Controling Drugs and emptying jails
Submitted by bruce on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 05:10
Controlling Drugs
The great Prohibition era certainly should be lesson enough that prohibiting a thing only makes it more valuable and encourages crime to provide it. The main reason we have “drug crime” is prohibition of drugs. There is no control of the substance or distribution with prohibition. Drug cartel’s become the only distributer.
Control of a substance is accomplished by licensed distributers. Alcohol [now] requires licensed bars and bartenders. Abuse of alcohol has legal consequences. Pesticides and poisons are sold through licensed distributers. Pharmacies are licensed for Rx Drugs, many of which are far more severe than ‘recreational drugs’. With licensing quality can be monitored and restrictions can be placed on who can be provided the item, how much etc. Control can also be placed on use, types of use ie: medicinal, recreational, etc.
The hyped drug fear is terrorism [decisions made based on fear] to promote criminalization of drugs. We need to foster education to overcome this overreaction. Prohibition even prohibits hemp which would be a valuable crop for farmers, provides a natural resource for clothes, paper, packaging and many other uses.
Some of these prohibited drugs like marijuana have proven medication use in cancer, PTSD, glaucoma, many other health problems. Licensing would make these valuable medications available to those needing them. States set their own law on use and distribution according to their view.
I ask legislatures to sponsor elimination of prohibition type laws on drugs and write law to develop licensing mechanisms for all drugs including marijuana, LSD, opiates, all drugs. There have been many studies that this does not lead to a “gateway” for other use. Indeed as Netherlands has proven, it leads to reduction in crime and use of harsher drugs. http://tinyurl.com/ycx9vpz
Good working
That is the message from the people we have protecting America and keeping our kids from access to drugs. so full that convicted felons are on the streets,waiting for an empty bed in the county jails. This overview takes a brief look at trends within various parts of the Information on Drugs Abuse and Drugs Testing. It's a fair assumption that barring outside action, what happens tomorrow will resemble what happened yesterday. But with so many factors at play in the drugs mafia control for the trust, we should look at what influences of the industry in order to assess likely industry scenarios in the future.