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Drugs: Addicted to Hypocrisy?
***Poll taking place at link below***
(the emphasis in capital letters is mine)
Just Say Maybe
For an example of how NOT to make good health policy, consider the
international debate on drugs
Source: The Economist, April 5-11th 2003
The framework for global drug policies is set by three UN
conventions... [which] set rules prohibiting the production,
manufacture, trade, use or possession of potentially harmful drugs...
That means [the signataries] are, on the face of it, prevented from
experimenting with the idea that CONTROLLED, PERMITTED use
may be less harmful than the side-effects of prohibition.
Plenty of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and even some
government ministers (in private, at least) now recognize that these
treaties and the policies they encourage are the WRONG WAY to tackle
drug abuse.
The arguments for a different approach have grown stronger, not
weaker, since 1998. The failure of the current policy has become much
clearer. There is no sign that government intervention has cut supply...
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AND WHILE THE BIG SHOTS ARE INSULATED FROM THE PROBLEM,
DOWN THERE, IN THE GHETTO...
They have 40 *BILLION* dollars for the "War on Drugs" next year.
New prisons in almost every state, several new prisons in a few states. And,
they get high in jail. Dope is as easy to buy in jail as it is out here. All you need
is money. WTF are these people thinking???
40 *BILLION* dollars to continue a losing battle that is killing the youth
of our country. Trying to get ahead in this society after having been
convicted of a drug crime is a real bleak future. I have a bud, an old Navy
diver, who cant get a job driving a fucking truck, because he has a felony
conviction for growing marijuana that goes back to 1974. The guy is a 10
year Navy veteran, made one simple mistake *26* years ago, has been in *no*
trouble since, and can't get a fucking job that he can support himself on. We
should be ashamed.
Do people realize that the population in 20 years is going to made up of a
*significant* number of convicted felons who *can't* vote? And who are
going to be pissed off, and tired of being under the Big Brother thumb. Tired
of a life of poverty because they made a mistake in their youth, and have been
made to pay for it for their entire lives.
*Prisons are now being run at a profit by private corporations*. So, if they
keep it up, they are creating a future labor force of cheap, disposable
laborers who have been stripped of all rights, hope and dignity. "Act right,
do the job we give you, or sit in a cage."
Look at it this way: I was in basic with a black kid from Detroit. About 6
weeks in they found he had a heart murmur, and were going to discharge him
as unfit. He was a model recruit, squared away and trying real hard to be a
Marine. When he got the news, he told me "I ain't going back home, man."
Later that night, he drank a half a can of Brasso.
For him, life in America offered two choices:
Be a Detroit Ghetto Black man, and spend your life in shit (like his dad and
everyone he knows), or be a Marine (none of the other branches would take
him). When he lost the option of getting out of Detroit, no matter the cost,
he chose death rather than go home. Until that moment, I never realized how
bad *some* children in this country have it. Grow up in a place where you
never see anything but pigeons, dogs and cats. Never seen a cow. Since that
moment, I have never forgot. If I grew up like most kids in the ghettos of
America, I would be a gun totin, dope selling, white man hating, cop
shooting MF too, hoping to make that one big score, and get out (it's either
dream, or work at McDonalds). Our prisons are full of them.
2 *MILLION* people in prison in the US right now, more than Russia or China,
1/2 of those for dope.
We should, every last flag waving one of us, be ashamed of our failure.
Scott
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WE SOLVED THE DRUG WAR SIXTY YEARS AGO
Crime was rampant. Drug gangs battled on our streets. Drug dealers sold their wares
everywhere, even to schoolchildren. Police could do nothing. The vast profits of drug
smuggling fueled corruption and violence, and the drug scourge seemed poised to topple
America.
The drug? Alcohol. The solution?
END PROHIBITION
On December 5th, 1933, prohibition ended. That day, the drug lords were out of business.
Today we have a new drug war, but the solution is the same: take away their profits and
PUT THE DRUG DEALERS OUT OF BUSINESS
In South America, Coca is as safe as coffee. Coca isn’t available in the United States: drug
smugglers find it easier to smuggle cocaine. In the east, opium is safer than tobacco. Drug
smugglers find it easier to smuggle heroin, a hundred times more powerful. Our prisons
overflow with pot smokers, while real criminals are let loose because we have nowhere to put
them! We spend billions of dollars every year to fight the drug war, and have nothing to show
for it but a few red ribbons and a lot of political hot air. Some of our children find it easier to
buy illegal drugs than legal ones like alcohol! Alcohol dealers have to follow the law. Cocaine
and heroin dealers are already breaking the law by selling drugs in the first place. Why should
they care about breaking another one about selling to children? Ending alcohol prohibition
took alcohol out of our schools. We did it then:
WE CAN DO IT AGAIN!
source...
http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/Fliers/Solve%20the%20Drug%20War.pdf
Prisoner Abuse...
http://www.november.org/abuse/media.html
Narco News...
http://www.narconews.com/en.html
The Swiss experiment...
http://www.sptimes.com/News/073101/Worldandnation/Heroin_for_addicts_wo.shtml
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