‘Real News From The Blaze’ Takes on the War on Drugs
- Posted on April 12, 2012 at 5:56pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Anyone growing up in the 1980s and 1990s should be well aware of Dare, “this is your brain on drugs,” and to “just say no.” But is it time to just say no on the War on Drugs?
The question is appropriate to ponder as President Barack Obama is preparing to go down to Columbia for the Summit of the Americas this weekend to meet with the other leaders of the western hemisphere. The president has previously said legalization of drugs is a “legitimate” topic of debate. The Washington Post reports that when the president will arrive at the summit this weekend, he will hear Latin American leaders say that the U.S.-orchestrated war on drugs is failing and needs to be reconsidered.
“Latin American leaders say they have not developed an alternative model to the approach favored by successive American administrations since Richard Nixon was in office. But the Colombian government says a range of options — including decriminalizing possession of drugs, legalizing marijuana use and regulating markets — will be debated at the Summit of the Americas in the coastal city of Cartagena.
Faced with violence that has left 50,000 people dead in Mexico and created war zones in Central America, regional leaders have for months been openly discussing what they view as the shortcomings of the U.S. approach. But the summit marks the first opportunity for many of them to directly share their grievances with Obama.”
Foreign Policy magazine reports that the issue of decriminalizing and perhaps even legalizing cocaine, heroin, and marijuana will be the “gorilla in the room” when regional leaders meet April 14 and 15 in Cartagena, Colombia.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina have called for discussing a new drug strategy.
The “Real News” panel discussed the costly and deadly War on Drugs Thursday. Buck Sexton is not in the business of absolutes, but argued Thursday that leaders should look into “tweaking” the War on Drugs, for example decriminalizing smaller amounts of “softer” drugs fore personal possession. Accompanied by a graphic, Sexton analyzed the drug policies in the western hemisphere, categorizing nations into three groups: Against legalizing, welcome debate and for legalizing.
Jedediah Bila played devil‘s advocate against Buck’s presentation, pointing to stats suggesting that current U.S. policy may be achieving some positive things.
“We have a forty percent drop in cocaine use in the United States since 2006, sixty-eight percent drop in the number of people testing positive for cocaine in the workplace….. That tells me that we’re doing something right. I’m also not convinced that you legalize marijuana and somehow the murder rate goes drastically down”
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omgfolks
Posted on April 14, 2012 at 7:34amThis so call war on drugs has cost the American Tax payer trillions of dollars over the years and really need to stop. About the only thing it has done is strip citizens of rights and money from their pockets. We have filled the jails with pot smokers to where violent offenders have no place to go. While it has been proven that pot is less harmful to society and health we continue to dump tax payer dollars into trying to eradicate something that has remained in society for almost 100 years. How stupid is that? The money spent has pushed contributed to the national debt, the over crowding of prisons, the inflated police departments over burdening city county and state budgets and for what? If your going to win a war, you must make lose some battles, dropping the battle on pot would free up resources to go after the meth dealers, the crack heads that are the actually problem. Legalizing marijuana and taxing it, as any other product could actually fund the battle on the meth dealers and crack raid, there by reducing our taxes to and lessoning the debt we all owe. Part of reason goverment refuses in because they will have to admit they lied to the American Public about marijuana use. that they wasted trillions, but once they get past their collective embarrassment and face the facts most Americans have know for years, then they can actually do some good. We need to legalize marijuana and raise the bar on the killer drugs like meth, crack, etc.
Report Post »beckyspatflaveredstew
Posted on April 14, 2012 at 12:57amThe war on drugs, Millions of humans in jail, victimless crimes, black ops funding, try out new taxpayer funded toys, depose unapproved leaders, please the bankers who own it all.
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on April 14, 2012 at 10:17pmThe war on drugs is a war against our own people. In other words it is really a civil war. It is the government destroying lives and confiscating property to protect itself.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 5:01pmptthhh what war on drugs? if there was a REAL war on drugs there wouldnt be a problem.. You find drug dealers.. you kill them. simple.. they wont deal drugs anymore…
Report Post »coolerheads
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 7:55pmTake that, free market!
Report Post »desertspeaks
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 3:47pmThe war on drugs in the U.S. is a sham, why you ask? well, were the government agencies charged with the war, to actually win, they would be out of a job! war over, go home! Now what government employee is EVER going to work so hard as to remove his reason for being there and collecting a check???? NOT ONE!!!!! EVER!!!!!!
Report Post »There is ZERO incentive to win this so called war! There is entirely to much money in the GAME for the war to EVER be over. Additionally the added perks of destroying the Constitution is to much for the government to pass up on. That pesky thing is “or was” always getting in the way. If the war were over, that pesky Constitution and the bill of rights might return.
THATS WHY THE WAR ON TERRORISM WILL NEVER END AS WELL!!!
Remember kids, our government via the CIA created Al Qaeda.
See the government created the problem of terrorism by its meddling around the the affairs of other government and making martyrs in those countries, thereby growing the hatred that is being reaped now! So now that they created the problem in the first place by creating the terrorists and alleged attacks, we called for the government to protect us from something they themselves created. Then they come to our rescue by providing the totalitarian solutions we see enacted now. Further shredding the Constitution and the bill of rights, and when we called for the government to protect us This is GIVING THE GOVERNMENT YOUR CONSENT TO SHRED MORE RIGHTS!
Class dismisse
chicago76
Posted on April 14, 2012 at 10:21pmIt is not a sham. The government really believes it is a Civil War. Much like that which occurred in 1861. The government is afraid that if it legalizes drugs, the drug lords will take over, and oust the parties in power with all their money. It is most definitely a Civil War. Once we treat this like a real Civil War, everything the government is doing makes sense.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 1:35pmI’m actually in favor of de-criminalizing all drugs. Even the hard ones.
Its not because I want anything to do with them, quite the opposite. I live in proximity to a high demographic of meth users and manufacturers – with tons of cash being thrown at the drug from law enforcement. I see it doing nothing but tieing up law enforcement resources in matters they obviously can’t control or even diminish. I’d rather those officers be “serving and protecting” the property and rights of non-drug users.
Hard drug users are “self-eliminating”. Users take themselves out of society either by disassociation or death. I’d rather their negative example be demonstrated as a very practical and visible warning to people not to use drugs than the endless excuses we hear for its use – and subsequent government programs to rehabilitate (either by incarceration or voluntary at no cost to the addict).
Drivers under the influence? I’m frankly more worried about lawful folks hopped up on their legitimate prescription meds than I am either drunks or illegal users. Best I can tell, they are all addicts. The “legal” addicts far outnumber the “illegal” addicts – and are just as dangerous. Its usually easy to distinquish the 20 year old rusted out meth wagon from the balance of vehicles. Not so easy to distinguish a whacked out of her mind, hydrocodone poppin‘ grandma’s Buick from a person of sobriety.
Report Post »robert
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 2:33pmI agree. The war against drugs is a failure.
Not only has it failed, but the lack of ability to stop the flow has created drug cartel strength in Mexico that rivals the power of the Mexican military. Too, drug income to the gangs estimated from this country alone amounts to 60 billion dollars annually, putting them on a par with many governments of the world. One Mexican investigative reporter said if the cartels stopped fighting long enough to direct their forces against the government they could take it over right now.
Budgets everywhere in the US are out of whack and revenues are falling, requiring serious cutbacks in all governmental functions including the courts, jails, and prisons.
The best way to eliminate the military threat of drug cartels and alleviate prisons and court costs here would be to legalize all drugs, but especially pot.
And, before anyone asks, “No” I don’t do ANY kind of drugs period, but I am a part-Libertarian type and believe what people put into their own bodies is their own business and not the government’s.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 2:59pmI agree with you. It is pretty easy for me to see and stay away from the old beater car while driving or riding my motorcycle. It is also easy for me to see and stay away from the completely trashed drunk guy who is swerving all over and call the police to come and deal with him and him alone as he is very literally about to commit manslaughter or kill himself. But it is hard to tell which car is being driven by the person whose reaction time is slowed with pain medication or muscle relaxers. I think we should stop putting people in jail where we have to pay for their 3 squares and sex changes over possession or distribution to other ADULTS. If an adult wants to do something stupid, in this society we let them and then they must deal with the consequences. Do we arrest ever Tom, Dick, and Jill for cheating on their spouse because they are making a horrible life decision? Nope. Nor should we.
Oh, and in case any of you women were wondering…
I do avoid cars driven by women. Especially moms in minivans trying to discipline toddlers in the backseat at 70 mph and women more interested in their makeup than safely traveling A->B. And I would be remiss if I didn‘t tell you that it isn’t safe or wise to enter a 65-70 mph highway at 40 or to travel in the far left lane at the “speed limit”.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 1:11pmall you need to know is that is was started by nixon – case closed
eliminate all progressivism
Report Post »SeanW
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 12:57pmNo robust drug production here? Why do you allow moronic people to sit on your panels talking out of their ******** with facts and figures that have zero basis in reality? Way to lower the conversation to the level of a third grader.
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 10:35amLike every other war we don’t fight to win.
Report Post »kindsoul
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 10:59amThe war on drugs isn’t a war you can win.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 1:02pmhow do you fight a war against an activity or an idea?
war on drugs
Report Post »war on poverty
war on illiteracy
terror war
ForOurFreedom
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 9:27amWhy not talk about the real white elephant in the room? This is Ron Paul‘s platform and he’s been saying it for years. That possession of marijuana should not result in you being hauled into a prison system that is already bloated with non-violent criminals. That at the least, it should be a state issue and the federal govt. shouldn‘t be spending the billions annually that they are to fight a war that’s beginning to look awfully similar to the same war that raged on during prohibition. I don’t understand why the Blaze can post a story on it and everyone nods and mutters..“hhmmm”, “interesting!”. But when Dr. Paul suggests it they start screaming, “Run for the hills!”, “He’s nuts!”, “We’ll all be doing hard drugs if he gets his way!”. You could argue in that vein that we should all be drunks considering that alchohol is legal. I am begging you to do your own research and find out what he says about DECRIMINALIZING drugs. He doesn’t necessarily argue for legalizing them, but for decriminalizing the possession of them (definitely marijuana).
Report Post »Ya’ know, I grew up in a Christian school and was always taught that these things had to be regulated by the state, that we needed laws controlling at least marijuana, but I remember having a discussion with someone about how vicious the prohibition era was and it really opened my mind. It’s like Dr. Paul says, “Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies.”
americangriffin
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 10:01amonce again I don’t understand the disconnect with Glen and Ron Paul. Paul is the man we‘ve been waiting for and Glen can’t seem to put 2 and 2 together.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:06amHis domestic policy is right on…it’s his foreign policy that is absolutely NUTS!!! Mr. Paul would have been the death of Israel. That is the disconnect Glenn had with Ron Paul.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 12:10pmFavored, That is the media talking point to try and sway people against Paul. I can guarantee you that you do not understand his true foriegn policy standing. You just have small media soundbites and one minute answers from debates.
“We must only send our men and women to fight for our country when the mission is clear, every necessary tool needed to win is provided, and we respect the Constitution by declaring war.
Once war is declared, it must be waged according to Just War principles. We should only fight when it’s in our national security interest, and we should no longer do the corrupt United Nation’s bidding by policing the world.” – Ron Paul
Paul is not against war to protect our liberty, sovereignty, borders, helping allies or any other reason for going to war, as long as it is approved by the American people by Congress declaring the war. We should not be sending billions of dollars overseas, especially with the economic disaster we are facing, to protect other nations borders, we should be protecting our own.
Isreal has the fourth strongest military in the world, does not need our help and says the same. If they did ask for our help, we do it Constitutionally by having Congress debate the issue, ask the people, and declare war to help an ally. He would leave our Navy in place and it can handle anything that could happen until troops could be sent, if we even needed the troops.
Report Post »There is more, Research Paul with his own words, not the media’s.
SeanW
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 1:15pmThe disconnect comes because Beck is a rapturist. He believes that Israel needs to be given the entirety of the “holy land” so they can rebuild Solomon’s Temple which in turn, according to them, will summon Jesus Christ to descend from the heavens on his cloud and rapture them all. He and his believe that we must go to war for the sole purpose of committing genocide so that this glorious day can come.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 1:24pmis the ‘left behind’ end times scenario something mormons believe in?
I’ve never heard mormons discuss their interpretation of end times and I am intersted to know what they are. any volunteers?
Report Post »RoqueGerig
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 2:11pmi live in bolivia and chew coca leaf anytime, legally. dont care for pot and i dont do any other drugs besides my asthma medicine. i am as right wing conservative as anybody and even more so a fundamentalist christian and i don‘t see the sense in making any of god’s herbs illegal.
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 2:16pm@westcoast
Well put & well written.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 9:24amRead Catherine Austin Fitts editorial piece entitled “Narco Dollars for Dummies” and you‘ll understand completely why there is a ’War on Drugs’:
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How The Money Works In The Illicit Drug Trade
by Catherine Austin Fitts
http://www.scoop.co.nz/, February 2002
To understand the threat of decriminalization of the drug trade, just go back to your Sam and Dave estimate and recalculate the numbers given what decriminalization does to drive BIG PERCENT back to SLIM PERCENT and what that means to Wall Street and Washington’s cash flows. No narco dollars, no reinvestment into the stock markets, no campaign contributions.”
http://www.mydropintheocean.org/the-world/investigations/narco-dollars
The drug war keeps supply down and thins (via arrest, prison, death, etc.) the herd of competitors so that the remaining players can establish a monopoly over domestic U.S. markets.
With drug profits concentrated into only a few hands, then they have gigantic sums of money at their disposal. This of course becomes rather attractive to well-to-do financiers who are seeking large sums of capital to buy assets, securities, bonds, speculate in energy markets, etc….
In the end, the drug profits get ‘cleaned up’ overseas before being reinvested/recycled into Wall Street….which subsequently turns around and gives a cut to the politicians in Washington (via campaign contributions) to perpetuate this arrangement even further.
Report Post »Speaking-Monkey
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 9:00amLets not forget marijuana can be eaten and vaporized. Smoking anything is bad for you, that’s common sense. Notice most marijuana “science” is conducted with joints. This allows the paper the joint was rolled with to taint the results. On and on and on.
Report Post »Speaking-Monkey
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 8:58amFor some good irony, ask a christian anti-marijuana republican why God made pot and man made pharmaceuticals (the real drugs.) You never heard of a fatal marijuana overdose. Even drinking too much water can kill ya.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:20amI am a Christian anti pot guy but I think that pot is as bad as beer or cigarets. Jail time or even a fine I believe should never have been imposed on pot. On this issue I say let freedom ring! Hard drugs are different they bring problems that go beyond personal choices.
Report Post »Your statement about ‘God made it so it’s ok’ is a bogus one. God made many things that will hurt or kill you.
I do believe that drinking and smoking are not what the people of God should be doing … but Govt. should not be making my morale choices for me. Get the Govt. out of our lives!!!! They have Two jobs and that is to keep us free from invasion and free from the wrong end of my neighbor’s gun (ie actions that infringe on my freedom … real crime … ).
If it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg…..Make your choices and stand before God on them. Govt. is NOT God.
West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 12:20pmFavored, I can stand with you on that. If the government would just leave it to each individual state, we would be more free as if we did not like the laws of the state we are living in, we could always vote with our feet and find a state with laws more to our liking. That is a Reagan quip and it holds true. You do know that Reagan was a Libertarian at heart.
Report Post »Speaking-Monkey
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 8:48amCorruption that goes into why marijuana is illegal can’t be said within 1500 characters. There are many reasons marijuana is illegal, with the actual reasons rarely mentioned and unknown for most. Here are a few. Cash cow for cops, they are more interested and seizing property and cash. Marijuana is harmless and therefore very common, it allows law enforcment to unjustly search and seize property as it’s easy to find due to a strong smell and large quantity required to be effective. (in grams compared to harder drugs such as caffeine, cocaine and pharmaceuticals) It also aids in “weeding” out the disobedient allowing for many other charges/fines to be “enforced.” Enough on that. Pharmaceutical company see its medical properties as serious competion as it can be grown in large quantities for far cheaper. Enough on that. It’s great for the prison industry, the more charaters behind bars the larger the budget. After all, taxapayers always get to foot the bill. Incarceration is a multi-billion dollar industry. Think of all the companies that supply prisons that would go under. Enough on that. There’s plenty of corporate competition with the benefits from hemp. And so on. The stigma of marijuana as a drug is part of the lie told over ond over agian until it’s finally accepted. Sugar is more of a dangerous substance than marijuana. Just ask a doctor or nutritionist. However, most of your info on this “drug” will come form law enforcement or politicians. On and on and on
Report Post »cgnick
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:18pmVery, very well stated. You forgot to mention the forest products paper production industry and the synthetic textiles industry that helped rally against cannabis to make it illegal too. All these industries created the perfect political storm to out law a plant. Cannabis literally is a wonder crop. I guarantee our forefathers (most of which grew hemp) are rolling over in their graves over cannabis prohibition.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 8:14amThe ‘war on drugs’ has worked about as well as prohibition did,prohibition gave us Al Capone and a black market with all the violence that goes with it.Portugal decriminalized drugs and didn’t see an increase in users and the same would happen here with the added benefit of reduction in violence associated with the drug trade.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 7:58amBanning the supply does not eliminate the demand. All it does is force the user to go to criminals to buy the drugs, who have a vested interest in keeping the user addicted.
Report Post »kindsoul
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:06amMarijuana is about as addictive as pizza.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:26am@kindsoul
Report Post »…and smoking it will certainly help the pizza industry! lol
SeanW
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 1:21pm@kindsoul yes but legalization of Marijuana will sink the pharmaceutical industry. It was made illegal originally because Nylon cannot compete with Hemp in strength or in manufacturing costs. Now the same companies, like Dow Petrochem, work ceaselessly to flood the media with disinformation all for the protection of their profits at the cost of our health. Instead of a CBD tablet with ZERO side effects for pain they would rather force you to take chemically engineered heroine, plus the three pills that will counter act its side effects (one of which may cause sudden death) and a quick trip to the rehab center once you are done and need to get off their crap. Doctors once upon a time took an oath to do No Harm. Too bad their oaths now are to Pfizer, Dow, Bayer, Obama and anyone but the patient.
Report Post »supressorgrid
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 7:54amBanning and criminalizing things the people want solves nothing. Right now I bet some one is crossing the GW, sneeking into New York with a load of Crispy Creeme(sic) salt pork doughnuts.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 7:49amI am for the decriminalization of all forms of self-medication. Not just “schedule I” drugs, but if I feel that I can benefit from taking a regular dose of Warfarin, for example, if I’ve read up on Warfarin, if I’m educated about its effects, its side effects, then all the more role a doctor should have is in confirming that I’m making an INFORMED decision, not necessarily a WISE decision in his opinion, just that I’m an informed consumer of Warfarin, then I should be able to buy it OTC. Same goes for any drug, pharmceutical or recreational.
Report Post »PRESENTSOFMIND
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 7:04amThe prohibition of alcohol worked didn’t it? oops… no, so how anyone can claim that prohibiting any of the other drugs will work. The thing to do is legalize, regulate and tax all of it. Make people who want the hard stuff get it from a Dr., and leave the pot smokers alone like the alcohol drinkers. Some people will say “we will have high people crusing the streets”. Yes we will. We do now, so what’s the difference? There is never gonna be a drug free utopia, people who want it are gonna get it legal or not, so I say make it legal.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:32amI say keep DRUGS (the hard stuff) illegal but decriminalize personal possession in small amounts…we should legalize and tax pot though it is just like drinking IMO.
Report Post »BTW I do not smoke pot but think people who do should not be made criminals for it.
Mr.Fitnah
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 7:04amYears ago I calculated the GOV was spending 6 million $ an hour on the WODs, I don’t think they can afford to stop it now. Unemployment would go through the roof if we still had one.
Report Post »IPFW_11
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 5:46amYa we don‘t have enough DUI’s and DWI’s. What we need is to legalize other drugs so that more impaired drivers will get out there on the roads!!
Report Post »US_SOLDIER
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 7:07amYea because god forbid you be able to make a conscious decision about what does or does not go into your own body. Lets ban sodas next, caffeine is a drug and it makes people jittery sometimes. Then we will ban cigarettes, alcohol, chewing tobacco, tea, and keep going until every last human is 100% drug free. Meanwhile we will militarize the police and raid citizens homes (sometimes the wrong home) and terrorize them with SWAT teams and if a few hundred of those “drug users” get shot now and then just chalk it up to the War on Drugs! We can continue to dump billions into this war through militarization of the police, incarceration costs for those nasty criminals and an unsecured (and not intended to be secured) southern border where the majority of those nasty drugs come through! You my friend need to watch what you wish for. I myself do not use drugs but I stand for drug users freedoms for fear that when they are done with them they will come for mine next
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 11:40amI on occasion drink…I do not drive when I do….those who drink and drive KNOW what they are doing…If you are high and drive today with it being illegal what will happen? My beer is legal to have and drink but driving after doing so is what??? Illegal!!!!! Making pot legal will not affect our roads any more then it does now with it illegal.
Report Post »Those who smoke it now will smoke it then and those who don‘t won’t with it legal. Our prisons population will however dramatically shrink and lives will no longer be ruined over a puff at a party.
I am NOT a pot smoker BTW……
West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 12:29pmIPFW, If marijuana was legalized and you had two bars across the street from one another, one sold nothing but alcohol and the other sold nothing but marijuana. Which bar would have the police called to it more often for fights? I say the alcohol bar. Which bar would have more people leave at closing, drive down the road and injure or kill innocent people in auto accidents? I say the alcohol bar. The marijuana patrons would only be driving 5 miles per hour.
A little marijuana humor to lighten things up.
Report Post »IPFW_11
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 1:04pm@US_Soldier
If you think banning things that effect people other than just yourself is a bad thing than there is no hope for you.
Your rights only extend up until they start violating mine. The fact that I would have to share the road with more people who are intoxicated is not an appealing idea. You do not stand with “drug users freedom” you stand for innocent people being killed.
Report Post »Johnny Cocheroo
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 2:28pm@IPFW_11
I get your premise but I think you need to reduce it one step.
Alcohol consumption is legal because it doesn’t harm others- driving under the influence of alcohol is illegal (because it’s likely the user will get into an accident & harm others).
The same should apply to marijuana.
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 4:27pmIPFW, The world is not a safe place. I say we ban earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes and hurricanes (a little humor there). Laws do not make anyone safer. I believe that going back to a common law system, where there is no crime unless there is an offended party, would suffice in helping to curb what people do and protect individual liberty at the same time. If a person harms another person or property because of their actions, they have committed a crime. The crime is either under civil law (not intentional) or criminal (intentional and /or with malice). If you kill someone because of irresponsibility from impaired driving, you could face both. The answer is not to make more laws (we are lawed to death) but making the penalty for injury higher in order to make people think twice before doing the irresponsible acts through jail sentences or monetary settlements.
Laws take away freedom, but penalties deserved do not. Just my take.
Report Post »Naps
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 4:51amThe War on Drugs is an Absolute FAILURE! All it does is lock up American citizens,give em 3how hot’s and a kot. All at the expense of the American Taxpayer. It‘s also the reason the Cartel’s are as rich and powerful as they are. It’s all about supply n demand. The reason Drugs keep flowing into the U.S is because American’s love to do drugs. And im not talkin about the fiend’s you see lurking around your nearest overpopulated ghetto. Lawyers,athletes,doctors,hell im sure alot of politicians spend they‘re weekends rippin lines off strippers ass’. The sooner we as a country stop living in denial,the sooner we can start fixing this nation. Obama or Romney……Eeny Meeny Miney Mo. What’s the difference? Ron Paul all day Everyday! The Lobbyist’s,Banks,and Elite Leaders all hate him. I wonder why? WAKE UP America!
Report Post »godflesh
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 4:41amThis sounds like a states rights issue to me. Matters of possession, manufacture, transport and sales should all be handled at the state and local level. Had the feds never got involved this probably wouldn’t be near the problem it has become.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 4:27amI was not aware the U.S. had a War on Drugs ! I have not seen any drug policy with the exception of making sure the youth and the OWS have as much as they need. obama’s dream of “The Americas”..Columbia…Mexico…U.S. as one nation without borders will depend on drug money…drugs will become a government controlled commodity.
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 10:11pmHemp should be a massive national security effort for OIL fabric and paper.
Report Post »Pot heroin and what not including antibiotics over the counter like booze.
I need to spend 2 weeks fing about with a DR to get Amox for an annual nasal infection ?
West Coast Patriot
Posted on April 13, 2012 at 12:49pmMr. Fitnah, I do not agree on the antibiotics over the counter. There is now a drug resistant TB that some are blaming on India for its practice of over the counter antibiotics. Too many people take antibiotics until they feel better, then either choose to or just forget to continue the antibiotics until they are gone. This helps to create the drug resistant bacterias which could be our demise at some point in time. Just a thought.
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Posted on April 12, 2012 at 9:27pmI agree w/ Buck and that the U.S. should decriminalize softer drugs such marijuana.
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