Answer for: What are Necessary Components in an Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs?
#8 Not consider addiction as a disability
I've heard of how the war on drug is racist and economic based but the so called "disparity" in incarcetation is based the behaviors surrounding the use, possession and distribution of drugs.
Don't get me wrong. I think the war on drugs is a failure like all prohibition and if I were President I would automatically pardon all "non-violent" drug offenders. Decriminalizing drugs would take out the dirty money that is the "root" of the evil surrounding drugs. Take away the big bucks and there's no reason to drive by on a school yard anymore.
We can't the consequences of drug use though. What may be safe in nature can become extremely dangerous when concentrated. The tetragenic effects of drugs, legal or illegal, is a serious problem. We certainly don't want our surgeons of airline pilots getting stoned right before we need them so there must be some type of control. Let economics rule the day. You can do them if you want but nobody has to hire you or clothe you, or feed you.
If we are prepared to deal with social problems that will incur in a manner that doesn't enable or encourage an unhealthy personal decision that society has to pay for, then legalization would work.
It is ridiculous that there are longer prison terms for the recreational use of drugs than there is for child molestation.
I completely appreciate what people feel about who is using the most drugs in America. The Narcotic trade is a billions of dollar a year business and that money is not being made in nickle and dime bags on ghetto street corners. Look at hollywood, Nashville and law offices and the big houses in the good neighborhoods.
Sung to the tune of Charlie Pride's Mississippi Cotton-pickin' Delta Town:
Picking coca leaves in the blazing sun,
The Gs all lay around, they got all the guns
Sure it's a living but it's not much fun
In Colombian Coca Pickin' Delta Town
Chorus:
The Spray Birds come in, they fly all around
The gunships behind em, so we dont' shoot em down
But let me catch that cullo' if it gets on the ground
In a Colombian Coca Pickin' Delta Town
Spending my nights in a two-bit shack
Turning Mother Nature into homemade crack
Then I load it on some donkeys in some gunnysacks
In a Colombian Coca Pickin' Delta Town.
Repeat Chorus:
More lyrics but too long for this forum.
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