The poppy fields profits are funding the Taliban Army. Taliban pays $12 dollar a day to each soldier to kill Legitimate government soldiers who the gov. can only pay $4 a day. Americans are killed by drug traffick money. DRUGS MUST BE LEGALIZED.
ONCE LEGAL THEY WOULD BE CHEAP AND WOULD CUT THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM. REGULATE THEM, TAX THEM, TREAT ADDICTS AND Win the War on Terror.
2007-01-19 08:14:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
End the "war on drugs" and concentrate on our real enemies!
2007-01-19 08:38:23 · answer #1 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily! I pay $125 dollars per month for my prescription of topamax, an anti-seizure med. Prescription drugs aren't cheap! The government would control opiates. It would probably regulate quality by turning it over to a drug company. A drug company would control it by keeping tabs on every stage of it, from field to shelf. It would become a controlled substance, and someone would need a script to get their hands on it. How else would you regulate how much they got? Because when you give the "man" control over something like that, he's going to regulate it. Why? Codiene is legal. Morphine is legal. Xanax is legal. Those drugs are addictive. And, to keep the average joe from being dead in the gutter and not making the government tax money, they are going to regulate it.
So, what will happen when it gets regulated? Black marketing. People will start to traffic it and get busted more regularly. People faking scripts, then sell it illegally and get busted. Those farmers will start making more money off what they can smuggle out of the fields. If normal people can't afford prescription drugs that aren't controlled, why do you think that they're suddenly going to start going down a straight and narrow path to get legal drugs?
2007-01-19 11:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don’t think that can be the solution for the problem, it is not only the drug which is fund Talibanize in the region, the tribal belt area between Afghanistan and Pakistan are the mean hub for extremism, if you legalize it in Afghanistan and stop this source of funding, Pashtun in North Waziristan will be starting other ways.
They also take Islamic taxation from local residents and recruiting Pakistanis against the government of Afghanistan, misleading people by saying that Americans have invaded Afghanistan and trying to divert people from Islam to Christianity, and many other arguments.
2007-01-20 21:17:39 · answer #3 · answered by Judge 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Funding the Taliban is not the only problems arising from those poppy fields. I agree, since restricting poppy field growth didn't work, maybe we should legalize opiates. However, those farmers would be in a world of hurt since not many other crops are any where near as profitable as the poppies.
2007-01-19 08:24:06 · answer #4 · answered by KS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Legalize drugs and treat the addicts, makes sense to me.
2007-01-19 08:27:21 · answer #5 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree, give every addict his daylie dose free of charge.
2007-01-19 12:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋