Temat: say no to them or legalise?
Steve Jones:
Lidia K.:
I'm to keep them illegal.
I would think that the prohibition is good to keep it away from kids.
Unfortunately, though, it doesn't work in practice. Kids buy illegal drugs.
Kids shoot other kids over drug money, kids kill each other over drugs, kids create gangs to distribute drugs, kids end up in prison over drugs where they learn more about them and make serious connections, come out of prison and become professional criminals with connections, so now they are adults who will kill or be killed for drugs or drug money... its a vicious circle. If we spend half of what is being spend on the so called war on drugs on recovery centers, rehabs and prevention methods we will have a much greater chance of winning against addiction.
The day when we make drugs legal, would be the day where most if not almost the entire organized crime would receive a crippling if not a disabling blow (no pun intended).
Also to think that arresting street thugs and dealers is making progress is ludicrous. This is also a multimillion dollar business and anyone thinking that street level thugs can afford airplanes, boats and paying off border patrol is pretty naive or simply making way too much profit on this being illegal. The latter one being the case in most parts of the world.
For example, this is a study done over 10 years ago in California by the University of Berkeley (now numbers of prisoners in the past decade have grown substantially so we can most likely nearly double this number)
"California prison factories generate $150 million in sales each year"
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/98legacy/06-25...
and this is just a single state!
So why are drugs illegal? During the Chinese immigrant influx in California at the turn of the century, Opium dens were made illegal simply because they were a huge part of the Chinese culture... the state also made braids and traditional Chinese tunics against the law. The irony of the Chinese opium epidemic, is that it was brought back in by the white man to begin with after the country wide opium ban.
Next were Mexicans and the stories of Mexican workers raping white women after smoking joints became pretty popular.
Ecstasy bars were very popular in the states in the 50's, cocaine, morphine, opium and heroin were used as pain killers, anesthetics and cold remedies all through out the Civil War. In Russia you were able to buy cocaine pills in the 50's as throat and cough medicine.
Prohibition of alcohol in the states created Al Capone has boosted the organized crime to levels previously unimaginable. Moonshiners made fortunes... same families that used to hide in places like the Appalachian mountains to run moonshine business', now grow marijuana.
If you ban cigarettes or tax them so much that they will become to expensive of a habit it will spawn new black market so satisfy those who crave nicotine. It's already starting here in the US actually where you can illegally purchase single loose cigarettes "loosies" at some corner stores... or cheap cartons on the street.
So yea.. reverse psychology doesn't only apply to children ;)
Rafal W. edytował(a) ten post dnia 01.10.08 o godzinie 03:12
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