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NubiWan
Skeptic Friend
USA
424 Posts |
 Posted - 12/20/2001 : 20:41:50
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It's high time to get serious about fighting terrorism. It is well known, that terrorist as well as other bad actors, use the 'illegal' drug trade to raise money. There is a direct coorrelation to the price of heroin and the number of burglaries in NYC, the higher the price, the more burglaries. Wouldn't it be better for all concerned, to treat these misuses as a medical problem, rather than a criminal one? Register the addicts, and sell them their stuff, and tax it on a cost plus basis. Or paying the 40K$ per year for merely incarcerating each one, with little or no, attempt at treatment for their addiction. When they are returned to society with little chance at a productive career, and the best they've ever felt or likely to feel, in their lives, was stoned, wonder if they'll stay straight? Am using heroin as an example, because it's hook is the biggest me knows, but the principle holds true for all 'illegal' drugs IMO. Believe it or shut up, most herion addicts, if given the means and choice, would prefer to work at their jobs, pay their taxes, and shy away from the dangerous activities of real crimes.
From before recorded history, humanity has found ways to "step outside" their normal daily reality, using various substances, and seriously doubt any of us will live to see the practice cease. Some of the modern forms, such as "huffing," aren't even illegal AFAIK nor controllable, using readily avaiable cleansers and other legal chemicals, and yet, are the most dangerous to the foolish practitioners. At the risk of impairing one of the largest growth industries in our most free of countries, that of building and managing prisons, am suggesting the method of criminalizing drug use or misuse, just does not, has not, and will not, work. Our tax dollars would better be spent, not on scare'm straight with distortions, but with the staight-dope, unadorned education, while increasing the availability of out-patient medical assistance for those trying to get 'clean.' Grant the danger of bringing government budgets back into the black, should we shift to this emphasis, butt IMO it's well worth the risk.
So my fellow Americans, I call for an end to these immoral subsidies, that benefit only our enemies. I call for bringing the full force of the free market to bear, driving the ungodly profits from the drug trade, and the cessation of the ghastly expensive and totally unproductive, policy of incarcerating the huge numbers of other wise loyal, productive, patriotic Americans. It's time to hit these damned terrorist where it really hurts, in the pocket! Decriminalize drug use, now!
"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." -Voltaire
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