chugs
Bluelighter
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Like the LGBT movement we really need to get out there.
Come on guys and gals we need to start getting into public media and start explaining why drug legalisation is necessary. Right now SMH have open comments about ice addictions and the terrible tales of teenage prostitutes.
Now I know we don't agree on what legalisation looks like but here is my vision and some talking points that I'm more then happy for you to steal/borrow/use:
So don't forget to go to SMH and any other forum and push hard for legalisation. I dare say we need a Mardi Gras for drugs. We need to get out and fight the riot police/society and show that we deserve the right to use drugs.
We have to put on the line our jobs, our families and lives to show the world that drugs aren't about getting high! Its about saving tens
Come on guys and gals we need to start getting into public media and start explaining why drug legalisation is necessary. Right now SMH have open comments about ice addictions and the terrible tales of teenage prostitutes.
Now I know we don't agree on what legalisation looks like but here is my vision and some talking points that I'm more then happy for you to steal/borrow/use:
How
- public clinics (approx $500m a year) that are significantly staffed with medical specalists offering medical, drug education and counselling services.
- government manufactured and distributed drugs via these clinics. At no time should any private commercial enterprise be involved. Absolutely no profit in drugs. The bare min cost of the drugs is charged to the user. Approx $10-20 per gram of opiate for example/
- Users present to a drug specalist who examines them for any obvious medical condition. People with bad hearts will not be prescribed cocaine for example though if you pass you will be given a script.
- highly functional users who can prove they have stable housing and employment, who have no criminal-law matters, who have secure facilities will be allowed, after being submitted to various medical and educational services, to take home small amounts of various drugs.
- cannabis non-for profit co-ops that donate excess profits to various government approved NGO charities will be allowed to operate cannabis smoking clubs. Highly regulated in who and when you can smoke but will be allowed to offer a wide range of cannabis products (see the US
model).
- dysfunctional users with unstable housing, unemployed and with mental and physical health issues will be required to dose initally at the clinics. As milestones and stability reached dosing restrictions unrestricted.
- massive harm miminisation and drug education program for under 18 year olds.
- significant research into the glial activated withdrawal affect that causes the physical discomfort that we call opiate/meth/cocaine withdrawals. We need to be able to identify young people who have been, due to
stress in early childhood, predisposed to experience painful withdrawals from drugs.
- early intervention services. Right now anyone can have a baby and the best you get is a mid-wife a few weeks after the birth. Dysfunctional peopple who have children, who have a history of abuse, unemployed, violent and so on should be have almost daily intervention services.
- public clinics (approx $500m a year) that are significantly staffed with medical specalists offering medical, drug education and counselling services.
- government manufactured and distributed drugs via these clinics. At no time should any private commercial enterprise be involved. Absolutely no profit in drugs. The bare min cost of the drugs is charged to the user. Approx $10-20 per gram of opiate for example/
- Users present to a drug specalist who examines them for any obvious medical condition. People with bad hearts will not be prescribed cocaine for example though if you pass you will be given a script.
- highly functional users who can prove they have stable housing and employment, who have no criminal-law matters, who have secure facilities will be allowed, after being submitted to various medical and educational services, to take home small amounts of various drugs.
- cannabis non-for profit co-ops that donate excess profits to various government approved NGO charities will be allowed to operate cannabis smoking clubs. Highly regulated in who and when you can smoke but will be allowed to offer a wide range of cannabis products (see the US
model).
- dysfunctional users with unstable housing, unemployed and with mental and physical health issues will be required to dose initally at the clinics. As milestones and stability reached dosing restrictions unrestricted.
- massive harm miminisation and drug education program for under 18 year olds.
- significant research into the glial activated withdrawal affect that causes the physical discomfort that we call opiate/meth/cocaine withdrawals. We need to be able to identify young people who have been, due to
stress in early childhood, predisposed to experience painful withdrawals from drugs.
- early intervention services. Right now anyone can have a baby and the best you get is a mid-wife a few weeks after the birth. Dysfunctional peopple who have children, who have a history of abuse, unemployed, violent and so on should be have almost daily intervention services.
Benefits
- right now (i calculated this manually using state government budget documents) the state and federal law enforcement agencies in FY14 spent approx $17 billion. Approx 70% of that was on the enforcement of drug laws. Add in prisons, customs, and the money wasted on lawyers (defence and prosecutions, judges and other associated costs we're talking about an annual sum of approx $25 billion wasted on the drug war in direct costs.
- Over $20 billion per annum is leaving the country (ACC crime report). This money despite unlimited powers and funding for the police is going to the Mafia, Cartels, Taliban and others.
- We would save hundreds of lives from overdose, and tens of thousands of people who suffer substantial damage in their overdose. Medical costs and the lost productivity due to drug use is estimated to be in the billions.
- There would be a collapse in property and personal theft in Australia. The Methadone/Bupe program alone was recently estimated to have saved billions in theft. That for one drug alone.
- saving the lives of tens thousands across the planet who are dying in drug related wars and trafficking violence. (this alone should be enough of a reason to end the drug war)
- substantially disrupt and even destroy evil despotic criminal organisations
- show the police that the years of leaching parasitically off the public are over. These failures, disgusting leaches, inefficaciousness corrupt losers - who with unlimited funds and powers have utterly failed to stop drugs. Day in day out they arrest people in a revolving door of hate. They go into prisons drug users come out drug users and stay drug users no matter what these jack-booted scum do.
- Improve the quality of living for hundreds of thousands of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Imagine the kids you see in liverpool plaza with their "junky" parents finally getting access to DOCS services. Properly funded department that could intervene with the current at risks and stop the next generation from being abused!
In summary: We are talking about a sum that would equal approx $50 billion in direct amounts and about $10 - 20 billion with indirect amounts - PER YEAR. This represents about 5% of our GDP if not more. (approx three times our defence budget).
- right now (i calculated this manually using state government budget documents) the state and federal law enforcement agencies in FY14 spent approx $17 billion. Approx 70% of that was on the enforcement of drug laws. Add in prisons, customs, and the money wasted on lawyers (defence and prosecutions, judges and other associated costs we're talking about an annual sum of approx $25 billion wasted on the drug war in direct costs.
- Over $20 billion per annum is leaving the country (ACC crime report). This money despite unlimited powers and funding for the police is going to the Mafia, Cartels, Taliban and others.
- We would save hundreds of lives from overdose, and tens of thousands of people who suffer substantial damage in their overdose. Medical costs and the lost productivity due to drug use is estimated to be in the billions.
- There would be a collapse in property and personal theft in Australia. The Methadone/Bupe program alone was recently estimated to have saved billions in theft. That for one drug alone.
- saving the lives of tens thousands across the planet who are dying in drug related wars and trafficking violence. (this alone should be enough of a reason to end the drug war)
- substantially disrupt and even destroy evil despotic criminal organisations
- show the police that the years of leaching parasitically off the public are over. These failures, disgusting leaches, inefficaciousness corrupt losers - who with unlimited funds and powers have utterly failed to stop drugs. Day in day out they arrest people in a revolving door of hate. They go into prisons drug users come out drug users and stay drug users no matter what these jack-booted scum do.
- Improve the quality of living for hundreds of thousands of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Imagine the kids you see in liverpool plaza with their "junky" parents finally getting access to DOCS services. Properly funded department that could intervene with the current at risks and stop the next generation from being abused!
In summary: We are talking about a sum that would equal approx $50 billion in direct amounts and about $10 - 20 billion with indirect amounts - PER YEAR. This represents about 5% of our GDP if not more. (approx three times our defence budget).
Misc.
- with the massive savings we could finally fund public dental. a big problem with a significant relationships with opiate drug abuse.
- we could finally fund our medical system properly (though I would tell the AMA and specialists colleges/associations that they would would need to reduce entrance requirements by over 15%). Doctors complain about massive case load but are more then happy to pocket the salaries that the limited supply of specialists/practitioners results in.
- over 40,000 people got diagnosed with cancer. Most of them for several years would have been feed a non-stop diet of opiate based painkillers. This is causing heroin to come back in a big way across the western world as cancer survivors have no specialists care to get over their addictions. With funded clinics they could get opiates, synthetic or otherwise to help them through their addiction, along with the necessary medical
- we could finally fund our medical system properly (though I would tell the AMA and specialists colleges/associations that they would would need to reduce entrance requirements by over 15%). Doctors complain about massive case load but are more then happy to pocket the salaries that the limited supply of specialists/practitioners results in.
- over 40,000 people got diagnosed with cancer. Most of them for several years would have been feed a non-stop diet of opiate based painkillers. This is causing heroin to come back in a big way across the western world as cancer survivors have no specialists care to get over their addictions. With funded clinics they could get opiates, synthetic or otherwise to help them through their addiction, along with the necessary medical
So don't forget to go to SMH and any other forum and push hard for legalisation. I dare say we need a Mardi Gras for drugs. We need to get out and fight the riot police/society and show that we deserve the right to use drugs.
We have to put on the line our jobs, our families and lives to show the world that drugs aren't about getting high! Its about saving tens