Can We End The War On Drugs Now?

(AP) President-Elect Barack Obama today introduced the men who will craft his new drug policy.

 

The White McHorse

 

First, heroin isn't scarce, there is plenty to go around at current levels of demand. Make it legal and demand will increase, causing an initial price increase, making anyone that can supply it even more valuable. The cartels in control are anything but a handful of enterprising thugs, the heroin trade is a huge global enterprise with very intelligent businessmen running it. Don't mistake street level dealers with the people at the top.

What will the cartels do when this becomes legal? Do you think they will simply vanish? They will be the people in control of the legal heroin trade and will get stronger, and will have MUCH more money to use to fund the same terrorists they fund now.

Look at Russia as an example. Who got rich when the state assets were sold to the private sector? The Russian mob, who now have a much stronger stranglehold on the country than they did before.

 

Oh my god, how I hate the above the influence ads. They are so stupid, I know plenty of people who smoke weed on a daily basis that have great jobs. They use weed in the same manner that many people use alcohol, which kills way more people every year. Instead of going home and having a drink, they smoke as a way to mellow out after work.

 

who says miracles can't happen on here? Me and F_B agree!

 

War on Canuckistan

 

Typical addictive thinking.

 

Not sure what is meant by this?

 

i'm guessing the nerd is saying you are qualifying the use of dope.

i'm also guessing the same person has drank and then jumped behind the wheel more than once.

 

That's kind of what I figured. I just have never seen weed as a terrible, horrible ill on society. Some other drugs yes.

 

i find much humor in the fact that the folks that hate smoke the most, are the biggest drunks on the face of the earth.

long live the liver.

 

I always found that kind of ironic. I knew a guy who was a college hoops player who, between shots of tequila, was tring to convince me that his body was a temple and that was why he would never smoke weed. Later that night my buddy said he saw the same player at McDonald's with like 4 bags of food.