I dream of a day where all drugs are legalized. I take any opportunity I can to make the argument that even drugs like heroin should be legalized. The prohibition of heroin and all drugs does nothing to stem the use and abuse of these substances, but instead causes there to be huge problems like violent crime, stigmatization of users and spread of infectious diseases like Hepatitis and HIV.
The only way to rid the world of DTOs is to get rid of the income source, which are illicit drugs. Legitimize the manufacture of these drugs and regulate their sale and you have a much safer way of doing things.
My only issue with legalization is pricing. It could be argued that if prices for a particular drug were to drop that you might entice more people to use it. As much as I'd love an infinite and cheap source of heroin, I'm not sure that is the best way to go about things. Keeping the prices the same as they are now on the street via taxes might be the best way to do things. Although then you may not resolve the issues of people committing thefts and robberies to obtain the drug, but at least then you've eliminated most of the violent crime related to the sale of the drug.
Well, keep in mind the US has ALOT of for profit prisons, they have to make sure as many cells are occupied as often as possible, so they have to create and aggressively enforce certain laws that they feel enough people will have problems abiding by..drug laws were right up their alley in this regard!
If you look at the history of drug laws, they were actually created and enacted to keep certain groups of people out of certain parts of town,namely the Chinese and their opium dens...but today drug laws are just out of control and I think only being enforced as aggessively as they are, to keep prison cells full to capacity and keep the money rolling in.
Same thing was done with traffic violations, they have to create and enforce certain types of laws they feel a large percentage of people will violate, and of course this equals alot of money coming in from the fines...in many states, cities, they RELY on this money for their budget...but funny thing is, the laws have not worked over the years, people still violate these traffic laws, so why would the Govt still keep the same exact laws in place if they have never resolved the actual problem...the literal definition of the word insanity is to continue to do the same thing over and over but expect a different result.
But with drug laws, they are constantly changing and making new laws, why would they not do the same thing with traffic laws? and/or why would they constantly change and alter certain laws, but let others stay the same for decades when they arent effective???? LOL
IMO, the purpose of laws should be to solve problems, not to ensure money keeps rolling in...if traffic laws have not reduced the number of offenders over a certain number of years..well, its time to try something else, but those in power dont seem to see it that way, they prefer to keep the same uneffective laws in place SOLELY so the revenue stream doesnt stop...this is sooo fucking wrong!!
they are definitely not doing it for the health and safety of the public...if this were true, they would have laws against all tobacco, all alcohol, and many other substances...and even those have large "SIN" taxes on them...I just cant figure out why the Govt does not legalize and place sin taxes on these drugs...but Im assuming they are probably making more money off drugs being illegal.
I truly believe the US Govt is somehow involved in the drug trade, not sure how, but Id bet my paycheck they are making $$ off it (besides the for profit prison system too)...I mean, how else could literal TONS upon TONS of many kinds of illegal drugs make it into this country every single day of every single year? LOL
I think if we knew the truth about all this, our jaws would probably hit the floor!