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Hi

what i am trying to do here is open a dialogue concerning the harm/benefit of our drug laws on every level.

at the very basic level, what is the reason drugs are illegal? people believe making some thing "evil" like drugs illegal is theonly course of action... but its not.

what do they call it when you are arrested for drugs? possesion of a **controlled* substance.

at what point do our laws excercise control over the substance?

the drugs are all handled by criminal organizations that prey on the weakness of our government (police, port authority, dea, politicians, etc..)
who only stand to profit from them remaining illegal.

the narcotics importer bribes authorities or through some path controls the people allowing into the country, making for higher "tariffs" on the product.

this only creates a more lucrative market on a nnational scale. the violence and risk involved is as a result of what?

it being illegal. these dangerous people would not be doing this if drugs were truly controlled by the government.

on a regional level- these are the people getting the packages on a regional level to distribute to other middle men around the country. at this level the profit jumps drastically as well because you can cut your product to make it more profitable...

so now you have drastic profit to be made by reducing the purity and safety of the product as people have no guarantee of potency and the fillers can cause health problems, especially if injected.

then you take it down another level to the drug dealers in our community that desal directly with our young drug community. these people have to pay extravagent prices for these substances that can cause a health problem, addiction, whose root problem is a chemical defiencey,. resulting in addiciton, which then causes, according to the national authority on drugs, compulsive drug seeking behaviors. what route is taken to get their drugs?

forst you have to have money. where do you get your money at?

eventually you wont work ebnoguh or be able to work to support your habit so you steal or sell drugs.





amount of money spent on "war on drugs"-

percent of prison pop. for drugs or drug related crime (theft, violence fom selling it, etc)

police resources wasted that could be used pursuing tru dangers to society


street crime would be reduced if drugs were legal and could be obtained at an effective potency in premeasured doses to prevent overdose-

overdose deaths would be lowered to the rate from other prescribed drugs..

no drug dealers

our kids would not conform to a culture surrounding drugs which leads them into crime.

the only people who would stand to lose anything from the legalization of drugs would be the drug dealers, so they bribe politicians, police and others to create their own market,

the drug market is structured in much the same way the legal market is. the taxes are very high because they pay for police bribes, smuggling mehtods, and a variety of other things that would not exist if drugs were legal.


principally, druigs need to be controlled, but to do this they cannot be illegal. wrong though path.

basically i think the government needs to be the nations drug dealer, and society would profit from this.

what do you think?

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