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Originally Posted by Defender968
I would concur on marijuana, but not on cocaine, crack, or meth. There are plenty of functional marijuana users, a few functional cocaine addicts, but I have yet to meet a functional meth or crack head, to me those are what we should be focused on. Legalize dope then tax and regulate the hell out of it, use those taxes to fund the fight against the others.
Just my .02
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I agree that it would be very hard to ever sell the American public on legalizing heroin, meth, PCP, cocaine (crack) and whatever new drug is just getting started. It sends a worse message than assisted suicide for the terminally ill IMHO. But what are the alternatives in avoiding the trade benefiting organized crime?
The result of our "War on Drugs" has been an increase of supply and profit made on the poison. I think there will always be people willing to risk the death penalty to make quick money supplying for the demand.
Has anyone but the taliban been able to stop the drug trade in
"their" area? Maybe the Chinese who executed addicts when they became over whelmed by opium?
I also think that it becomes a great deal harder for LE to follow the money trail, than the drug trail, but I'm no Narcotics LE Professional. Makes sense that drug dealers would be big campaign contributors for conservative reps - not to mention institutions that "wash" the money. Hell, how many LE and Prison Guards would be out of a job if we just sent junkies to the often revolving door of rehab?
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Originally Posted by Peregrino
Illegal drugs corrupt everybody they touch - on both sides of the law. How long before we get another generation of Kennedys financed by drug money this time?
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Ted Kennedy will have his sixth month of sobriety this Feb. 25, 2010.
