I'd like to announce that I am officially declaring the War on Drugs: OVER.
Well what were you waiting for? Also, I think you'll need the approval Congress, Mr. President. I think it's going to take a restructuring of the Department of Justice. DEA needs to be broken into three or four different entities that each function to transition the country out of this crippling paradigm of the so-called Drug War.
And there are two kinds of Special Agents who work for the DEA. There are the ones who really believe in what they're doing and delude themselves into thinking they're making a difference in fighting "crime". Then there are the opportunist criminal motherfuckers like the two jackass agents on the Silk Road case who wound up indicted and serving federal time after getting caught squirreling away millions in Bitcoin. Both types = pieces of shit.
At any police station there's a gym, showers and a locker room. All of the lockers in the locker room have locks on them, despite the fact that they're only used by cops.
New War needs to get brainstormed and released soon. What non descriptive and vague concept are we shooting at next?
No, any modern, developed, and civilized country should not declare war against its own people, especially when such a war leads to record-breaking, hyper-incarceration like we see in the U.S. w/ over 2 million people behind bars, which is more people per capita and more people overall despite being a distant third in terms of global population. Let us stop declaring war for a change and stop incarcerating everyone in the world. We should be striving for compassion, civility, and decriminalizing non-victim-bearing so-called "crimes". As of 2017, there were 4,650 special agents employed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
– Voltaire
"The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which a person can be proud."
–Arthur Schopenhauer
I dont believe in licenses! I had drive license when I was 18 and know Im 45.
Well there are pros and cons to licensing, and there's a difference between professional licenses and operational licenses. Sure, driver's licenses are an excuse to collect extra taxes. And ordinarily I would agree with you, but I think if we're gonna let teenagers drive on the road with adults, the license is not a bad idea just to set the standard and the expectations society has of its drivers. Germany takes that shit hella seriously, for example, but they have very low rates of automobile accidents plus the Autobahn for chrissakes.
Then there are professional licenses, especially ones that pertain to healthcare standards like for doctors and nurses. Do you care if your doctor has a license to practice medicine? I do, and I'm probably not alone. For that matter, do you care if the pilot of your plane has a pilot's license? Maybe it's just me, but I'm okay with the licensing program here.
Otherwise I agree that many licensing programs are unnecessary and self-serving for those enforcing them. I hate brokers, real estate middlemen,
Do you think I remember any driving rule??
Of course you do. You probably remember most of them and could pass a multiple choice DMV exam right now. It isn't like you come up to a red light or a yield sign and just draw a blank.
I learned driving by myself when I was 14 and its a common sense thing.
Common sense is not as common as you think, and some people – obviously not you and I, but we're not everyone – need to be told what the rules are, and for legal reasons, this removes any excuse a person may try to make for poor driving. Moreover, driving is not the same thing as taking psychotropic substances. I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to intuit nuanced pharmacodynamics, and clearly people do not understand the connection between drug dependency, tolerance, compulsive behavior patterns, self-medicating, and the legal ramifications of all the above.
In other words, that's nice that you know how to drive and have a natural instinct for it. However, certain states I've been through seem to be filled with drivers who are, less gifted, shall we say?
A psychotropic drug license would be one to ensure user safety. In a similar manner, I'm ok with concealed weapons permits, too, and think any gun owner should be capable of demonstrating they know how to wield a firearm safely before they're allowed to purchase and walk around packing heat. It won't end drug abuse, but it may bring down the stats to a more manageable level for society. That's the goal, anyway, the way I see it.