A "yes" answer, is insane or at least irrational. Is it illegal because doing so is potentially harmful? If that be the case other felonies would be drinking a shot of clorox, brushing your teeth with ajax, slamming your head into a wall or slappping yourself in the face. These are other examples of doing harm to yourself only they have an added element of insanity because they will probably make one feel bad instead of good. None of this stuff is illegal though. So then, is the determinant for a felony making yourself feel good?? By god, isn't that what most of us try to do all of our life?? Some by running, some by bingo, etc. Unfortunately, some people are cursed with brain chemistry that won't let them feel good without outside help, be it anti-depressants, alcohol or other drugs like alcohol. Funny how alcohol was the drug that was arbitrarily deemed legal, when it messes you up more than most drugs do (trust me). I can understand making the "pusher" a felon, but the user?
2006-11-18 06:57:25 · 7 answers · asked by steve S 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
There would be no Pushers if there were no users. It is a Felony and rightfully so.
2006-11-18 07:00:10 · answer #1 · answered by mimi 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Drug use in the US was mostly ignored until stores about black men using pot began to hit the news. This Mary Jane it was said caused the black male to turn into a sex-crazed killer. The US promptly started passing drug laws. Now you have to understand that most drug busts are low risk operations. Yea I know the show up like SWAT but there is still not the potential for violence that there is in going after an armed robber looking at a three time bust. There were also huge amounts of money to be made fighting the drug problem. As drug enforcement became more effective, the price of drugs went through the roof. This rush of profit into drug dealing enabled street gangs that had been around forever to arm themselves to levels not seen since the last time we tried to wipe out a drug, which was alcohol during the 20's. Then new drug laws created heavily armed criminal gangs. We do not seem to learn much from history. About 5% of any given population is going to be a loss to what ever you got. No matter if, you look at opium smokers in china, gin drinkers in 19th century London or crank users in the US today. We should legalize and tax all drugs. Sell them at cost plus in the same manner we do alcohol and take all the money we waste on the "drug war" and use a small part of it for treatment and research. Let all pure drug criminals out of prison with a clean record. And watch gangs die on the vine. When you have to go back to switchblades and chains, gang living becomes a lot less desirable. Without drug money were you going to get that 9.
2006-11-18 07:18:01 · answer #2 · answered by oldhippypaul 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Our drug laws here in the U.S. are totally messed up. They still have not learned that Prohibition does not work. Let alone the classification of the drug The idiots in the F.D.A. have Weed in the same cladssification as Acid Coke and Heroin . Pot does have medical uses that has been proven Yet The Feds, refuse to recognise this fact and continue to harrss and aresst people in the states where it is legal for medical use Yes there is something very wrog with this picture. What peeves me the most is that a child molester generally receavs less jail time than a person busted for possesion of weed
2006-11-18 08:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by bisquedog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The war on drugs is a scam. Govn't could stop those drugs from entering the country if they REALLY wanted to. But they get lots of money and power with the whole WAR ON DRUGS. If this was a real war, drugs would won long time ago. I'm for the legalization of weed, but not the other stuff cuz they have a real negative impact on society as a whole. I've seen what coke, heroin, speed can do to people, and trust me it ain't pretty. If they legalize weed and tax it they could easily use the tax money to fight off the other drugs.
2006-11-18 07:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by HOVO 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Being of Libertarian leanings I believe the US's drug laws only encourage mobsters & other violent criminals to become involved in drugs. The war on drugs started in the 1920's decade & still is going on - it is a "war" that will never be won using the current tactics.
Drugs should be legalized, controlled & taxed heavily. The taxes should be used for REAL drug prevention & treatment programs which only the rich can afford now.
Our drug laws are a form of corporate welfare. The massive legal & business structures that DEPENDS on fines & forfietures would have to find legitmate forms of employment & stop stealing from the American tax payer.
2006-11-18 07:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by Bad M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
society is obessed with telling people what they can and can't do. a rational and logical person realizes a crime is commited when a second party is involved -- assault, battery, theft, etc. all involve two parties.
when the state decides its going to be a party and inflict its will over the other party then you have a police state -- as in the war on drugs the war on crime the war on terrorism. a very wise man once said nobody is free until we are all free. he was american and black and gay and ended up an expatriot in france.
2006-11-18 07:09:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just look at how the crime rate and violence fell after the first irrational prohibition was ended, and there's your answer.
Take away the profit streams from the criminal underground, and they won't be able to buy all the guns they have.
2006-11-18 07:05:20 · answer #7 · answered by Manny 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋