another war we aren't winning
we have been fucking around in columbia now for a couple of decades supposedly trying to stop cocaine trafficing but cocaine shipments continue to grow and expand with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars of profits going into someone's pocket. at the same time we are engaged in afghanastan and, all of a sudden, heroin is plentiful again with 90% of the world's supply coming from that hell hole of a country. pure coincidence i am sure.
one of these days we are going to find out just how extensive our military operations in south america really are. the three american "contractors" who were rescued the other day are cia or black ops military.
the "war on drugs" is another war we are not winning. we have spent over, are you ready, 4 TRILLION dollars on the war on drugs. that is a lot of fucking money, brothers and sisters, and that money would be very nice to have to spend here in america on, say, road work or building schools or any number of other projects to help the american populace. i can go, you can go, anyone can go into ANY city in america and get ANY kind of drug within a matter of hours. you know that to be true. (if you don't, ask any cop) how can it be we have spent all that money, locked up all those people, gone into all those countries and drugs are more available, more common and more affordable than ever before? maybe we weren't really trying to stop the drug flow. maybe it is just another sham to get our military into another foriegn country.
the obvious answer to the so-called "drug problem" is to legalize all drugs and offer treatment to the ones who become "addicted." we do that with alcohol, one of the most dangerous drugs of all time. what someone does to their own body and in their own home should be nobody's business but their own. we allow people to drink themselves to death, we allow them to smoke cigarettes to kill themselves and both of those are drugs. the savings to the nation would be enormous. cops could then go after the really dangerous felons, the robbers, the killers, the car-jackers, the rapists and stop worrying about whether joe there has some weed in his car.
well, what about all the killings and shootings going on over drugs? those are related to DRUG SELLING not DRUG USING. the profits from illegal drugs are basically the only thriving business in our slums. by getting rid of the illegality of drugs and dispensing them from, are you ready?, DRUG stores you then free up millions of dollars that could be used for job creation and job traing in the intercities.
ron paul had as part of his platform this very idea and no one would argue it with him because all the facts were on his side.
sure, some drugs are very dangerous, but so are alcohol and cigarettes. speed is very dangerous but most people figure that out for themselves...the old sixties saying, "speed kills" is still viable. the scare tactics used by our drug enforcement people fall on deaf ears because the people who are using the drugs know fact from fiction when it comes to drugs. crack is not immediately addictive as you have been told. it is just cocaine but in a smokable form. it is a quick high and it is cheap which is why it is popular in the slums. for ten bucks you can get a 15 minute reprieve from the misery of your daily life.
being from the sixties and a rebel at heart, i have, over the years, used almost every kind of illegal drug and now i use none at all other than an occasional toke of marijuana. why? not because of illegality but because they didn't do anything for me after a while. never was big on coke or speed, hell, i am pretty much "up" most of the time anyway. heroin was never attractive because i didn't want to spend all day in a stupor.
if everyone was really honest, i bet we would find that a majority, or close to one, of adults have, at some time or another, used some kind or another of illegal drugs. hardly any became addicts.
we have more people locked up than any other country in the world and a good number of them are in for drug related offenses. think of all that money it takes to keep all those people locked up. hell, give them a job, send them to school, make them productive citizens, it would cost a lot less right now and would reap benefits for decades to come.
on to other things: i am doing next week as well here in hilton head since the act coming in is caught up in some legal hassles in california over a home he owns. so, here is hoping we have some big crowds this week. i will be back in vegas to start at the trop on the 14th.
one of these days we are going to find out just how extensive our military operations in south america really are. the three american "contractors" who were rescued the other day are cia or black ops military.
the "war on drugs" is another war we are not winning. we have spent over, are you ready, 4 TRILLION dollars on the war on drugs. that is a lot of fucking money, brothers and sisters, and that money would be very nice to have to spend here in america on, say, road work or building schools or any number of other projects to help the american populace. i can go, you can go, anyone can go into ANY city in america and get ANY kind of drug within a matter of hours. you know that to be true. (if you don't, ask any cop) how can it be we have spent all that money, locked up all those people, gone into all those countries and drugs are more available, more common and more affordable than ever before? maybe we weren't really trying to stop the drug flow. maybe it is just another sham to get our military into another foriegn country.
the obvious answer to the so-called "drug problem" is to legalize all drugs and offer treatment to the ones who become "addicted." we do that with alcohol, one of the most dangerous drugs of all time. what someone does to their own body and in their own home should be nobody's business but their own. we allow people to drink themselves to death, we allow them to smoke cigarettes to kill themselves and both of those are drugs. the savings to the nation would be enormous. cops could then go after the really dangerous felons, the robbers, the killers, the car-jackers, the rapists and stop worrying about whether joe there has some weed in his car.
well, what about all the killings and shootings going on over drugs? those are related to DRUG SELLING not DRUG USING. the profits from illegal drugs are basically the only thriving business in our slums. by getting rid of the illegality of drugs and dispensing them from, are you ready?, DRUG stores you then free up millions of dollars that could be used for job creation and job traing in the intercities.
ron paul had as part of his platform this very idea and no one would argue it with him because all the facts were on his side.
sure, some drugs are very dangerous, but so are alcohol and cigarettes. speed is very dangerous but most people figure that out for themselves...the old sixties saying, "speed kills" is still viable. the scare tactics used by our drug enforcement people fall on deaf ears because the people who are using the drugs know fact from fiction when it comes to drugs. crack is not immediately addictive as you have been told. it is just cocaine but in a smokable form. it is a quick high and it is cheap which is why it is popular in the slums. for ten bucks you can get a 15 minute reprieve from the misery of your daily life.
being from the sixties and a rebel at heart, i have, over the years, used almost every kind of illegal drug and now i use none at all other than an occasional toke of marijuana. why? not because of illegality but because they didn't do anything for me after a while. never was big on coke or speed, hell, i am pretty much "up" most of the time anyway. heroin was never attractive because i didn't want to spend all day in a stupor.
if everyone was really honest, i bet we would find that a majority, or close to one, of adults have, at some time or another, used some kind or another of illegal drugs. hardly any became addicts.
we have more people locked up than any other country in the world and a good number of them are in for drug related offenses. think of all that money it takes to keep all those people locked up. hell, give them a job, send them to school, make them productive citizens, it would cost a lot less right now and would reap benefits for decades to come.
on to other things: i am doing next week as well here in hilton head since the act coming in is caught up in some legal hassles in california over a home he owns. so, here is hoping we have some big crowds this week. i will be back in vegas to start at the trop on the 14th.
posted by Ron Shock | 8:13 AM
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The longer someone waits to start smoking, the less likely that they will continue and the more likely that they will quit. I believe this is true for almost all potentially addictive substances.
When I was in small-town school from 7th grade on, it was easier to get pot and pills than beer and liquor. If drugs were legal for adults, with penalties for selling to kids, kids would have a much harder time getting drugs.
The net result of legalization would be that pot use would go up a bit, other drug use might go up slightly short-term, but down long-term. There are very few people who are clean now that would start if drugs are legalized.
I shouldn't have to stand in line and fill out paperwork to buy Pseudoephedrin. I shouldn't be at risk of a no-knock warrant because drug dealers flush. I'd much rather drug profits go to support Walmart than domestic criminals and foreign terrorists.
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