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View Poll Results: What would accomplish more?
Fight the war on drugs with 500 million dollars
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Buy all the drugs with 500 million dollars and then dispose of them
Spending 500 million dollars to fight the war on drugs?
Spending 500 million dollars to buy all the drugs and then burn them?
Buy them - drive up the price to insane levels, and then watch the market collapse. Classic economics. Anyone ever hear of the tulip bubble in the Netherlands?
Don't you think that buying all of the drugs for 500 million would just make the Drug cartels start producing more because they have a really good buyer?
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Don't you think that buying all of the drugs for 500 million would just make the Drug cartels start producing more because they have a really good buyer?
Yes - production will go up - However, it would be a simple sustained effort over 2-3 years, then we let the market crash, the goal is a temporary disruption, not a perm one. We would still continue destruction of drug crops.
That's what they are spending in Afghanistan to destroy the poppy fields. There was an Explorer special on the Nat'l Geographic HD channel on that. I mentioned it in another thread last week.
How about we just legalize them and prostitution. Tax it. Use the revenue to fix the country and help junkies. The end.
Oscar Goodman, the mayor of Vegas, has proposed exactly that - at least for prostitution (it's legal in the other counties of Nevada, but not Clark & 1 other). Hope it gains some traction and does well, but I'm not holding my breath.
As for legalizing drugs - OK with Marijuana, but when you start getting into the hard stuff, I have a problem with it. I would much rather see more money going into rehab programs and preventative methods than "fighting it on the streets".
I've never understood why we give the government the right to determine that any drug of any kind is illegal.
People who wish to abuse drugs will always get them, regardless of government policy.
What we accomplish in making drugs illegal is:
1. Drive the prices up,
2. Create the perfect conditions for criminal gangs to get wealthy servicing the market,
3. Endanger our citizens lives and property when druggies turn to theft to pay the going rates,
4. Endanger the lives of law enforcement people,
5. Create a whole self-expanding government industry of "war on drugs" people,
6. Drive up our taxes to pay for criminal defenses, prisons, and so on and so on.
There's a lot more, but you get the picture. I'm a conservative and agree with the position Bill Buckley took many years ago -- drugs should be legalized.
As far as the Legal Meth? :shudder: comment, I don't know of a single meth user who can't get meth right now. Do you?
I lost one brother, Dennis, to heroin, died at age 35 and am losing another brother right now, Daniel, age 48, to meth. They were both life-long abusers of anything and everything, starting with alcohol. Illegality was meaningless for them, in my opinion.
Cut the crap. Get the government out of my pocket and make my life safer. Legalize all drugs.
I've never understood why we give the government the right to determine that any drug of any kind is illegal.
People who wish to abuse drugs will always get them, regardless of government policy.
What we accomplish in making drugs illegal is:
1. Drive the prices up,
2. Create the perfect conditions for criminal gangs to get wealthy servicing the market,
3. Endanger our citizens lives and property when druggies turn to theft to pay the going rates,
4. Endanger the lives of law enforcement people,
5. Create a whole self-expanding government industry of "war on drugs" people,
6. Drive up our taxes to pay for criminal defenses, prisons, and so on and so on.
There's a lot more, but you get the picture. I'm a conservative and agree with the position Bill Buckley took many years ago -- drugs should be legalized.
As far as the Legal Meth? :shudder: comment, I don't know of a single meth user who can't get meth right now. Do you?
I lost one brother, Dennis, to heroin, died at age 35 and am losing another brother right now, Daniel, age 48, to meth. They were both life-long abusers of anything and everything, starting with alcohol. Illegality was meaningless for them, in my opinion.
Cut the crap. Get the government out of my pocket and make my life safer. Legalize all drugs.
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