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Prohibition: Effective or not?
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Legalization and Harm Reduction is desperately needed in our society. Arresting our way out of this "issue" is the real problem, no one will be left in society...wha'ts next death row for drinking coffee, eating sugar or having sex? After all the "addiction" for these acts can be just as deadly if they produce more commercials hyping it up to be so. I'm still waiting for proof on how steel bars around a human being cures any disease, especially addiction. It merely pads the fat cats profiting off the backs of those who happen to get "caught" using substances. Absolutely absurd.
2. I don't believe that any change will be made to any drug laws except for the worse any time soon.With that thought in mind I am making arrangements to pursue employment where there seems to be less urgency to follow the US policy down the drain.
3. I like bongs!
4. Not everyone who takes drugs are drug addicts, I smoke marijuana for one reason, that is for pain relief. I would love for marijuana to be accessable to people like me who really are in pain just so that I didnt have to feel like a criminal every time I needed pain relief.
5. jackacole: It gives me hope that folks in your former line of work believe as you do. I wish I met more cops that shared your mentality. A shame that you are retired but I commend you on your intelligence and for doing the work that you do. Seriously, I cried a little in joy when I read your comments here.
6. its about time this argument got out of the doping community and into the mainstream.
7. I am not a drug user or some left wing liberal nut, but I am a realist that can see that the way our society is handling the drug trade and its use in not working. If we could enact some law or wave a magic wand to stop illegal use and the illegal drug trade, I would say do it....but we all know that neither one of those will work. The mass majority of people that are in prison right now with regards to illegal drugs did not get high and then commit crimes, they did crimes so they can get high!
8. I am not advocating that drugs be legal to sale on the street but that they be sold or even given away in a controlled way in government "drug" stores. Drug users could be issued a special I.D. that would allocate a certain amount of drugs to them each day. To qualify for this program a person would also need to be simultaneously enrolled in a drug rehabilitation program. The whole point behind my idea is to make drugs worthless and de-criminalize them and then help people get off drugs altogether.
9. I have never known anyone not do drugs just because it was against the law. Drugs are just like any other commodity that is in demand and you can make another million anti drug laws to ad to the million that are in place now and it will have no effect on the demand for drugs. Drug dealers are very glad that drugs are illegal because if they were legal it would put all of them out of business. Also, all of the other violence associated with the drug trade, such as gang violence, would disappear overnight.
10. As a retired police lieutenant, with 14 years experience as an undercover narcotics officer and now the director of Law enforcement against Prohibition problem a 10,000 member nonprofit organization created and run by police judges and prosecutors, I want to congratulate Malakkar Vohryzek on his superb analysis of the failed war on drugs . As former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper points out, "The drug war has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery."
Submitted by: RBAYGIRL FROM TX
2. I don't believe that any change will be made to any drug laws except for the worse any time soon.With that thought in mind I am making arrangements to pursue employment where there seems to be less urgency to follow the US policy down the drain.
Submitted by: gary Hild
3. I like bongs!
Submitted by: Pot Head
4. Not everyone who takes drugs are drug addicts, I smoke marijuana for one reason, that is for pain relief. I would love for marijuana to be accessable to people like me who really are in pain just so that I didnt have to feel like a criminal every time I needed pain relief.
Submitted by: Craig from Australia
5. jackacole: It gives me hope that folks in your former line of work believe as you do. I wish I met more cops that shared your mentality. A shame that you are retired but I commend you on your intelligence and for doing the work that you do. Seriously, I cried a little in joy when I read your comments here.
Submitted by: mouse
6. its about time this argument got out of the doping community and into the mainstream.
Submitted by: David
7. I am not a drug user or some left wing liberal nut, but I am a realist that can see that the way our society is handling the drug trade and its use in not working. If we could enact some law or wave a magic wand to stop illegal use and the illegal drug trade, I would say do it....but we all know that neither one of those will work. The mass majority of people that are in prison right now with regards to illegal drugs did not get high and then commit crimes, they did crimes so they can get high!
Submitted by: Mark
8. I am not advocating that drugs be legal to sale on the street but that they be sold or even given away in a controlled way in government "drug" stores. Drug users could be issued a special I.D. that would allocate a certain amount of drugs to them each day. To qualify for this program a person would also need to be simultaneously enrolled in a drug rehabilitation program. The whole point behind my idea is to make drugs worthless and de-criminalize them and then help people get off drugs altogether.
Submitted by: Mark
9. I have never known anyone not do drugs just because it was against the law. Drugs are just like any other commodity that is in demand and you can make another million anti drug laws to ad to the million that are in place now and it will have no effect on the demand for drugs. Drug dealers are very glad that drugs are illegal because if they were legal it would put all of them out of business. Also, all of the other violence associated with the drug trade, such as gang violence, would disappear overnight.
Submitted by: Mark
10. As a retired police lieutenant, with 14 years experience as an undercover narcotics officer and now the director of Law enforcement against Prohibition problem a 10,000 member nonprofit organization created and run by police judges and prosecutors, I want to congratulate Malakkar Vohryzek on his superb analysis of the failed war on drugs . As former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper points out, "The drug war has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional social policy since slavery."
Submitted by: jackacole@leap.cc
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