I am a passionate believer of decriminalization of narcotics and even legalizing most.
I think that the police and other disciplinary services have better things to do then run around busting 20 year old kids trying to escape for a few hours at a time. It would cut off the income to criminal organizations. The amount of money the government will gain in taxes if companies take over, could probably solve the lack of money for education, health, and social services at one go.
No one will end up ODing on a bad batch again. It will make some poverty ridden, war lord run countries into viable economies. I know a few retired and current police officers and judges who believe the same thing, after spending years seeing tragedy after tragedy.
It won¡¦t be an easy change, but it must be done at some point. I know the way things as is, does not work and something new must be tried. It¡¦s one of those things I would like to explore on the blog at some point. Not today, but the reason I am putting this out is there is a new site called Drugwar Rant, and I would like to introduce it:
Drug War Rant: http://www.drugwarrant.com
I think it will mainly talk about the situation in the US, but if there is one country that¡¦s got it wrong, and the government and the people are at odd about it, especially over the issues of medical marijuana it would be it.
Peter also wrote a very funny and achingly true satire on Hamburgers using the same rhetoric which is applied to any debate about drugs. Unless people can start talking about it in a sensible manner, people are just going to go to jail, kids are going to be coerced into doing things they don¡¦t want, a huge amount of people are going to be working for an underground economy making some very questionable characters very very rich.
I have said it before on this blog, that I find the state of the world rather sad and shocking, but I also believe if enough people ask for the impossible, we are going to win eventually.
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