Re: Ending the losing 'War on Drugs'

znuybv wrote:
> On May 28, 5:41 am, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (B1ackwater) wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 11:49:51 -0700 (PDT),znuybv<tjwil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On May 27, 11:43 am, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (B1ackwater) wrote:
>>>> Won't end until there's no more PROFIT in it. No, not
>>>> drug-dealers profits, but overt and political profits
>>>> for US politicians, industries and law-enforcement.
>>>> All arguments against the 'drug war' will be losers so
>>>> long as the abovementioned profits continue.
>>> When the Black Surrender Monkey takes over he may just surrender to
>>> the Drug Lords too.
>>    Actually ... "surrendering" would DESTROY them. They
>>    rely on the illegalities for their profit margins. The
>>    end of the US alcohol prohibition pretty much destroyed
>>    the boot-legging industry - surviving only in backwoods
>>    areas where tax-free moon****ne is cheaper than the
>>    good stuff.
> 
> Legalization of drugs has failed in every country it has beem tried.


   And where exactly has legal drugs been tried? Unless of course you 
are going to trundle out those two bits of DEA spin doctoring, China and 
Iran, whereby they present what was an illegal prohibition black market 
to the historically ignorant and claim it was legal.

The last place that drugs were openly sold without restriction would 
have been Victorian England and the USA, and if you wish to claim that 
era as being a failure go ahead. Just about every historian worth the 
title will disagree with you.

On the other hand, if you look at the markers by which the 
prohibitionists set out their stall, EVERY single one is an unmitigated 
disaster.

  They claimed there would be

  * A huge drop in crime - quite the reverse has happened, and the USA 
to its shame now imprisons more people than any other nation

  * They claimed banning drugs would reduce addiction -again the 
reverse. Addiction is now much more prevalent than ever before in 
history. Why? Forbidden fruit always was the sweetest.

* They claimed that the promised wave of sobriety would bring about a 
new era in human understanding and an end to corruption  -yet our 
society is more fractured than ever before and every day new cases of 
corruption by drug money emerges.


   How long will prohibitionists keep on insisting that we must accept a 
cure that is far worse than the disease? Why do they insist on so much 
human misery? What does it prove?

  One of the few bright lights that may come out of the utterly 
desperate state of the Western economy at present is that government 
spending will have to be cut back to the bone, and more and more the 
utter futility of continuing with the WoD will emerge, while the 
attraction of the tax revenues will grow. The trick will be in finding a 
way that the big cheeses like Mario de Costa can step down without 
looking like utter fools.