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Legalise drugs

The drug laws are madness. Drug abuse is so widespread, it's like trying to ban the law of supply and demand. Legalise the filthy stuff and tax it. If retards want to shove it up their noses, let them- they can drink petrol and eat their own shit as far as I'm concerned.

And in the meantime, organised crime would see its coffers dry up and the taxpayer would save a packet on the law enforcement/incarceration bill. (Just imagine the dent plod could put in other sorts of crime if they no longer squandered resouces on the 'war on drugs'.)

For sure, it wouldn't be ideal. It'd send a rotten message to kids and the moronic fashion for ingesting poisons would probably get a boost. And I shudder at the thought of amoral hedonists and evil gangsters being the ones responsible for such a seismic shift in how we order our societies. But sometimes you just have to be practical- organised crime is devastating the developing world (and not doing our inner cities much good either) and it urgently needs to be deprived of its trillion dollar warchest.

By kalder on Mar 2, 2009, 12:29 in Off Topic.

kalder says on Mar 2, 2009, 12:33:

But kids- until it is legalised, just say no.

"A piece of cheese may entrap a mouse, but a bicycle could ensnare the Imperial Chancellor."~~An Bai Kuang

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dwmte7 says on Mar 2, 2009, 14:02:

in the late 80's, i think it was dan rather who was on tv in colombia doing a story on the coke trail from bolivia to colombia. he was interviewing some capo in medellin on tv from behind, and the capo commented to day, en re nancy reagan's drug work with youth...."how do you just say 'no' to a hundred billion dollars"

the dealers/growers/shippers themselves are the ones who lobby to keep it illegal. it's in their interest. it's like the status quo in our beloved colombia...those who enjoy it ain't gonna give it up easily. so don't look forward to the legalized tax days anytime soon. it's really hard to just say no to that kind of money.

back in my early days,late 80's early 90's...my wife used to say....'llook how hard you work for money. all that you do and all that you put up with. then look at the capos who don't do shit and make millions of dollars.' she's right. i worked my ass off and went through hell manufacturing and exporting out of colombia. and some folks i knew in poblad and up in the country who were in the other business, didn't do a fricken thing and raked in loads of dough.

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patriarch

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dwmte7 says on Mar 2, 2009, 15:54:

poit well taken plan b. the fact that we're warehousing 10's of thousands of petty criminals for nothing more than slinging some rock or some pot is nonsense and really costly.

patriarch

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Lcacique says on Mar 2, 2009, 20:05:

yep...there is no room for the real criminals.

"Es fácil vivir con los ojos cerrados interpretando todo lo que se ve mal..." ~ J. Lennon

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goin_south says on Mar 2, 2009, 22:50:

there is 'room in the white house' ... for the real criminals

nothin I say is to be takn for my words, but rather for the words of Sailor Jerry.

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manINred says on Mar 3, 2009, 06:51:

"The drug laws are madness. Drug abuse is so widespread, it's like trying to ban the law of supply and demand. Legalise the filthy stuff and tax it. If retards want to shove it up their noses, let them- they can drink petrol and eat their own shit as far as I'm concerned."

EXACTLY! It is that law of supply and demand that funds the FARC and various other murdering and morally-decrepid enterprises such as the paramilitaries of Colombia or drug cartels of Mexico. You can't win when it comes to human greed, so take that particular capacity for exploitation out of criminal hands.

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