Washington, DC—Millions of America’s inhabitants are
addicted to chemicals that have been outlawed.
The list of banned substances grows every day as ignorant politicians
try to enjoin pathetic people seeking new ways to escape reality and experience
intoxication. The police state constantly
increases its grip on innocent people that don’t use or want drugs. Then there are all of us that must pay for
the massive failure called the Drug War.
The simple truth is that drug laws have not prevented those
who crave illicit drugs from obtaining them.
The laws have not saved lives. On
the contrary the laws have resulted in thousands of killings related to drug
trafficking. Unfortunately many killed
are not involved with drugs. Thousands
of lives have been shattered and destroyed by bad police work, botched drug
raids and false imprisonment.
The very worst of criminals and corrupt government officials
are being obscenely enriched because of the Drug War’s guarantee to keep drug
trafficking profits at the highest levels. We have the absolute power to put
these criminals out of business in a single day, by simple legalization.
How should we legalize drugs? Some say regulate and tax them. On it’s face, collecting taxes on the backs
of drug addicts sounds great. The
reality is that continued regulation and taxing of the drugs keep opportunities
for government corruption and the same criminals we seek to bankrupt. There should be no regulation of drugs marked
to feed recreation and addiction.
Consumers of the poison need to beware and find their own methods of
quality control. How is that somehow
different that what’s going on right now?
Drugs sold for therapeutic reasons still need the FDA and
quality control. There should be no
changes here other than to let physicians prescribe whatever drugs they see fit
for their patients. Heroin has a
legitimate place in pain management and treatment of elderly and dying
patients. Physicians cannot now use it
for any patient for any reason. In this
regard cops need to be removed from our doctor’s offices.
We need to end the arrest, searches and, prosecutions of
anyone for mere possession, manufacturing or sale of drugs. We can do this while keeping the violent
behind bars along with those involved with government corruption and money
laundering. That same should hold true
for those who have not reported or paid income tax on their ill-gotten
gains.
If we take these simple steps, we do know that street crime
will drop to the lowest level ever.
There will be no more turf wars, between drug lords.
Right now many addicts have habits that consume well beyond
$1000,00 per day. They can’t earn the
money any other way than theft, burglary, robbery, sex commerce and involvement
in the illicit drug trade. The outlawed
drugs would not exceed to price of sugar, coffee or tea without the
prohibition.
If the Drug War had any success at all I guess continuing it
would have some benefit. However we all
know the Drug War’s only benefit is to make rich criminals richer. Why do we tolerate and continue feeding this
disaster?
I would like to see the day that addicts seeking treatment
to get well can simply walk into a medical facility to turn their lives
around. Instead we have created scam
opportunities for bogus government drug treatment contractors that do nothing
more than warehouse addicts simply to shave prison time off of their
punishment.
Drug addicts are easily hated and demonized. They are a desperate lot that will victimize
or do the most despicable acts just to feed their habits. Perhaps it’s the right time to help these
sick bastards become healthy and productive.
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