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Do we really want to legalize drugs?
Category: Health, RantingWhy would you want to legalize recreational drugs? They keep our jails full, keep our law enforcement busy chasing down gangs that distribute it, provide a huge drain on our economy that goes out of the country, keeps some portions of our population destitute, keeps a steady flow of unsavory people coming in and out of our country, funds terrorist activities around the world, keeps the coroners busy with gang murders and drive-by shootings and on and on…
Think of all the people who would suddenly become unemployed. Police, prison guards, customs inspectors to name a few. All those drug pushers would have to find alternative jobs. Politicians would lose all their under the table income.
Come on - get real - do we really want to legalize drugs.
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I can see the gray future from them.
You mention a few of the very reasons marijuana should be legal. A lot of the people in jail because of smoking or possesing some amount of pot is unbelievable.
The worst part is, that these are just average people being treated like criminals. They don’t lock people up for drinking or smoking cigs.
Alcohol causes fatal car accidents. No one has died because of pot.
I have a brain injury and it’s the only thing that helps me feel like a normal person. Having a brain injury has been a life changing horrible thing for me. I was ready to turn to valium or anything that would help. Well smoking a little pot helps so much. I have, Tinnitus, seizures, depression, hemiparisis, and just the way my head feels.
No doctors can help me. I don’t want to break the law. I’m not a bad person. I don’t smokes cigs or drink, I would never steal or even treat anyone other than the way I would expect to be treated, that’s all I do is smoke a little pot to help me not go nuts. I’m not a criminal
Number of American deaths per year that result directly or primarily from the following selected causes nationwide, according to World Almanacs, Life Insurance Actuarial (death) Rates, and the last 20 years of U.S. Surgeon Generals’ reports.
TOBACCO 340,000 to 450,000
ALCOHOL (Not including 50% of all highway deaths and 65% of all murders) 150,000+
ASPIRIN (Including deliberate overdose) 180 to 1,000+
CAFFEINE (From stress, ulcers, and triggering irregular heartbeats, etc.) 1,000 to 10,000
“LEGAL” DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental) from legal, prescribed or patent medicines and/or mixing with alcohol - e.g. Valium/alcohol 14,000 to 27,000
ILLICIT DRUG OVERDOSE (Deliberate or accidental) from all illegal drugs. 3,800 to 5,200
MARIJUANA 0
(Marijuana users also have the same or lower incidence of murders and highway deaths and accidents than the general non-marijuana using population as a whole. Crancer Study, UCLA; U.S. Funded ($6 million), First & Second Jamaican Studies, 1968 to 1974; Costa Rican Studies, 1980 to 1982; et al. LOWEST TOXICITY 100% of the studies done at dozens of American universities and research facilities show pot toxicity does not exist. Medical history does not record anyone dying from an overdose of marijuana (UCLA, Harvard, Temple, etc.).
Legalize so that a ruling body may monitor the activity. Laws and regulations, as well as restrictions may still be imposed, but outright banning should be out of the question, because people will tend to want something more if they can’t have it easily. A person must obtain these only if the conditions are met. That’s a part of legalization…. control.
If it remains illegal, who knows when and where it has sprung, spread and even stored. What’s happening now is damage control, not prevention. People still get it ONLY from illegal sources.
If a government can take charge of the distribution of still-illegal drugs, things will be better. Bad activities may be prevented simply because the source instills a due process by which the item can be obtained.
Let’s face it, the war on drugs is lost. Prohibition does not stop people from wanting to use a drug - if anything, it encourages them! Licensed drugstores could provide consistant quality, the government could produce an income through taxation and the price could be kept low enough to wipe out the black market. Most deaths from illegal drugs are not from the drug per say, but due to the inconsistant quality.
Hi
Legalise drugs so that your 10 yr old can get it even easier….this is just the marijuana
Lots smoke it because it is illegale it is their flouting of the law
Legalise it what do they use next…hard drugs
Cmon be real
Lets jsut legalise ecstasy or heroine what the heck
Take any drug you want with no consequence
Smoke drink and drive and be done with it
Who cares of the after effects for everyone
Just please yourself now
As that is the type of society we live in
Wonder if it was caused by the free love dope smoking hippies that so many people have no brains left….the mind boggles
Luv Deb
First of all if you aren’t keeping track of what a 10 year old does that’s problem 1. A parent is the one who should keep a 10 year old from obtaining pot!
“Lots smoke it because it is illegale it is their flouting of the law”
Let’s see, I’m the one who smokes pot to help with my brain injury symptoms. Yet, you are the one who cannot write a proper sentence or SPELL.
And let’s just legislate heroine? Good point, but we don’t want our leaders to legislate their own morality. People will decide how they want to live or throw-away their life no matter what anyone tells them they should do. Just sad but true. Marijuana doesn’t lead to people using hard drugs. It’s been documented.
I’m a little high right now as I’m writing this and am able to have clear thought on how I want to respond to your comments Deb. I have a fractured rib and turned down a pain pill oxycottin (not sure of spelling) I turned it down this morning because I don’t like to feel all medicated.
All marijuana smokers want is the right to use a completely natural substance. Many times it’s for medical reasons or others because it’s like having a fine glass of wine. It tastes good and makes you feel a little nice too.
By the way it boggles my mind how a person can insult former “hippies” parents of 10 year olds and pot smokers and then end with “LUV DEB”
Where’s the love?
To BlackWidowKate,
You can start criticizing drugs and marijuana in particular when you can put together a coherent sentence, and learn to spell.
To the “Radical ranter,”
Moving on to address some of these issues…
1) I don’t know many drug dealers who sell to children: in fact, I personally know none. It’s not pragmatic. A child doesn’t have a credible or renewable source of income. I, however, do admit though that I personally have never witnessed it, I’m sure some drug dealer somewhere has sold marijuana to a ten year old. Which brings me to my next point…
2) Legalized, marijuana would be regulated. Power over the drug market would be taken directly FROM the drug dealers hands, and put INTO federal and/or state guidelines. Enough said on that point.
3) As for the “drain on our economy due to drug outsourcing,” or whatever you were attempting to say in the blog, when marijuana, or drugs period, are regulated, they will of course be taxed, and heftily so (sin tax anyone?). In fact, there’s a bill currently advocated by over 500 of the world’s top economists, including Nobel Prize winner, and co-designer of our current economic system, Milton Friedman. It goes on at length to show how many billions of dollars marijuana regulation would create.
4) All the points you made about “gang murders” and “gang drug pushers,” along with the lovely bit about “keeping coroners and police busy,” would all be moot with marijuana and other drugs legalized. Not to say that the gang murders would stop, or that gangs wouldn’t still keep the police and coroners busy - I’m sure that would stay the same. What would change, however, would be that drugs would no longer influence these murders, or gangs, or what have you, as the drug business is now in the hands of the government.
5) As to your final point, the one about the policemen, prison guards and officials, etc. being out of jobs… Tough shit. That’s what happens when you privatize prisons and jails, and depend on them for massive amounts of income in a community. what happens when crime numbers drop suddenly, and in a very big way? When your community is dependent upon keeping people locked up, and there’s no one to lock up, what happens to the community? It financially is brought to ruin, and for good reason.
Look at jail/prison numbers. Why do you think the prison industry is booming, and more and more people are being labeled criminals? Is it really any surprise that the prison guard union is the largest union in this country? You NEED criminals to keep a CRIMINAL FACILITY filled; when those number-needs aren’t met, prisons don’t make money. When prisons don’t make money, they can’t afford to keep guards and staff on board, looking after empty jail/prison cells.
6) As for the politicians no longer getting paid “under-the-table” income from certain drug pushers/shady characters, there will always be someone to take the place of that income giver: lobbyists, for one.
Lastly, I conclude that if you decide to blog/rant, or whatever you choose to call it, at least choose a subject that you’re familiar with, and passionate about. Otherwise, you risk looking like the jackass that you really are, and isn’t that the main reason you chose to hide behind a computer blog?