Had a special on marijuna (medicinal, cultural, judicial) last night and I must say I was rather fascinated by it all. Not to judge the shops, the culture or the people who are long term users, it DID make a point about Amsterdam, where you can smoke joints in a coffee house and pick your weed offered up like some dessert tray.
They interviewed one of the judges and she said that heavy drug use such as heroin and cocaine were way DOWN there compared to other countries, and she believed it was because allowing the citizens to own small amounts of pot and smoke it out in the open, and going after the hard drug pushers had actually solved part of the problem. I think she said that it was taxed as well, and brought quite a bit of revenue into the city.
As did other areas here in the US and Canada. It showed raids by SWAT teams armed to the teeth and conservationists taking on multi-generational pot growers on public lands in northern California. It's a war now where no one wins; I think we need to change the laws and penalties for maijuana use and possession to a misdemeanor, and go after the growers and traffickers.
And that should be 110 on the list after going after the Mexican drug gangs. Not much is being done about that.
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- Reality Intrudes on the Drug War
- National Geographic
- Prohibition NEVER works. It just makes sale more profitable. (n/t)
- It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.
- re: It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.
- Force should be used.
- Why? What is the reason for Drug Prohibition? None that I can see! (n/t)
- The same as not putting lead in cereal or arsnic in soft drinks.
- Why? What is the reason for Drug Prohibition? None that I can see! (n/t)
- Force should be used.
- Serious about stopping it?
- It's all messed up.
- Lee's against drugs? Crap, there's a reason to legalize them.
- re: It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.
- It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.