even get through the long winded rant. However if we legalize drugs then the stupid people would kill themselves off and those who are functioning recreational users will be able to move forward and survive without fear of incarceration. |
