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Some Thoughts About the "War-on-Drugs"

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> Our Freedom was created by those with the courage to dissent, to rebel, to act as individuals... Not a single one of our Freedom's was won by conforming to the will of the majority or by loyalty to the state!
Every Freedom we have - Religious Freedom, Political Freedom, the Freedom to Speak, Write & Assemble - was a Freedom won by a solitary person or by small groups who risked their own comfort & in some cases their lives to oppose the majority when they felt the majority to be wrong, or to oppose the state when they felt the state to be wrong.

> Those of us today who oppose the "War-on-Drugs" will be called "traitors" by some & misguided by many others.
Yet I hope that some small part of what motivates us may be communicated to our fellow citizens... the "silent majority" who, as usual are immersed in the business of day to day living while the more vociferous fringe elements argue & shape collective destiny.

> the United States Government has No Right to put people in jail unless they physically harm the person or property of another, the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights prohibit it! ( if your a citizen of another country, this still applies, since it is likely your country is a signatory of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. )

> If we let anyone lose their freedom without just cause, we have all lost our Freedom!

> As an American Citizen, I have no choice but to express my opposition to our government, when it violates the values of compassion & decency by a Barbaric campaign against it's own population! If I failed to voice my opposition, then I should fail my duty as a citizen!

> As a child in church and school I was taught that deceit & lying is wrong, that torture and violence is wrong, that unwarranted aggression is wrong. I believe what I was taught.
I believe that I learned values that have merit and by which I seek to live - I believe these values are valid for all times & places!

> What can I do about a government that engages in deceit & lying, that is proud of it's violence, that condones torture & is without remorse for it's aggression against it's own citizens?

> All societies must have laws of orderly rules & regulations, only the most hard-core radical Anarchist would argue that point, But I, as a responsible Adult Human Being will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or were I go with my mind!

> the intemperate panic fueling anti-drug legislation reveals an appalling irrationality... Armed Robbers, Murderers & Violent Child-Rapists receive lighter prison sentences than people captured with "unauthorized" plants or pills or powders in their possession!
( Washington & Jefferson Grew "hemp"! )

> Those who demand & enforce these laws have lost all humane perspective & by opposing this injustice I am trying to, in the clearest way I can see, to act as a responsible American citizen, true to the deepest & best traditions of Freedom & Liberty of this Nation of which I am so deeply a part!
 
I think, and my fingers shake and grow slow and deliberate as I type this.. there are so many good people locked up, dead because of the black market and resulting greed, so many families without members, because people were looking for happiness.. whats another word for a real high.. happy, yeah all this because people wanted to be happy.. end this its sick!!!!! Thanks DR the truth needs to be seen.
 
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> Nowadays you hardly ever hear one of those frightening San Francisco tales of a young girl shanghaied by a pipe-full of Opium in a Chinatown hop joint! Must be 100 years at that since a Southern Belle was raped and ravished by a burly black buckamoor coked to the gills on horse powders. The wild-wild west has been cleaned-up too - no more spaced-out wet-backs pumping the Sheriff and his men full of lead after one toke of the "killer-weed" & it must be over 40 years at least since an acid-head went blind staring at the sun!

> So - at least to judge by the stated goals of those who first sought to banish opium, cocaine, marijuana & LSD from popular consumption -
the drug laws we "enjoy" today must be a resounding Success!!!

> Of Course, equally dire consequences can be traced to the unforeseen aftereffects of the drug laws too. the popularity of all the above mentioned highs and others, the criminalization of millions of generally harmless and docile citizens, the wasteful public support of a multi-billion drug law-enforcement industry, the cost of keeping so many in jail, of teaching school children about the evils of drugs, rehabilitating addicts ( many times what it would cost to maintain their habits ), the loss of untold fortunes in federal revenue to the tax-free cavalier's who smuggle & distribute the verboten wares & above all, the ever rising cost of dope itself - all these are the direct or indirect results of our anti-dope legislation!

> Are these social traumas, intellectual chimeras & double-digit deficits worth it? Hardly - but throwing thousands of narcs on the unemployment line isn't a solution that will get many votes for the person who proposes it! Still, it must be allowed that these vexing circumstances were inconceivable to the people who first flogged our "drug-problems" into law!

> The best that can be said of the Hypocritical passion for "moral" uplift that motivated our forebears is that a lot of them were sincerely stupid enough to believe that it would actually do people some good!

> Yes, We are going on 100 years of Drug Prohibitation in the United States,
I don't say drug control because Prohibition is in No-Way control of drugs. You turn your back on control
when you prohibit something. Only by making drugs an open legal thing can government even pretend to control it!
Drug control is a euphemisim, it's "newspeak".

> Anyway, we have nearly 100 years of drug prohibitation in the United States & when the laws were initally concieved
they had in mind "taxing" ( ie. prohibition disguised as taxation ), the products of 2 plants; the Opium poppy &
the Coca-shrub. Then, by bureaucratic extension, this concept has been gradually extended to a bewildering array of
other substances - chemical substances added to the list, apart from the alkaloids of these 2 plants - with the entirely
unforeseen & unintended? result of illegalizing many hundreds of plants & chemicals. Nobody even knows how many!!!

> Given the current "legal" situation in the United States ( & many other places! ), the question might be better phrased
"what is legal?" & not "what is illegal?" Nobody can know the current legal situation of what is legal or illegal.
The laws are Constitutionally Vague. Nobody can be certain an "illegal" plant is not growing on their property ( there
are over 90 types of mushrooms containing Psilocybin listed in Jonathan Ott's botanical index in his book Pharmacotheon! ).

> The very ambition of extending these lists that were originally made to "control" only 2 plants that did-not
naturally grow in the United States has resulted in an unenforceable situation where any enforcement is by it's
very nature arbitrary!

> The Controlled Substance Analogs Act puts the definitation of an "illegal" substance in the hands of a police officer,
or local police chief or a district attorny. Whatever they decide to prosecute or investigate can be proven illegal
based on their suspicions or prejudices, since the law states that anything substantially similar, either in it's
structure or it's pharmaceutical effect to an already illegal drug, is by extension also illegal. As I said, the
question is what is legal, because so many different chemical structural types are represented in the scheduales
already and the "illegal" drugs run the full gamut of pharmacological action... What Drugs Are Legal???

> So instead of seperation of powers where you have a legislative branch which is in charge with making law
and a judicial branch which is in charge with interpreting the law and an executive branch that is in charge
with executing the law, we have all these suddently put in the hands of the executive branch, the police, the prosecutors.
They can decide what's illegal & interpret the law on a Whim - make it up on the fly basically!!!

> It seems to me the whole concept of Drug Prohibition is Insane! Asking the police to enforce a "crime" that does not
have a clear-cut victim makes a travesty of law-enforcement

> The enforcement system is based on a PERPETRATOR & a VICTIM. In consensual "crimes", perpetrator and victim are one
and the same. Whom are the police suppose to protect? Theoretically, they arrest the Perpetrator to protect the Victim.
With a consensual "crime", when the Perpetrator goes to prison, the Victim goes too. It's a sham that demoralizes police,
promotes disrespect for the law, causes Corruption of all types ( from bribes to cops re-selling drugs )
& makes arresting Real Crimminals more difficult.

> It's sad the enforcement of consensual "crimes" has turned one of the true hero's of our society,
the HONEST cop, into an endangered species.
 
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We can´t even keep drugs out of prisons, our most tightly secured instances. How can people think they can keep it from the population at large? It's a waste of time and money, and it makes criminals out of ordinary people.
 
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You're just preaching to the choir here man, at least to me. All psychoactive substances should be legal, no doubt about it, just like they used to be a 100 years ago (for most of them) before there were even barely any real problems associated with them, except racism, which people had a lot of back then, which is ONLY reason why these drugs are legal now, that and now the government knows just how much fucking money they can make off keeping these chemicals illegal. This prohibition goes against everything our founding fathers fought for, just like many of our policies on other subjects do nowadays *cough* Patriot Act *cough*

If anyone idiot drug purist comes on here and starts talking about how cannabis and 'natural herbs' only should be legal, I'm going to fuck them up, don't even get me started on how untrue that is. It doesn't matter if it comes from a plant or not, they are drugs, they are plants with essential drugs in them, that is all. Nothing wrong with the word 'drug' which is partly why people don't like to associate cannabis with it.
 
I think it's obvious to most everyone that it's time for a different approach, and it both saddens me and disturbs me that we still approach drug addiction and substance abuse as criminal offenses as opposed to a public health issue.

I'm crucified every time that I mention how many of the "consequences" of substance abuse are sort of artifically imposed in this country and elsewhere; for example, heroin addicts in other countries have places to go where they can shoot up safely and, furthermore, in one country in particular, medical-grade heroin is provided to the addicts so long as they are registered, enrolled in counseling, and so on. By approaching heroin addiction in this way, the financial consequences (of spending every dime on drugs), the health consequences (overdosing, transmitting diseases...) and so on can largely be reduced if not reduced entirely.

It's been said that many of these addicts, with mirrors in front of them to look at themselves, after suffering an overdose and being brought back around by the staff ... find that they experience an epiphany of sorts.

And I wouldn't go so far as to say that this is the perfect solution to the problem, but it's a different approach, perhaps a better one, and it's something to think about. But one thing is for sure, and it's that the "war on drugs" has accomplished virtually nothing, nothing at all.
 
^We're not, that's the point, and the governments all know this, and since they won't admit their wrongdoings, they turned it into something they can massively profit off of essentially.
 
RedLeader said:
The fact that we can't keep drugs out of prisons is a pretty good indicator that the War on Drugs can't be won. If we can't keep drugs out of a controlled environment with very few freedoms, how could we ever get rid of them in a free society?
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Now thats a really good fucking point!
 
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