drug abuse Options

[ryfitaDF]

i've had it up to here with everyone thinking it's so cool to get "wasted" and "trashed" and all the terms ,that if you actually listen to them, are the most self-demeaning thing EVER! i invite any drug users to give me any reasons why they do it. any good reason at all.

[ComradeRed]

DEA bullets are like regular bullets, only fired by DEA agents.

There are MANY well-documented cases of DEA agents overstepping their authority, often leading to the arrest, imprisonment, or unlawful execution of actual and alleged drug users.

Add on to that all the gang warfare that results from the illegal drug market, and one can easily tell that drugs do MUCH LESS damage than trying to abolish them.

Why does Marijuana cause more harm to society than cigarettes, even though cigarettes are the more dangerous drug?

Because prosecuting victimless crimes is dangerous in and of itself.

The only way to enforce laws against drugs (as well as other victimless crimes) is to violate people's legally guaranteed privacy. This is also something that can't always be done, thus it leads people to not trust the law. This leads to lawlessness and other bad stuff, as can be seen on the streets of many inner cities today. Moreover, we are crowding up our jails with people exercising their alienable right to their own body, instead letting murderers, rapists, and robbers go free.

Moreover, the 21st amendment of the Constitution specifically says that, In the United States, you have the right to produce, transport, and consume, ALL intoxicating substances. It is AGAINST THE LAW to pass laws against drug usage. The last time we tried that, it led to Al Capone and it changed America from the most law-abiding society in the world, to the one with the highest percentage of criminals. In 1900, a 10 year old girl could go to a store and buy heroin, and we had NO Drug problems whatsoever. Today, we do.

The governors of New Mexico, Nevada, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Maine have ALL endorsed marijuana legalization. Governor Schwarzenegger in California is also expected to pass legalization initiatives in California as well. Colorado is also having a legalization initiative on the ballot this November that is expected to pass. States are already realizing that the War on Drugs costs more than its worth -- that all it leads to is violence, family disintegration, brutal miscarriages of law, and MORE people using drugs. The Feds have to realize this as well, or they will continually become a more oppressive and more expensive government.

If you want to use drugs and mess up your life, that's your business. Not mine.

"I see you too build monuments to honor your heroic dead."
--Prime Minister Clemeanceau of France, upon seeing the Statue of Liberty during Prohibition.