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One thing you can say about the war on drugs except alcohol…if you want something to write about, this subject is always there. Of course, if you want to say something good about it, you might have to be creative. Or, borrow a comment from another blog. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
If you support prohibition then you’re either a black market profiteer, a terrorist, a corrupt politician, a sadomoralist, a wing-nut socialist, fake-conservative or a prohibitionist excrementalist. If you support prohibition then you’ve helped trigger the worst crime wave in history, raising gang warfare to a level not seen since the days of alcohol bootlegging.If you support prohibition you’ve a helped create a black market with massive incentives to hook both adults and children alike. If you support prohibition you’ve helped to make these dangerous substances available in schools and prisons. If you support prohibition you’ve helped put previously unknown and contaminated drugs on the streets. If you support prohibition you’ve helped to escalate Murder, Theft, Muggings and Burglaries. If you support prohibition you’ve helped to divert scarce law-enforcement resources away from protecting your fellow citizens from the ever escalating violence against their person or property. If you support prohibition you’ve helped remove many important civil liberties from those citizens you falsely claim to represent. If you support prohibition you’ve helped create the prison-for-profit synergy with drug lords. If you support prohibition you’ve helped escalate the number of people on welfare who can’t find employment due to their felony status. If you support prohibition you’re responsible for the horrific racial disparities which have breed generations of incarcerated and disenfranchised Afro Americans.
If you support prohibition you’ve helped evolve local gangs into transnational enterprises with intricate power structures that reach into every corner of society, controlling vast swaths of territory with significant social and military resources at their disposal.If you support prohibition you’re promoting a policy which kills our children, endangers our troops, counteracts our foreign policy and reduces much of the developing world to anarchy. If you support prohibition then you are guilty of turning the federal, state and local governments into a gargantuan organized crime syndicate, interested only in protecting it’s own corrupt interests. — The very acts for which we initially created governments to protect us from, have become institutionalized. Thanks to prohibition, government now provides ’services’ at the barrel of a gun. Neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them; the concept of a “Drug-Free Society” is a neurotic fantasy and Prohibition’s ills are a product of this psychotic delusion. Prohibition is nothing less than a grotesque dystopian nightmare; if you support it you must be either ignorant, stupid, brainwashed, corrupt or criminally insane. If you support prohibition then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.
There are many levels to the war on drugs except alcohol. The next story deals with the issue of using marijuana for cancer patients. In our efforts to restrict the use of cannabis, we are preventing terminally ill patients from getting relief from the horrid side effects of chemotherapy. ( The issue of why a terminal patient is receiving chemotherapy is another post for another day.) In the story linked above, a lady tells her doctor that she uses marijuana to combat the side effects of chemotherapy. The doctor threatens to turn her in to her insurance provider. We live in a sick society.