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Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition?
gplus writes "December 5th was the 75th anniversary of the end of alcohol prohibition in the US. The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed which argues that now may be the time to discuss our war on drugs and the drug prohibition currently in place. The article argues that the harm caused by the banned substance must be balanced against the harms caused by the prohibition. As to why Americans in 1933 finally voted to end prohibition, while we barely even discuss it: 'Most Americans in 1933 could recall a time before prohibition, which tempered their fears. But few Americans now can recall the decades when the illicit drugs of today were sold and consumed legally. If they could, a post-prohibition future might prove less alarming.'"
SMOKE
Let's just bring back alcohol prohibition.
Don't you know that drugs fund terrorism? That every puff of weed kills 5 innocent victims? And I'm talking about the white ones, not those scary looking foreign victims from the middle east.
I mean, just look at this government ad! How do argue with logic like "It's a fact because it's true"?
Suck on that, dope fiends!
I came here for a good argument
Wait, what about my $200?
Did alright!? They lost nearly the entire continent! Sure go smoke yourself silly, just don't complain when the non-smoking aliens take over earth. Who knows maybe they'll let us run casinos?
Exactly. No better way to punish criminals than forcing them to deal with the bureaucracy. :3
I think that the worst that's ever happened to my pot-smoking friends is that they got very baked one day, and ran down to the 7-11 to buy taquitos. That's stimulating the economy. How can you possibly think that's bad?
You didn't pass any "go"....
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
If we grew the plants cocoa and marijuana in our own country
... we'd have all the makings of some killer chocolate brownies dude!
Exactly! Plus, if everyone is smoking weed, then the bacteria will be too lazy to mutate and just veg out.
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
Unregulated drugs will destabilize families more. Money will need to be spent to deal with the aftermath--the damaged children.
Unregulated drugs will make the highways more dangerous. Money will be needed for enforcement and treatment.
Unregulated drugs will increase the need for social welfare programs to deal with the extra detritus.
A doped society will weaken the United States. Deregulation need not increase the 'doped' population, but we must be prepared to help the people who will be harmed by deregulation.
I'd favor decriminalization if people would pay for cleaning up the aftermath. But people won't pay.
I see Taco Bell becoming the biggest company in the United States if Marijuana is legalized. Maybe Demolition Man had the future half right.
It's such a bad move, in fact, that even considering it constitutes a "Sin tax error"
(Wow. I actually heard the groans through the internet!)