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The War on Drugs

The War on Drugs is the biggest waste of money, time and energy that the US has ever undertaken. It is not only a failure, but is actually harmful to the US and it's citizens. Now, before you get the kneejerk, drugs are bad and should be banned rsponse, just read this and think for a second. Try to use reason and not just ignore your own brain because your high school teachers and the govy told you something, so it must be true.

If drugs were legalized tomorrow, would you go out and start shooting heroin and smoking meth? I wouldn't and I doubt you would either.

Really, anybody thats wants drugs can get them. It takes about 5 minutes to find anything you want in any decent sized American city. So, illegal or not, the people who want to get high are going to. Look at the stats. By the govt's own stats, drug use has stayed exactly the same all through the years, WOD or not.

One of the major problems with illegal drugs is the crime associated with them. So if they were legalized, they would be sold by major corporations and not drug cartels and street gangs. Pfizer could make and sell heroin a hell of a lot cheaper than anybody in Afghanistan. So now the cartels and gangs are cut out. Violence goes down.

But what about the users you say. Well, drug users usually commit crimes just to get money to buy more drugs. So, if a major corporation is selling them for a lot cheaper then they were, a junky would need only a fraction of the money that he used to. Again, violence and crime goes down.

Another problem is over doses and disease. Most OD's occur due to the varying purity of street drugs. Today you might buy heroin that is 30% pure and you are fine but tomorrow you might buy some that is 60% pure. So you get twice as much and OD. If drugs were controlled, everybody would know exactly what they were getting and how much. It would also eliminate all the nasty stuff used to cut drugs in order to strecth out the dealer's supply. Also, drug would be sterile since you would buy them in a pharmacy and not in a balloon hidden in some guy's ass. And if needles were available, users wouldn't have to share used ones, thus cutting down on HIV and hepatitis.

But what about the kids? Well, currently, drugs are sold by criminals who don't give a shit if they sell to a 40 year old or a 14 year old. But if drugs were sold in a pharmacy, the pharmacist would have to check ID's making sure the buyer was 18 or 21 or whatever we made the age. Make it so you have to go to a doctor so he can expalin the risks and you have to buy it at a pharmacy and you have to be 18 or 21.

Lastly, we spend around $60 Billion a year on the War on Drugs, not counting the money spent on jails and prisons and the hours street cops spend arresting people with $10 worth of coke in their pocket. That money could be spent on a lot better things like health care or education, instead of wasting it like this. Plus, if drugs were taxed like the legal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, the govt would take in billions a year. That, coupled with the billions saved, we could balance the stupid fucking budget in a year or two.

OK, this really is the last thing. Why in a country that claims to be free, can the govt tell me, an adult, what chemicals I can put into my body? As long as I don't drive and I am not a danger to anybody else, what right do you have to tell me what I can put into me? We have already tried prohibition once and it was a spectacular failure. Not only did alcohol abuse increase, it also gave birth to organized crime. So why do we think that drug prohibition is any different? Drug prohibition has been a failure since Nixon started it and hasn't gotten any better. By the govt's own stats, the same amount of people are using now as they were before the WOD and the are only stopping a small fraction of the drugs coming into the country. so why not save all of us a little greif and a lot money and just end this nonsense. Sorry this is so long, but I had to say it.




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