Drug Policy

29-Apr-2009 10:59 AM

Posts: 10

You propose legalizing all drugs. Seriously? Let's extend that argument. Let's legalize murder, robbery, rape, and a few other innocent crimes that people have a right to commit. Then we would need no policemen, no jails or prisons, no criminal courts, etc. Just think of all the money we could save. No only that, but this would assist Obama in his wealth redistribution scheme.

Did you really say that using drugs is a victimless crime? Have you seen people on drugs who are unable to function due to their stupor and lack of judgment? Have you seen the kind of lives their families lead? Those families are victims. Did you know that a lot of drug addicts get disability payments because they are unable to work. That makes the rest of us victims.

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29-Apr-2009 11:30 AM

Alan

Posts: 4

Fred -- There is no need to sugar coat it. Tell us how you feel. [LOL] But seriously, I believe that drug policy should be based at least as much on economic considerations as anything else. The cost of our present policy -- enforcement and lost revenues -- just doesn't justify our present policies. And in terms of social consequences, I don't see any differences between the consequences of using drugs and the use of tobacco and alcohol. ALAN

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03-May-2009 11:12 PM

Posts: 2

When an individual uses drugs, to the point of devastating their own family, that is still their own choice to do so. Our own War on Drugs devastates families even when they wouldn't other wise be at risk, in many cases. With policies that remove children from homes, and place them under State care, when perhaps there was no other threat to their existence, is even more wrong than any point that can be made.

It is the War on Drugs that creates so many household disasters, and we didn't have nearly this many calamities back in the 1960's and 1970's, prior to the government escalation of (the repeat of the failed) Prohibition.

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20-Jan-2010 03:30 PM

Posts: 3

I agree with Alan's stance on this and I think he's got some damn good idea's that I'd like to see tried out on Capitol Hill. Could it be any worse than what's already happening out there?

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11-Mar-2010 07:42 AM

JD

Posts: 1

Based on the governments own statistics, Marijuana is the USA's #1 cash crop, beating both wheat and corn combined. The potential tax revenues generated from it's legalization and taxation could cut down on the deficit.

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